Hey, ladies, I hear they offer 10 weeks of paid maternity leave.  10 weeks!  What’s not to love!?!?!

Iran hawks are so bananas. There’s no strike against Iran that doesn’t end with us/Israel having to use nukes or an extraordinary amount of conventional ordinance to prevent them from retaliating by attempting to overrun the entire area. A lot of that ordinance would have to be dropped on the native soil of our allies…

Because who else would report breathlessly on the impending approach of both the singularity and the robot apocalypse?

A woman married to a medical professional she finds boring and saddled with a kid she doesn’t want who engages in deeply self-destructive behavior and is incapable of remorse or the sort of self-reflection that might lead her to realize she needs help. I feel like I’ve read this book before somewhere ...

But his ego and saving face are about his base.

Trump doesn’t care about what the majority thinks he cares about what his base thinks. Not even just “Republican voters” but more specifically the core basket of deplorables that delivered him the primary. Trump will never capture the votes of the Democratic electorate, and even though his base is not enough to win,…

My wife and I are trying to go cheap and super easy to prep for our Super Bowl fixings this year as our life is too insane to want to plan a meaningful spread on a Sunday night right now, so this recipe is perfect!

“I would never ever condone, or justify anything that he’s been accused of doing,” she says. “But locking him up in jail...it’s not the answer...he’s sick.”

The idea is that playing in front of a large enough audience on television generates a ton of promotional value.  It wouldn’t shock me the least if you could go back in time and observe a pretty meaningful surge in album/ticket sales following a Super Bowl.

I know what happened in Georgia. But it still doesn’t change what has to be done to beat voter suppression methods barring unified control of the Federal legislative and executive branches.

I mean, that’s one narrative.  Another narrative might be that Ocasio-Cortez was elected to represent roughly 1/450th of the population of America.  To the extent she wants to make policy that applies to the other 449/450th of America, she sure as fuck better network with the rest of them, and she will absolutely have…

I love the attempt at messaging. It’s not just “Typical Wall Design” or “Standard Wall Design” but “Typical Standard Wall Design”. He’s really trying to drive home the point that this is just a run of the mill sort of border security thing that every country should want on every inch of border.

Seeing a lot of Debbie downer nonsense in the comments here.

The same President who’s worked himself into a corner he can’t win from?

Wait, so now Tomato’s schtick is hating on Splinter? It used to be that he was just a generic Bernie or Beto Bro who was sort of indifferent to the writing quality of Splinter.

I don’t necessarily disagree, but we’re talking about the Politico headline here, not Splinter.

I’m sorry that your sweet darling savior is now a part of the system, but she is.  If you don’t like it, buy a gun and start marching on D.C., sweetie.

This is not “they’re bad writers and editors” kind of bad. This is “Do they possess the requisite number of firing synapses to both read and remember to breathe at the same time” kind of bad.

That Politico headline is right up there with ESPN’s headlines on articles breaking down Jeremy Lin’s weaknesses.  I’m sure it wasn’t intended to come across the way that it did but it’s so baffingly bad that it makes you question the intelligence of the writer and editors.

I agree over the short run that there is a meaningful difference. Over the long run though, I’m not sure there is. They both represent efforts to kill off the sharing of ideas that a majority of people in any given environment might disagree with by imposing steep social costs on those who share those ideas.  I think…