This is why winning the Senate in 2018 is so important. The judiciary is so impactful, and unfortunately the Republican party is nominating and approving viscous idiots to the federal bench. Scary stuff.

This is either a very sarcastic troll job, or you need to take a break and sit this one out

This is why the Democratic senators didn’t want to have him leave initially. If the Dems fail to retake the senate in 2018, Trump’s Federal/Supreme court picks will continue to be confirmed for the next 3 years. You could be looking at a 38 year old Supreme court justice who thinks the Handmaid’s Tale is the goal for…

You’re absolutely right, Clarence Thomas (a man with a pattern of aggressive predatory behavior towards women) isn’t going to step down from his lifetime perch, neither will Republicans like Trump. They will do anything to keep power, and we are a Kennedy and Ginsberg retirement/death away from having a generation of…

I’m honestly curious why you hate him for being a ‘Bernie Bro’, because Taibbi generally doesn’t attack Clinton and her supporters like a ‘Bernie Bro’ troll normally does. He tends to focus his reporting (at least nowadays) on predatory banks, criminal justice issues, and systemic political and economic practices that…

I’ve met and worked with Nancy Beck when I was a member of the American Chemistry Council. I know the sources in the paper keep saying she is a smart and capable person, but these are lies. She is a vacuous idiot who once argued with me that the research studies on asbestos were flawed and shouldn’t be trusted when…

I don’t understand this impulse a lot of people are having on these comments sections to equate ones “legend status” with how much you deserve to get paid for doing a TV special. I’ll go tell Ed Sheeran he needs to take a pay cut because he hasn’t achieved the same legend status as Bob Dylan.  Amy Schumer is fairly…

Unfortunately, it is in fact illegal: Federal Campaign Finance laws (11 CFR 110.20 52 U.S.C. 30121, 36 U.S.C. 510) specifically forbid solicitation of foreign aid to an election. “A foreign national shall not, directly or indirectly, make a contribution or a donation of money or OTHER THING OF VALUE, or expressly or…

Not to argue with your premise, I think your spot on, but I did think it was funny you pointed out Wisconsin’s ‘watchability’ and they are responsible for half of the Final Four, Nat Championship game appearances from the Big 10 during this time span.

You could make an argument that the Iraq/Katrina/Exhaustion of Bush helped won the house in 06', and fear of Obamacare/growing economic frustrations cost Dems throughout the Obama years, ending in Trump. I know Russ Feingold was generally liked in Wisconsin until Obamacare anger and an off year election cost him his…

I’ve worked for years at a sunscreen raw material manufacturer. Rule 1, If you can buy Australian marketed sunscreens, do. They have the most effective and long lasting formulas in the world. Unfortunately, many of these formulas cannot be sold into the US because the FDA has stopped approving new raw materials for…

Wun Wun for the win here

Curious to hear what disasters have any climate models predicted to have happened prior to say 2050?

Separating characters is something that is done all the time in movies/TV/storytelling. Its like saying The Empire Strikes Back is the worse Star Wars movie because Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill only have 6 lines of dialogue with each other for the whole movie, and never see each other again in the flesh after their…

I definitely think some of the money would dry up as casual fans go to watch the pro’s and semi-pros, but coming from a school like Wisconsin, we almost never get a sure fire NFL/NBA player in recruiting. The closest thing we ever got to a 1 and done was Sam Dekker, who stayed for three years. If we shifted the talent…

You also run into the very real issue that if you somehow got all the kids who will or could turn pro and sent them to a development league, or the pros. The student base, alumni network and local citizens will still pay to see kids at their school beat the teams from other schools. The demand will always be there,…