Great discussion! I enjoyed the Last Jedi quite a lot, but I do have one complaint from a craft point of view. Early in The Force Awakens, Rae makes the difficult decision of not exchanging the droid for food. If I never knew anything else about her, I would know that she is someone whom I want to succeed. In the Last…

Hasn’t Sarah Palin become essentially irrelevant?

A smattering of dill pickle, yes, but relish?

That is not as long as my daughter’s list.

Terrible people in that family, but it seems Diane’s sons turned out to be pretty decent.

Hey you kids! Get off my lawn!!

I agree. In the world of cycling fanatics, there’s no one more beloved than the World Champion (times two) Peter Sagan.

If it’s true that he acted upon the recommendation of the team physician, then disqualification from the Vuelta is sufficient. If he was attempting to subvert the rules, then a ban of a year is imperative. Sadly, there’s no way to know if either of these is true to a certainty, but the UCI must 1) make the…

I’m kind of disappointed the answer is not a bottle of scotch and a blaster.

I use two things: Accent Composer (https://www.kovcomp.co.uk/downl2.html), although I don’t think it’s been updated since the Johnson Administration and doesn’t work 100 percent of the time. I also use autohotkey’s rapidhotkey function. For instance, if I want the é letter, I press the “e” key three times in…

A display of true political power.

That is one sad looking devil.

This may sound like the comment of a kook, but I watched a guy shooting a shotgun, and with each blast his head snapped hard with the recoil. Multiply that times thousands, and you have to wonder if the use of high-powered weapons can also produce tau in the brain.

Yeah, I’m putting that one on Sanchez. He should have insisted on a replay. I’ve not always agreed with Girardi’s decisions, but they fall under the category of who-the-hell-knows-what-would-have-happened if he tried something else. My understanding was that Cashman felt like Girardi’s gung-ho style was unnerving the…

You write: “Girardi had some high profile fuck-ups.” What kind of fuck ups? Managerial decisions or something else?

In Scarborough’s defense, he talks over every single person he talks to on that show, and yet somehow he still doesn’t do it as much as Chris Matthews.

I’ve said it before, but one of the most painful things about this whole Trump business is the complicit people, and they are not all just white. I would hope that his racism would be a deal breaker. I am unmoored when I see it, from people who I thought were ok or seemed nice or I don’t know were fellow travelers in…

So what happens when Mike Flynn says that the Russians helped Trump win the election and Trump knew about it?

Trump has told us who he is since the Central Park Five. I’m not surprised by his idiocy. It worries me though that 32 percent of Americans support him no matter what. Ok, I’ve always known there were the 13 percent who supported segregationist George Wallace in 1968. But 32 percent? That’s a lot.