I recommend Party Cannon.

The fact that they’re writing this at the end of 2016 is reminding me of Amelie’s always-timely remarks on pop culture, too.

I initially thought Abbott and Costello would end up just being the hands of one larger being.

I think the final design did three things really well:

Hmm, and I can see early nineties Frank Langella playing Pence, too. Checks out.

The New Essentialists? They’re more like the religious (well, irreligious but still super uptight) right, though.

Pence isn’t talkative enough to be a Cardassian. He’s an El-Aurian, constantly listening with that enigmatic smile, shaking his head at the absurdity of it all.

The philosophical trappings do nicely tie-in with vaporwave being a postmodern electronic music genre, looking back at past (often not-great) electronic and background (literally ambient, but not the sort of stuff that most capital-A Ambient music fans would listen to) music and remixing it. While I think most of the…

It is, but not as far as map colors are concerned.

The irony being they’ve brought what will be the most doc-mishandling (and probably one of the leakiest) administrations ever.

It’s worth noting that HRC won or came very close to winning a lot of sunbelt metro suburbs (outright won TX-32, where the Democrats didn’t even bother running someone for the House seat, came very close in a lot of suburban Georgia). Although the immediate post-election consensus was that the Democrats should have…

One of the things that bothers me in all this post-election soul-searching is that a lot of Democrats seem to be focused on why they lost the core Trump voter rather than the marginal Trump voter.

My favorite 1876-2016 parallel (and I’ve seen way too many of them) is the comparison between the two Democratic blowouts in NYC—Hayes got less than 60,000 votes in 1876 (at the time the population was between 1.5-1.9 million), Trump got less than 60,000 votes in 2016 (population of 8.4 million).

People are talking about the EC this cycle like it’s supposed to be some
kind of way for The Heartland (ugh) to gain
representation instead of it being swamped out by those coastal elites.
But that’s not really the case—it just happened that, in this cycle, the
Midwest+Pennsylvania was close and decisive. It’s…

Had Kerry gotten something like ~55,000 votes more in Ohio in 2004 the Republicans would have been in the same place as the Democrats today—a solid popular vote win “wasted” in solidly red states.

I feel like the Democrats really should be yellow—they’re really more a liberal party than a labor party.

Re-reading these comments in 2016…ouch

Re-reading these comments in 2016…ouch

I did not remember Forbes’s 2000 run. Wikipedia tells me he didn’t get as far as he did in 1996, though. Though Bradley didn’t go anywhere, either, so my friends and I were definitely not giving the primaries our full attention.

No, I’m too young. My electoral memories start with my friend and I arguing who would be the next president: Bill Bradley or John McCain (this is a true story).