"Whom." And here at sea level, I'm not sure "billies" is quite the right term, either. But it's interesting that fighting tooth/nail to hang onto the country's breakaway regions has proved something of a poison pill for its bluer sectors.

Well, I still want both you little shits off my yard.

It'd take a Constitutional amendment … which three-quarters of the state legislatures would have to approve. In that Axios scenario, how in God's name would it be in all those states' interests to undo the EC? If it's accurate, then any state that wasn't in the top 15 would be batshit insane to agree to such an…

I glowered dyspeptically the whole day after Obama won, and the whole day after Trump won.

Counterpoint: I couldn't afford cable in the '90s, basic or otherwise. (If I remember correctly, I spent the decade watching Braves games, Nova, and Antiques Roadshow.)

I'm no Trump fan, but let's be real: you've had your chances to let us go. Kindly decide what the hell you want.

If the Dems run a candidate whom moderate and conservative anti-Trumpers can vote for in remotely good conscience, Trump's cultish base won't be big enough to matter. (I fear they'll do just the opposite, and hand the idiot four more years on a silver platter, but while there's life there's hope.)

It's fair to say that, by Time Lord standards, the Tenth Doctor's life had barely begun before it was over.

I'm guessing he defines the "clued-in" kind as "getting bleached with regularity."

Poormouthing "Rella"? You've crossed a line, sir.

And to find Hot Girls in Love.

[Straps on 8-string/4-string doubleneck bass; fluffs up ruffed collar] Let's do this.

An adult is referred to as "Mr. Fripp." I swear, Robert and his half-measures.

Just for one thing, Loughner had had a weird fixation on Giffords for years before that flyer was ever printed. For another, no one ever convincingly tied his actions to the appearance of that flyer. When a court's deciding whether to bother hearing a plaintiff out, that sort of thing makes a huge difference.

"We might, no doubt, find it a nuisance to count all the blades of grass or all the leaves of the trees; but this would not be because of our boldness or gaiety, but because of our lack of boldness and gaiety. The bore would go onward, bold and gay, and find the blades of grass as splendid as the swords of an army. …

I'm not saying I like Palin's chances of ultimate victory. From what I can garner, though, her suit's unlikely to get laughed off and dismissed, either. She might not have a winning case … but she has a plausible enough case to tie up the courts for a bit and cost the Times its share of resources and embarrassment.

I'm not a Palin fan, and I'm close to a free-speech absolutist, so it pains me to say this on a couple of fronts: at first glance, whether or not her lawsuit has a good chance in court, it isn't 100% frivolous. It takes something to actually qualify as libelous under U.S. law… and the NYT still managed to flirt with…

Wasting perfectly good packing peanuts on union members? Where do I go to join the Pinkertons?

I should hope so. Swallowing it's just nasty.

The first movie I spotted Henriksen in was The Right Stuff. And Henriksen is the actor equivalent of a "fnord": once you notice him, you start seeing him everywhere, in everything.