No, and if you read it that way, you learned nothing useful from this.

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Nah, it's more than that. A man would have won the presidency having deliberately flaunted every conceivable traditional political rule. The effects of that are going to be beyond our conception right now. The most understated one is that traditional media would be dead. Literally every single newspaper of any…

As much fun as it would be for us to hall of mirrors this back and forth forever, let's not.

I am morbidly fascinated by the idea of a Trump presidency, both in how it would mean the complete and utter upending of what we consider traditional power structures (traditional news, political establishment, financial sector, unions, etc.). I'm also fascinated on how people, specifically traditional political…

"Perhaps this time Howard won’t have to wear heels."

1. It's a tradition that exists for the same reason Daylight Savings Time does; getting people to change long-standing tradition is like herding cats. I wish it would change, and we'd move election day to the first Saturday of November, rather than the first Tuesday. But it isn't sinister.

Gonna be a close one. This election, more than anything, is a referendum on whether Lena Dunham moves to Canada.

1. Voting is on Tuesday because farmers. Same reason we still have Daylight Savings Time. It's not a federal holiday because early voting exists and because we have a federal holiday the following week.

Maybe a few more back than that, to Richard Nixon, for the best comparison. Power mad, doctoring records, disaster internationally. Probably not as good of a bowler though.

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Why are presidential candidates doing stand up routines eighteen days before an election? Have things gotten so goddamn dumb that "Best Standup Comic" is a criterion for voting? Maybe in 2020 we can solve the whole thing with pie eating contest instead of primaries and such.

I imagine it's the response to Assange being cut off from the net.

I don't know why this the article that did it, but I'm finally done with this site. Seeing the title of this article, and then realizing it's not an Onion style parody, it makes me feel like a devoutly religious person must feel when they perceive blasphemy. But instead of religion, it's intellectualism,…

You're so smart. That's why you insult instead of engage.

There's no such thing as a rape culture. We live in a society in which women are less prone to attack, either sexually or otherwise, than at any point in human history. And things are getting better, not worse. The premise behind this book is dumb, and it's dumbing down any useful discourse on the subject.

You're last sentence is what I meant by people disliking the politics over the quality. Imagine if Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert, who are owned lock-stock by Viacom, ran for Congress (or Russell Brand or John Oliver for Parliment) as an anti-establishment candidate and you have the idea. It isn't a matter of right…

I like Waldo. I think people hate its politics and they're letting that bleed into their feelings about its quality. Without venturing into spoilers, the episode posits that people who want their politics edgy, anti-establishment, and amusing are destroying an otherwise solid, if sometimes flawed, political process.…

Ew, pass.

Where can I LEGALLY get the Christmas special on VOD?