It works both ways.

Oh, and speaking of justice being served, I just saw that Martin Shkreli, the douchebag hedge fund guy who raised the price of that drug 5,000% , got arrested this morning by the Feds for security fraud.
The day is off to a good start.

Attention indie hipster bands: This is how you take a band photo.

Episode 3: Mercutio invents the ladder.

Not if your target audience is teenagers.

Episode One: Building a Wall

I thought it did a fine job of tying everything up. I'm not sure what more you expected?

Yes, last months releases truly have stood the test of time.

New releases generally aren't blocked out of the end of the year lists.

"They didn't invite me because they were scared. Everyone would be coming up to me and telling me how great I am and how brilliant I really am, and ignoring the President. So they were losers and decided I shouldn't come."

You can console yourself with the thought that the people there aren't reporters. They are the pretty folks hired to read what the actual reporters write.

I hope they invite Trump so that Obama can mock him to his face again.

It certainly does address both the relationship to the machine, and your use of the Daley appointment to try and prove that Obama was closely connected to the machine. Rather it shows that Daley s distrusted as an outsider by Obama's long time supporters from Illinois.

You'll be interested in this article that discusses the distant relationship between Daley and The Obama inner circle :

I'm sorry, you are simply wrong. The endorsement issue with Mayor Daley was occurring at the exact same time. The support between both sides was luke warm and and tinged with suspicion.

Less than enthusiastically. As I said it was a fairly tense relationship. Daley was up for re-election as Mayor in 2007. Obama gave him only a qualified endorsement, noting that he was troubled by the corruption in the administration. Bill Daley on became Chief of Staff 3 years after the election, largely as an…

As to the "Chicago Machine" being behind him, that may be a bit of an overstatement. Obama always had a bit of a distant relationship with the "machine". He ran against Mayor Daley's former chief of staff in the Democratic Senate primary in 2004.

Our imagined future are all the movies set in oppressive dystopias.

Wouldn't a plumber posing as a dentist be inherently more funny?

Justice's Thomas's wife's role as a Conservative lobbyist certainly doesn't do much to create an atmosphere of impartiality.