The substantial story, which we’re not going to get until the dust settles (and Clinton is sworn in motherfuckers!), is that the FBI and DOJ are in serious discord. I don’t think the heart of it is the Clinton emails at all; rather, it’s Loretta Lynch vs. entrenched career FBI agents left over from the Bush…

Really, one of the misleading things about lists in general is that indiscriminate ones generate more noise than signal. Think of the no fly lists, which have yet to produce meaningful results anywhere.

If he’s supporting Evan McMullin and John Kasich, I think there’s a good possibility he’s a Christian conservative.

There is a bubble effect for partisans. But just as big, I think, is that the popular vote really does not matter toward the outcome of the presidential race. It matters in terms of the legitimacy of the vote. It totally matters if you are a partisan of a candidate —because you have to crib together a mandate and help…

In many ways, I’d expect that the end of Trump can’t be done by the Clintons or the Democratic Party. For example, the Trump U. and philanthropy investigations handled by Schneiderman in New York are very limited —they totally got Trump dead to rights on civil fraud and minor violations of recordkeeping rules, but…

In my experience as a New Yorker, the “happy customer service rep” culture is this invasive part of gentrifying culture, imported by Starbucks sometime in the 1990's. I can remember that Carnegie Deli —the most New York of New York institutions— used to make sure to give service-with-a-snarl as a matter of the…

I’m agreed that there’s a double-standard here, and that rehab is no-frills for the vast majority. And again, I don’t defend Weiner in the least. And also, you are right that “sex addiction” is window dressing, and not any kind of rigorously tested diagnosis.

IMHO, this isn’t just a matter of being “no bullshit” but also a product of not being European by birth and not kowtowing to the old Italian cardinals.

Papal infallibility is strictly on high-order matters of church dogma, where there might be an even split among cardinals and he’s forced to be the deciding vote. That’s a dogma that’s really informed by the last time there was an even split in the Church, the 1850's, when decades of revolution had forced the papacy…

Cthulu doesn’t cause earthquakes for punishment, he does it strictly for the lulz.

Hetero pairings aren’t totally without seismic consequences. See also: King, Carole

I will be the last person to defend Anthony Weiner. At all. Aside from all the simple infidelity (which is mostly between him and his ex-wife) and the grooming of a minor (which should be investigated), Weiner’s career is one pockmarked with race-baiting that is not that far removed from that practiced by Rudy…

I have to agree that this is the substantial part of the story that keeps getting lost here. Trump has been shown to have a chummy relationship with Enquirer (re: planting rumors about Salma Hayek).

There is also the ideological power of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Beyond even the U.S. evangelicals, the Orthodox Church has traditionally held that disease (especially venereal disease) is a form of divine punishment.

It’s an apples to oranges comparison no matter how you slice it. But if you were to compare the number of trips taken on BART to the number taken on NYCT Subway, the sense of scale would kick in.

I checked YouTube, there isn’t a witty song to go along with a Squirrel Sex Club, but there’s this.

I think there’s also a bit of realism to this. It’s easy to forget that people serving time in jail have to be cared for —including in old age.

I’ve talked with a number of different activists, and “American Indian” has never been truly seen as offensive by any of them —though it’s non-specific and denies the complexity of tribal/national identity, in the same way “Hispanic” flattens complexities of South America.

The Dutch soccer team Ajax has a weird identification as a Jewish team (it’s buried in the sands of time as to how it got started), but as a result there’s a pretty horrid tradition of razzing them with a hissing sound and various anti-Semitic chants.