My theory (for older people at least, aka my mom) is that in light of the vast amount of information available today, the world no longer fits into the black and white, us vs them worldview they were brought up with (the world vs communism, etc). Younger people tend to realize that the world is an interconnected place…

If you’ve ever seen him on the chat shows, he’s very politically aware, though sometimes a little cagey about displaying that.

As someone who has a philosophy degree, I approve this message.

To make Mythopoetic Stew:

You can have mental issues worthy of sympathy as still be a grade-A a-hole.

This sentence sounds like it was written by a man who wants us to be impressed because he knows a bunch of big words...

I keep thinking back to my high school English teacher. If I had turned that in as a sentence in an essay, he would have handed it back to me and said “You like to show off? How about you diagram this sentence for the class.”

Does Trump think leaning forward is slimming or something? Because he’s always doing that and it looks super awkward. Like he shit his pants.

The director of “Rogue One,” Gareth Edwards, has stepped into a mythopoetic stew so half-baked and overcooked, a morass of pre-instantly overanalyzed implications of such shuddering impact to the series’ fundamentalists, that he lumbers through, seemingly stunned or constrained or cautious to the vanishing point of…

Right? I keep looking to the East but there’s no sign of Gandalf anywhere.

Everything is a joke and none of it is funny.

If only Trump were subject to rules. Any rules at all. Like wtf is this shit?

I support your right to hate Seinfeld. It’s not for everyone. But can we at least acknowledge/celebrate that Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s character was a single woman with no real interest in getting married, who had sex all the time with no dramatic consequences, and who had plotlines associated with her actually having a…

#Kris-the-Needlessly-Defiant2020

Is English your first language? Do you know what non- violent means?

I interviewed the winner for economics at MIT a few hours after he’d learned he won. He was stunned and beautifully gracious. He spent about a half hour explaining to me, an idiot, his field of study.

I think it’s ridiculous that he’s getting the award, but I’m glad he didn’t show up.

So, he liked the crime bill, but he didn’t like like it?

To create a legally binding, individual document after vetting a person’s record to make sure they are not letting murderers out (for example) and then getting it to the president for approval, yes. But you go ahead and be condescending anyway.

This is Steve Bannon, close debate: