Word to the wise, that Senator Ruben Diaz (often dba. Rev. Ruben Diaz, Sr.) is a big-time homophobe and a lunatic:

I think the damage is much more insidious, and Thiel’s donations hint at that.

“Trumpster Fire”

There is a surprising resemblance to Captain Planet’s actual doppelganger, Captain Pollution.

Campaigns don’t buy ad time directly. There’s a whole ecosystem of consultants, whose job is to buy the ad time and then pass the bill and a fee to the campaigns.

Silly Paul Ryan, you can’t uninvite herpes

Bush is a Bush. He’ll be recycled into a Fox News pundit of some kind. Or get work from Breitbart.

Get a absentee ballot and go on vacation. Or don’t even take a vacation: tell your local elections authority you are going on vacation, and just get a absentee ballot and get it all over with.

There’s something eerily like the Borgias in all this…

Advertising 101: White background and accoutrement is a textbook sign of “we come from an industry that is very, very messy and we’re trying to pull a fast one on you.”

The shoulder pad silhouette was both masculine and feminine. It was a definite move toward androgyny in formalwear: after women made it into positions of power, but before gender studies has really taken, so fashion was geared to projecting an all-purpose “power suit.”

It’s not so much the basic reaction that gets me, it’s the twitchiness of it. Trump strikes me as incredibly tweaked out and perpetually overreacting to everything. Look at his (small) fingers in that GIF: he’s tapping the table multiple times as he wheels himself back. His reactions have reactions!

I think it’s a definite that the SCOTUS becomes more liberal on certain social issues (choice, etc.) —that’s just the passage of time and the lack of a fervent writer of reactionary opinions like Scalia.

You wouldn’t necessarily have to go to that extreme. Trump’s been rumored to have a pep pill habit (which explains the jumpiness and 3AM Twitter binges), and stimulants of all sorts --stuff as mild as decongestants even— can mess with the small capillaries in the nose and irritate them.

The most irritating attempt at summarizing the Obama administration by the Right has been the attempt to somehow insinuate that race relations went into the toilet because of Obama rather than because of the very deliberate choice to racialize the debate.

Trump looks like one of those guys who has about a dozen, “In days of old / when knights were bold...” dirty limmericks memorized as excuses for his conduct.

I don’t know that it was tone policing, so much as the Obama family knew very early on (as in, 2004, during the Senate run) that they were under the microscope. Remember that Barack Obama essentially owes his entire career to one colossal opportunity: Jack Ryan (who otherwise was an ideal blue state Republican)…