The cringiest thing I ever saw was a white person trying to give some food - possibly a burrito? possibly leftovers? - to a black person on a sidewalk, who responded "I'm not homeless man, I'm waiting for the bus!

Possibly a weird thought, but I suspect Lady Gaga will be a good deponent. She's put so much effort in to crafting personae, that I think she'd be good at saying exactly what she wants to say and nothing more.

Dragonocracy makes as much sense as the electoral college, and has the advantage of being easier to explain to people.

I specifically didn't say it was uniform, (because only a Sith deals in absolutes). I said "a lot" because that's been my (obviously subjective) experience. Maybe I just see the wrong people on Twitter.

No I get why it's a seductive idea - I think throughout history when The Generals take over they're often abetted by the desire for stable, competent government in a chaotic time. It doesn't usually turn out too well though.

I kind of don't think so. A country mostly functions by habit, and the norms are as important as the laws. Take away the norms, break the habit and there's not really much left. Donald is breaking many of the old norms, but I think that if there was a violent end - or a military coup - there's no going back to…

Basically a sloppy and inaccurate term coined for people to the left of the Democratic Party - roughly aligning with Bernie Sanders supporters.

Fair enough, I've listened to the radio play a lot more recently than I read the book, and this is kind of how I pictured them.

I think I remember Gaiman maintaining that a lot of the parts that seemed most like the voice of one of them was often written by the other.

Wouldn't be easy - Sandman is fundamentally digressive, and adapting it by paring it down to the central storyline would lose a lot of what makes it worthwhile.

I kind of enjoy when I get a random upvote on something I wrote 5 years ago.

Yes! Exactly this.

But actually commenting with Kinja is terrible. Something like three clicks to view a whole thread, and then your place in the original line is lost and all of the replies also appear separately elsewhere?

Really? I haven't been around here too much lately, is that happening?

That's kind of perfect casting, I think.

Nah.

That's where I was going too.

kubaton maybe?

Wow, I didn't know that. And it's kind of hard to picture.

I like that the Harvey Dent was modeled on 60's-era Shatner, as though he really was a guest star on the show.