Since "ye" as an article is literally just an alternative spelling of "the", you shouldn't affect any special pronunciation: however you normally pronounce "the" is the correct form.

Clinton is ahead by only 2% points in the FiveThirtyEight national aggregate, by 3 on RCP, and 2 in today's Washington Post poll. Yeah, there have been polls showing her further ahead, and Pollster has her up a bit more, but 4-6 points doesn't seem like the most accurate estimate of where the race currently stands.

Trump has been a TV host for over a decade; don't underestimate his ability to adjust his style to different formats. I agree that Clinton should try to pin him down on specifics and the emptiness of his policy proposals, but I worry that simply by projecting confidence, making vague noises about "the best people"…

Well, if it's a choice between that and a justice system he's decided is fundamentally unjust… I mean, it's a moral dilemma, but that's why it's a drama.

Well, now that you've gone back and edited your posts the disagreement is not so clear any more. I'm not sure what an "in-built dripfeed" is, so I can't say whether I believe in it or not.

A pencil that has lasted twenty years and that serves a central role in his working process. I think the person to make fun of here is you. :p

Dude, so much of comic book science is trivially contradicted by basic physics, medicine, or plain common sense. (Just take The Hulk and conservation of mass, for example.)

The story itself tells us what kind of world it is set in. Lucy, evidently, is set in a world where psychic powers are theoretically available.

The article explicitly aligns itself with Marx and Lenin against "moderate" leftism. Pointing that out is in no way dishonest or unfair. If you want to call it red-baiting… knock yourself out, I guess.

I do recommend reading the piece you linked, though: an unapologetic Marxist-Leninist call for revolution to overthrow capitalism. I'm quite happy not to be considered an ally in that battle, thank you. As for nomenclature, just plain "liberal" is sufficient.

One aspect of it that no one has really mentioned so far is that Americans find it easy to identify with Israel. In many ways its founding echos that of the United States – or at least the American myth: There aren't that many countries founded by immigrants based on some idealistic vision. And seeking a country where…

Interstellar comes to mind; not that it's terrible, just kind of dumb and full of itself.

One other reason Rushdie might choose Averroës as a character would be as an allusion to Borges.

This is true, but it's also a very natural human reaction. If you already have a negative opinion of someone, it's easy to accept any new, negative revelation or claim – even a thin one – as proving what you already knew. If you like them, you start looking for excuses (even if that's just changing to subject to…

It's a tricky problem, because the risk of politically motivated prosecutions is very real (witness pretty much any example from any other country), and that would inevitably lead to more political polarization and dysfunction, to the point where it's hard to imagine how a democratic government could continue to…

That is exactly the point made in the article, with Me and Earl and the Dying Girl as the example of a crowd-pleaser that is actually good.

No, it wasn't code to affect climate change, but to model (i.e. predict) it. And it's not a given that that was the actual purpose, either. Prediction algorithms would be of obvious relevance to Samaritan.

He seemed to be getting instructions from Samaritan, so presumably there's some reason behind it. After all, much of this situation was staged in the first place; could it be that it deliberately let the one guy go to provoke exactly such a showdown?

Yes… although I got the impression that they hadn't been "casing" Control's house, but were in fact her security detail. The fact that her personal security is provided by agents that have been subverted by Samaritan should be of some concern, though.

Yeah I noticed that.