I like Morse’s rhetoric but am mostly unfamiliar with his actual accomplishments. Neal is already talking about how he’s mismanaged the Holyoke school system and it’s currently being run by the state. I’m sure that Neal isn’t presenting that fairly, but I’m unsure of how or to what degree. I need to do some research…

Well, what were you expecting him to do? Condemn white supremacy? 

In his defense, that actually was his highest-quality contribution ever to his show, or discourse in general. 

That’s what happens when you build your garage in Flavor Town.

I’ll admit that it was a long time ago, and I never worked on it myself or even so much as cracked open a Hayes manual, so you absolutely could be right and probably are. Is it possible that the cruise control gets its information somewhere else, then?

For certain older vehicles, it definitely is not safe. I totalled a 1990 Dodge Ram “Church Van” (I was the one guy in my band with a good job, so I had one that I also used for personal transport since I mainly took the T anyway) many years ago when driving with the traction control on in poor conditions. I mistakenly…

At what point did anyone try to argue that slavery was racist because the slave owners were motivated primarily because of racial animus and not because of profits? If you can find that person, please inform them that a 12-year-old boy with autism spectrum disorder who somehow got elected to Congress has a bone to…

It’ll be changed if anyone can actually buy one for that much. At first I was really excited, but my next thought was, “holy crap, the dealers are going to kill people with the markup." Those repulsive little shitweasels are going to take soooooo much of our money. 

It sounds like this is “Step 2" of the voter ID law strategy: first you make it illegal to vote without an ID, and to anyone who complains that this will disproportionally affect nonwhite citizens, you replay with something to the effect of “well nothing’s stopping anyone from getting an ID if they’re a citizen.” Once…

That gif reminds me of the “I Think You Should Leave” sketch where the guy gets caught asking the waiter to harass his date about nachos.

Exactly the point I was going to make. Anybody else remember when GM’s cars were coming out on top of these J.D. Power initial quality surveys but they were still hot garbage and would essentially disintegrate before hitting 100K? I don’t think that still happens but it sure did up for GM, up to around maybe 2000 or…

Oh. boy. Wow. That thing just smells like a better world than the one we live in.

Come on now, being rich doesn’t automatically make you a terrible person! For that, you really have to be born that way.

I’m sure they’re not wanting for targets, but I wonder if they’ve given any thought to supporting a primary challenger for Richard Neal.

Go to their computer when they’re up from their desk and adjust their microsoft autocorrect options to always replace some common word with something embarrassing or vulgar. That’s my go-to.

Maybe they’re weapons?

It’s becoming increasingly clear that those who benefited from the neoliberal consensus of the 90s and 00s, having been (at least temporarily) kicked out of the GOP, are looking for a home and I’m hoping pretty desperately that the Democratic party isn’t going to offer it to them. They’ve got the populists divided,…

I wonder if maybe the abruptness is whole point, to drive home the idea that any perceived liberator is really just the next dictator, no matter what you might think you know about them. That the heroic narrative, as a concept, is fundamentally bullshit.

Cam and Mitchell look weird with glasses.

Most of the criticisms I’ve read about this episode online seem to boil down to, “not enough major characters died!”