It’s too bad the Saudis are demanding that Qatar shut down Al Jazeera as a precondition to even begin talks to end their economic blockade of the country. I don’t think Qatar will do it, but it’s fucking infuriating that Saudi Arabia even wants them to.

NPR’s All Things Considered is the closest thing we have in this country to a real, honest, clear-headed nightly news program. They report the news without sensationalizing it, and they do not do that “let’s just have a liberal and a conservative shout at each other for five minutes” thing at all. They do have…

Reality TV. That’s how.

It’s because they’re brown, and therefore he does not consider them to be Real Americans™. There is no other reason.

LOL. The republicans figured that out in the 1970s with the Southern Strategy, friend.

He’s really not, which just makes the whole thing even sadder. I used to think of him as a pretty smart guy. Now he’s just elderly and confused and spends way too much time watching Fox News, so he believes a lot of stupid, paranoid, jingoistic bullshit. The good news is that he’s a Latino in Santa Fe, one of the most…

Yeah, I figured this might be the case. The dude’s been lying constantly over the last few years about the ratings of various programs and networks he thinks have slighted him in some way. He never misses a chance to rag on CNN for their supposedly poor ratings, for instance—but as I understand it, their ratings are…

Do we know if the NFL’s ratings are actually down, and if so, why? My dad claims he really is boycotting it over the kneeling. I tend to think it’s more that Trump has consumed the news cycle with his antics, sucking the oxygen out of other entertainment properties. People are so fascinated / transfixed / horrified…

Look, Stephen Miller just wanted to get back at that asshole Chad guy that used to give him wedgies and call him a “limp-dicked fucboi” in high school. Chad... is his country, isn’t it? Why else would they call it that?

Dude, the official Trump death count started during his first week in office when he started blocking refugees and mass-deporting people back to violent, war-torn countries.

Right? He sounds like a fucking comic book villain. And by the way, the lighting in that photograph is weird—it makes them both look a little “ethnic”. From other angles, it’s pretty clear they’re both white:

You fail to see how getting an ID could be a burden because you have never been in that situation and are not willing to place yourself in the shoes of someone who has. Your long list of state requirements is all well and good, but we are not saying every state has implemented voter ID in an unjust way. Some states…

Well, I’m not a housing policy expert, so I wasn’t aware of that requirement for Section 8. I suppose that just makes life even harder for people in this situation—no wonder they often wind up homeless! As for your grandmother, people seem to have very different ideas of what “impoverished” means. For instance, I have…

One must have an ID for many things in this day and age. You can’t get and apt, home, air travel, check cashed, liquor, rent a car, rent a hotel, get insurance, ect without ID.

I love that, to make their logo less racist, they decided to change its skin color from a somewhat accurate brown to a cherry-red fantasy complexion. Because the best way to make people forget that your team’s mascot is an offensive caricature named “Chief Wahoo” is clearly to make him into a literal “redskin” with…

A lot of the NHS’ ongoing issues seem to be related to the fact that it is single provider as well as single payer, something which obviously requires a lot of funding and attention from the government to pull off correctly. When you have a major political party in your country that would really rather see the whole…

This. If they created a national ID system and issued one to every single American citizen free of charge, and also did things like subsidize transportation to the place where you obtain the card, then we could implement voter ID requirements without the same racial disparities. As it stands many minorities don’t have…

Yeah, he’s probably going to win because Alabama just LOVES people who want to keep those uppity gays and blacks “in their place”. That place, in this case, appears to be “prison”—which I’m sure just makes Alabama’s voters love him even more. Pretty soon we’ll probably have people getting elected in the Deep South who…

Ha! No. At this point you’d either have to be insane, stupid or a total egomaniac to run for any political office more advanced than “school board member”. Even our local mayor’s race in Santa Fe (state capitol, yes, but this is a small town of 70,000 people) has been inundated with dump trucks of out-of-state super…

My current company already does this, but (of course) only for its senior executives and managers. I have been fortunate to move into upper management recently, with significant leverage over the business, because I possess a highly specialized skillset and have made myself indispensable in other ways. This is the…