No, I think she’s saying that only Democrats and Republicans have any claim to be the candidate for the Democratic and Republican parties, respectively. Independents who do not wish to participate in those party organizations are free to run as independents.  

Elon Musk : the Future of Humanity :: Joe Rogan : the Future of Humanity.

Is sending rocket-loads of people to Mars any different from sending rocket-loads of people into the sun? Both have the same effect on terrestrial overpopulation.

Yes, let’s all make fun of the genius who is trying to make the world a better place by developing a new polio vaccine that is far less effective than the existing polio vaccine, causes potentially deadly side effects, and must be administered in a zero-gravity environment. Oh, I’m sorry, did the boy genius not create…

“Hey, I’m Nat, and today lets all make believe I’m a   Actress  .”

Is there something about the correction itself (other than the need for it in the first place) that’s funny? The circled “roles” would’ve been exactly the right word, right? I feel like the circle is a red herring.

That in memoriam film would be BLEAK.

Eating outside is overrated.  

Why would anyone ever bother going to a live football game? I mean, this is the sort of drunken violence you can expect in the expensive seats. Imagine the nightmare of the seats that don’t set you back seven-hundred dollars a pop or whatever. It just doesn’t make any sense. Unless Joe Buck is announcing the broadcast.

When Harry Met Sally lied to me!!!

Becoming Matt Dillon was not the way to do it. He was probably better off staying Matt Damon.

“Please don’t mutilate my genitals!”

This was interesting and discouraging. Interesting, because... well, history is interesting, and well-written history is doubly so. And discouraging because, when reading about the horrendous treatment in the early seventies, I thought, “oh my god, that was only thirty years ago,” before realizing, no, that was almost…

Or is it three things being femininely contradictory by also being six things?! Is this some kind of tricksom lady math?! Mathsandry?!

In fairness, many people take a long time to mentally reclassify their parents as actual, three-dimensional people who predate the birth of their children and have rich interior lives of their own rather than just, like, their parents. Sometimes, it takes becoming a parent oneself. Until that reclassification happens,…

I saw it, but the only the thing I remember is a strong impression that it was shot in real time.

And To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before is straight up just a great movie. I think what Netflix realized is that although there may not be room at the box office any more for midsize romantic comedies — Kate Hudson ain’t putting butts in seats at ten dollars a pop like she used to — you if you give someone with talent a…

Who knew Skeletor had such excellent shoes?

The reason her book is $50 is almost certainly that it’s print-on-demand (i.e., not actually published by an actual publisher). Without economies of scale, the pricing is the same as you’ll find from from your aunt who wrote a type-riddled volume of extremely local history, “published” it by ordering a bunch of copies…

You may recall that being in the middle of one’s first term as senator is not a bar for higher office. (See, e.g., Obama, Barrack).