Truly, a casualty of the fast moving and ever accelerating pop culture cycle is that we now how tribute acts and direct ripoffs running alongside their inspiration.

It’s absolutely something he would have heard in a movie and thought sounded badass.

It’s what people care about. The “ratings suits” (I think you meant “network execs”) put whatever gets eyeballs on TV. If people gave a shit about the debt or the nuts-and-bolts talk of Obamacare, that’s what would be front and center.

You know, when they send GOPers out to defend the NRA, they should really send ones who look like they maybe actually handle guns on the regular. There have to be a few.

Elon Musk is the proto-Tech-Bro. He’s an asshole who’s trying to build a moon colony for him and all of his other tech bros to live in once he decides Earth is obsolete and he distracts people from that by creating news about LOL LOOK AT THIS FLAMETHROWER.

That’s why Dowd quit and he nearly said as much.

Easy to explain. The NRA has money. The other side does not.

Well, that’s really the point of all this.

I think not wanting to live like mole people for a large portion of the year simply to accommodate largely imaginary sorghum farmers is a perfectly valid reason.

This. For once and perhaps only once, I want to follow Florida’s lead.

Well, I suppose it’s never TOO early for the idiot wing of our side to start Hillary-ing 2020 away. Trump 2020!

Big club and we’re not in it, remember?

Also, while I don’t know exactly how this works (sweat-wicking black magic?), there are an increasing number of athletic shoes designed to be worn sockless. I know Nike and New Balance have entire product lines like this.

To that end, it’s no shocker that so many GOPers are retiring. Why go through all that fucking effort and possibly lose anyway when you can just cash out, head to Fox News and become an Angry Talking Head who gets paid handsomely to bitch about the Benghazi Soros Obamatard Liberal Mainstream Media?

I mean, it’s not surprising. Many of these people have essentially been living as though they were elected local-emperor-for-life because no one was ever challenging them. Now that they actually may have to get up and try, even if they don’t have to try TOO hard (like Cruz), they don’t know how. It’s like getting back…

It has less to do with “the gun control narrative” and more to do with Rule #4 in the Gawker Writer Handbook: all law enforcement officers are crazed, murderous thugs.

It has less to do with “the gun control narrative” and more to do with Rule #4 in the Gawker Writer Handbook: all law enforcement officers are crazed, murderous thugs.

I know when I think of somewhere light that doesn’t take itself that seriously, I think of the home of SXSW, the only more pretentious gathering of shithead hipster know-it-alls than a TED talk.

It’s probably cheaper, long-term, to just BECOME a politician rather than buy one and Trump has amply demonstrated that there IS an audience for hatred, bigotry, racism, sexism and a shameless unleashing of all the worst parts of ruthless, unchecked, consumptive capitalism under the guise of “making things better for…

I mean, a LOT of guys are absolutely braindead when it comes to sex.