I have to say that “Who would have been a better president: Obama or McCain?” actually is a bad question he probably shouldn’t have been asked, and if not for his inability to leave it at that, “I don’t want to comment on that” was a perfectly fine response.

One country, compelled by capitalism, by free people, with a vision, said we’re going to do this.

And I’m saying I agree . . . but that it is the rule for heterosexual pairings and not enough people complain about it for that to ever change. Ever. Really. In 100 years, a buddy cop series with a male and female lead will hint at romantic tension between the leads by episode 5 at the latest.

On one hand, I like that too. Some great buddy shows have been completely neutered for me because the male and female leads just had to end up together. X-Files use to be the gold-standard. But then they retconned it so Scully and Mulder were getting it on off screen, like, the whole time. Their professional,…

Do the people who to make fan-art/fiction tend to create gay/non-binary narratives, or do we just get shown a disproportionate number of these narratives compared to others?

Let’s be honest here, Mr Sessions and co: you don’t want legal marijuana because it would cut down drastically on the number of incarcerated individuals for minor crimes that you can use as legal slaves in for-profit prisons.

I’ve sort of been haunted by something I saw in an episode of Law & Order years back where the murderer bought plans to convert his “sport rifle” to full auto. They made it sound easy. Is this still possible?

I managed to get past the frustration of the top-down portions.  But I simply could not get my bearings in the first-person sections.  That pre-Wolfenstein way of doing first person was just something I could not get my head around.  I even tried making pen-and-paper maps, but somehow I kept screwing them up.  There…

I loved the original Valkyria Chronicles, notwithstanding the battle system was terribly broken. Valkyria Revolution was a $5.99 Gamestop bargain buy that is still sitting on my shelf unopened.  It’s like having Chris Brown ask you out on a date.  I’d be lying if I wasn’t curious, but common sense tells you there’s no…

The fastest amount of time that I’ve bailed on a game I paid good money for was about 45 minutes. That was Assassins Creed Unity. After playing all the way through the glorified tech demo that was AssCreed 1, the entire Ezio trilogy, and absolutely devouring Black Flag, I picked up Unity and just realized . . . I…

Donald Trump always reminded me of what it would look like if an alien, who could take any form he wanted to, came to Earth and wanted to blend with elite New York gentry. Like, you can recognize what he was trying to do, but everything is just a little off.

Pence is from that sort of religious extremist that believes everything is permissible to enact God’s will on Earth. In particular, he believes that God called him to serve as Vice President, and that Trump being an utterly incompetent, criminal moron was also God’s will, as a way of bringing Pence closer to the…

Louis CK at least put out an apology letter that expressed his regret, took responsibility for his actions and tried to recognize the role that his immense power-imbalance over the women he hurt played in enabling the abuse. Which seems to be a lot of what Anna Merlan was asking for.

...of course, that sort of falls apart when you consider her ice powers going out of control and almost destroying everything, but there’s something going there for a bit.

New Republican economics: economic growth is driven by the aura of the President. If the President is weak, it creates “uncertainty” and drives down the economy. If the President is strong, and has a very good brain, then it relieves uncertainty, and allows the economy to flourish.

I just don’t buy into the idea that this one, specific act of defiance is the one thing the press absoltuely must do to be tough on Sanders, while every other example of them pushing back against her, standing up to her, and pressing for answers to the tough questions is just them lying down and failing to do their…

Well, first, remember that the reporters in the Press Corps are not united. They come from a diverse array of outlets, including Fox News, and some less reputable right-wing outlets that the President loves. So what you want isn’t going to happen because some of them don’t want it to happen. Maybe all the liberal news…

Remember that a central plot point from the book 1984 revolved around Goldstein. Goldstein is painted as the insurgent leader of the secretive “Brotherhood” that is opposed to Big Brother and the Party. But its ultimately revealed that Goldstein, at least as far as the protagonist will ever know, was an invention of…

Then Sanders would say, “I believe I’ve been quite clear on this, as I said . . . “ and she’ll just give the same BS answer she gave before. And she’ll do the same thing for the next reporter, and the next and the next. And then she’ll chide the press pool for asking the same questions she’s already answered “quite…

That question has been asked, and it got basically bupkis and faux righteous indignation from SHS.