Yeah, you’re right... to a point. I used to work in news, and I brought up the fact that news stations do “human interest stories” for exactly this reason—to inject a bit of hope and light into their broadcasts. But she seemed to be saying that human interest stories should make up most of the running time; that “hard…

Yeah, I would increase the term in the House to 4 years; maybe 5. I’d also allow the President to dissolve Congress and call a snap election, much like figurehead Presidents and monarchs in other countries. Keep in mind that in such a system, the President would (at least in theory) be a nonpartisan official. If we…

I keep wondering when the accusations against him are going to come out. When I saw his face on the front page just now, before I read the headline, my first thought was “It’s his turn, right?” But I dunno. To be throwing himself into the fray like this, he must either be super confident that he’s got no skeletons in…

You laugh, but that’s what my girlfriend actually said when I asked her why she never pays attention to the news. She said “Why don’t they report on all the people who DON’T get murdered?” She is so smart, I swear, but that has to be one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard in my entire life.

In my area (Santa Fe / Albuquerque metro), the typical lineup for the local NPR station features the aforementioned Democracy Now, which is as lefty a program as they come, as well as Latino USA, Native America Calling, This Way Out (an LGBT radio magazine), Living on Earth, and local programs like Peace Talks Radio…

In my ideal system, the “executive” would be the Speaker of the House, who would be responsible for putting a Cabinet together and would have as much power as we wanted to give him. The President would become a ceremonial figure akin to the Queen of England, as it is in Germany and lots of other places with…

The system is designed to move slowly, and for good measure. Drastic change, back and forth is typically a bad thing respective to social order, economics, health and safety, etc.

I don’t listen to This American Life, because I find Ira Glass’ voice to be incredibly irritating and the program itself bores me to tears. But All Things Considered is just about the last good nightly news program in America, as far as I’m concerned. Judging by your comment history, you probably wouldn’t like them…

Well, that too. It’s all included in the Friends of Putin package deal.

Boy, your username sure does suit you well.

If they ban him, he’ll just make an account on Gab. Then we’ll get to hear about the latest thing the president “gabbed” from the toilet at 3AM, and that platform will get a huge injection of users and funding.

Those things are a good start. I think we should also make the presidency a ceremonial figurehead position, eliminate the Senate, and turn the expanded House of Representatives into our “Parliament”, with the Speaker of the House as our “Prime Minister”. It would also solve a lot of problems if we elected those…

I’m not making a moral argument here. I’m saying that this thing that people do, where they combine their enemy’s name with some kind of silly insult word, is fucking dumb. It is the kind of shit a child would come up with, a “sick burn” that would get a lot of laughs in a 6th grade classroom and should never, ever be…

Yeah, they do. That doesn’t change the fact that malformations like “rethuglican”, “demoncrat”, and so on are fucking infantile and should be beneath us.

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Thanks for the information, friend. By the way, how’s that meth treatin’ ya?

I want Donny to be the first president that Congress strikes from the official record. Take down his portraits, revoke his pension and Secret Service protection; start calling whoever succeeds him the 45th President. I don’t care if they have to pass a constitutional amendment to do it—get that shitstain out of there.…

Except... we have all of those things you just mentioned except for “matter compilers” (whatever that is) and space colonies. Flying cars are easy enough to make, and we have numerous working prototypes. They’re just dangerous and impractical. Space colonies are on the way, though don’t be surprised if the first ones…

Maybe, but they haven’t had all that much time to evolve away from their wolf-like reliance on meat.

I heard about that, which is why I buy the “fancy” dog food that contains no corn and costs $60 for a big-ass bag instead of $30. It has a lot of meat in it, and some plant proteins, and it keeps my dogs pretty healthy. It’s just a lot harder for dogs to get all the protein that they need when their food contains no…