I don’t think they even know anymore. They committed almost three decades ago to total, unreasoning obstructionism and they’ve become completely unmoored from any kind of governing ideology. They’re against small government except when they can use it to punish their enemies, they’re in favor of religious expression…

I’ve seen Street Fighter. He got off easy.

Yes, my mistake. Clearly, you have a great answer for the points I raised, and I’m so glad you explained it so clearly. I don’t know why I ever thought that you were being judgmental about women whose sexuality doesn’t conform to your personal standards! Thanks.

Got it! You support the right of women to make their own sexual choices and to have full bodily autonomy... so long as they’re the choices you agree with. SO FEMINIST.

How much research have you done on how safe it is?

“I think it’s a reasonable assumption” is basically just code for “it validates my preconceptions and I don’t want to look past those”. Workplace sexual assault is common, and treating it as a problem for sex workers is dangerous not just for sex workers who risk having their profession further stigmatized but for…

“In America, everyone does whatever they want. Society did break down. It’s terrible, and it’s great. You only look out for number one, scream at whoever disagrees with you. There are no bees because they all died, and if you need surgery, you just beg for money on the internet. It’s a perfect system.”

If one of them is saying the other is a sinister banker who secretly runs the world’s media, FUCK YES.

“Are you a lithium-ion battery pack? Because you charge me up.”

You invoke “due process” as though Franken said one thing and his accusers said another. But in fact, Franken admitted that everything they said was accurate, apologized, and resigned because he believed that it was the right thing to do. This wasn’t a “he said/she said” situation, this was a “she said, he agreed, he…

And, you know, his interviews.

Every time Deadspin does an article on the Jaguars, I read it for the Good Place references in the comments. I’m never disappointed.

Well, it’s because nobody looks good in yellow. I thought we established this.

THIS. So much this. If a guy like that is being good to you, it’s only because he’s decided you have more value as an alibi than as a target.

Except that at least when Moffat wrote it, “wibbly wobbly timey wimey” wasn’t just a handwavey joke. Moffat was saying that time wasn’t like water, where removing an event from the past would cause the tower of events on top of it to tumble and crash; it was more like gelatin, so you could make changes to the past…

Does anyone else get the impression that Jeremy Renner is actually a really horrible person to work with? I mean, he got all these major roles in big, long-running, tentpole franchises (Bourne, MI, Avengers)... and they just keep finding less and less for him to do until he’s no longer contractually obligated to…

I thought it was pretty good. I liked the villain and his plan--there’s some real attempts to make the connection between “supernatural activity increasing in New York” and “scientists study ghosts” more than just a coincidence, which was nice. And as just about everyone has said, Kate McKinnon was absolutely riveting…

It violates the Emoluments Clause for him to do it with other people’s campaigns. It doesn’t if it’s his own. The laws about campaign finance are fucking horrifyingly lax.

Is it just me, or is putting out ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ on Christmas the most ludicrously inappropriate choice of dates ever?

I think they should all stop turning out... except Jim Acosta. “Oh, hey, looks like we forgot to send somebody again, Sarah! Sorry. You just talk to Jim, I’m sure you two have a lot in common!”