Soooo … DS9 or some inferior Trek?

Beyond the issues of fairness, holy heck she looks good cosplaying. If I were an eccentric millionaire I'd comp her convention visits.

To me it's the simplest thing in the world. If someone doesn't like being called "Smitty" or whatever, you have a choice: do you respect their wishes because they are a human being, or do you ignore their wishes because you are a giant a-hole?

That's right it wiil all be your fault.

Good point — thugs look tough as hell until they're up against someone who really knows what they're doing.

"Have Gun - Will Travel" blew "Deadwood" out of the water. No, people didn't say "cocksucker" even a single time, and in the Calamity Jane episode there were no lesbian undertones. But if you can get past that you might like it.

"Failed in Vermont but not in Canada? Japan? France? Etc"

It's slowly dawning on me that I'm a freak because, when I vote, the question I am always answering is: which option is more likely to improve society? That explains a lot of why I simply cannot understand the choices a lot of people make on Election Day.

"He doesn't think I know what the terms mean academically. I know what they mean on paper and in real life."

Well right. If he's going to accuse Democrats of being neoliberals, and neoliberals are whatever he chooses to define them to be, it's not discussion, just circular definitions.

Nope, Neoliberalism is about laissez-faire capitalism. Doesn't describe Hillary or the Democrats at all.

Don't even get me started on "corporatism". Only the Left could take the term that describes the countries they admire the most, and repurpose it to mean everything they hate.

It's long past time today's Left acknowledged something fundamental: we benefit a lot from corporate America. All the creature comforts we have, all the luxuries we have ready access to … we have those because big businesses are creating the products we demand. Now, that doesn't mean that everything corporate…

Well I'll spoil it for you: Michael thought she was a free spirit (like Dharma of "Dharma and Greg"), but it turns out that "MRF" means "Mentally Retarded Female" … but because she had a British accent, Michael never noticed.

Did you catch season 3 of "Arrested Development", with Michael's British girlfriend (Charlize Theron) whom the British spy agencies had classified as "MRF"?

Some of the discussions the Left is currently engaged in demonstrate the most paper-thin understanding of issues. And I have discovered, to my sorrow, that the Left has far less interest in fact-checking than they really ought to. Russia may have disseminated a ton of fake news about Hillary, but you know what? …

Congratulations! And you know what? You haven't even hit the best years yet! You're probably going to struggle more keeping pounds off, but in exchange for that you're likely to be generally more capable of dealing with anything and everything life throws at you. That is a fantastic trade-off and I'd take it any…

That was a groaner. The thing is, Bernie knew he was peddling snake oil all along: single payer crashed and berned in Vermont in December 2014 because it was going to be hella expensive, but Bernie never breathed a word of that on the campaign trail.

Good point. I was drawing the line, such as it is, at the point of deception. Demagogues lie; populists don't. But since demagogues are going to be telling the truth at least sometimes (unless one is living in a perfectly just system), there is going to be overlap.

The line between demagogues and populists is narrow, that's for sure.