Aw shucks! Thank ye very kindly!

Presumably Jasoomian (blocked for me) said something about how the Clinton campaign had staged violence against Trump's campaign rallies.

No, Russia is looking to redecorate Syria, and is testing out different paint colors (blood red is their favorite so far).

A lot of the questions had a conservative bent (the question about the national debt, for example), but his actual moderation was largely fair. Honestly I would not have expected otherwise. Even Fox News takes their role in this kind of thing seriously.

Hillary has held a polling lead (and consequent lead in EC votes) since the conventions, but much of this depends on how you feel about an estimated 51% or 55% chance of victory. Some look at it and say "that means we're gonna win!" – in reality it means that you have an almost even chance of losing.

It's only the recent meltdown that allows you to declare yourself proven right ahead of time, though. You may have argued that he "lacked crossover appeal" in Florida, but a couple of weeks ago he was ahead there in the polling, as well as in NC, Nevada and Ohio. At that point he'd have a very real shot at winning.

60-40 is pretty good (and the latest estimate is even slightly better than that), but Democrats were in a good position coming in, and were hoping to take the Senate this election long before Trump became the candidate.

This isn't about refusing to support Clinton: there is a principled case to be made for that, although I don't agree with the principles.

Undecided voters at this point are mainly people who don't give a shit about politics, and who probably won't actually vote (low-information, low-propensity voters, in the lingo). You wouldn't think they'd be the best pool for finding people who can ask good questions of the candidates, which is probably part of the…

Upvoted for A-Ha.

That's fine, but several of these – Springsteen, Radiohead, The Cure and the Smashing Pumpkins, at the very least – are objectively huge acts, definitely not "obscure" in any way. So your complaint basically becomes… that your taste in music differs from that of the staffers (and clearly many of the readers, given how…

It may seem embarrassing in light of more mature sophistication/cynicism, but I remember being totally shattered by "Cat's in the Cradle" as a kid.

I'm not hugely into LCD Soundsystem, but "Someone Great" definitely brings me to goosebumps.

The parts when the music swells in "Little Motel" give me that transcendent rush, definitely.

The Pulp song that gives me goosebumps is "David's Last Summer":

I think most of the songs were improved musically by being tightened up for the album versions – "Girls! Girls! Girls" in the Girlysound version is just interminable – though they lost some intriguing bits. (The "girlfriend" line in "Fuck and Run" is from the guy's perspective rather than queer, however. You could…

"Don't Hold Yr Breath" and "Ant in Alaska" may be my two favorite Liz Phair songs (though it's hard to choose among her best stuff). Can't believe she never put them on an album.

With Google ngram viewer it ought to be pretty easy to check whether a phrase existed at some point in the past: https://books.google.com/ng… (it doesn't like the apostrophe, so you may have to refresh the search)

It sounds like you're asking for a much smarter/better show than this has any intention of being.

If everything changes completely whenever there are any fairly minor changes in the past, the show doesn't work. I mean, realistically the butterfly effect would almost certainly mean that anyone born more than a year or so after the visit (no matter how uneventful) simply would not exist, replaced by entirely…