Therefore, the purpose of the Advisory Committee is to devise new means of controlling workers. Or to alert them when the workers pick up the pitchforks and torches.

“But it was kind of the policies that they wouldn’t let go through of why they lost.”

Precisely the same logic I back filibusters - so long as the rules get returned to a state where EVERYBODY faces risk if it gets used. As long as Congress can make it painless, it’s useless - and that means one more check and balance goes out the window..

All these years, some of the wilder Harlem Globetrotters routines were actually legal basketball. Who knew?

Since he’s kickstarting the Cold War, he still wants his big weapon show military parade.

Lt. Governor’s office in Texas has been “Rightwing Political Asshole” ever since Rick Perry took the job in 1999.  Not that the Governor’s office has been any better.

I understand the problem. I understand why it’s a problem. I also understand why it’s a moral and ethical imposition.

“ All of this won’t mean a hill of beans if other countries don’t drastically reduce their emissions too”

That’s precisely the problem. If “the conversation has to start somewhere,” why the hell start it in a place where everyone has a political agenda, everyone who put them there has a political agenda, and, by their own admission, they have decreasingly reliable access to genuine experts in the topics. There’s no way…

The problem isn’t the filibuster. It’s that (Since the 70's), at the beginning of each Senate term, the majority party can modify the rules for cloture (overriding a filibuster and preventing the bill from being raised again) to their own advantage. Combined with the “two-track” option, which allows the Senate to…

“What’s necessary is for people to understand—in front of everybody but especially in front of 13- and 14-year-old girls—that you need to control your temper, control yourself.”

In college, a lit class forced me to read Madame Bovary. I hated it so much that I literally told the instructor that it would be the very last book I would every read that I didn’t actually WANT to read. It was. (I read more now than I ever did in college, but only stories I enjoy.)

“Black Trump supporters”

I can’t really back those positions, either. I’m a firm believer in the Democratic Republic, as opposed to pure Democracy, which is basically mob rule with very few limitations. Giving the system their own institution where each state is represented vs proportional populations helps balance rural vs urban interests,…

I disagree. Bring back the filibuster to its original rules. What you need to get rid of is the old “Gentleman’s Agreement” which automatically tabled bills if a filibuster was threatened. This gave the minority the power to sidetrack a bill without actually stopping any and all progress, hopefully to allow the…

You think his bipartisan tone is going to last thirty minutes. That’s funny. I’d wager nine minutes, at most. Less than thirty seconds until he tells his first provable lie.

There’s not a whole lot of times I specifically choose to rewatch a movie I’ve seen many times, but there are films that I stumble into on cable for the dozenth time and have no problem just letting them play in the background, and will ultimately be caught up and watching with full attention before the end of the…

Once again, I will point out that in the 2016 campaign, every single time Trump used the phrase “believe me!”, he was deliberately and knowingly lying out his ass. He lied plenty of other times, but that particular tell was incredibly easy to spot.

Of course negotiations are a waste of time. If you’re actually negotiating, that means you don’t get absolutely everything you demand. If you’re not going to get what you want, make certain that no one gets anything at all. This has been GOP standard procedure for about a dozen or so years now. How long has…

Oh, I’m sure that discussion would be outlawed.