Well the airlines are pretty up front about you needing to enter your name exactly as it appears on your ID. You can get away with a middle initial instead of a full middle name, but that’s the limit of the fudge factor. TSA is dumb and bureaucratic in a lot of cases, but they do run your info through namecheck…

Having been a terrorist (like, say, an IRA member) can actually be gotten around if you’re up front about it. Lying about having been a terrorist on a visa application makes you ineligible twice over. So yes, people actually do truthfully mark that box yes and do sometimes end up getting visas (after a VERY thorough…

It cost the baby’s family $160 (plus the ESTA fee of $14) and the U.S. taxpayer nothing. Consular affairs are entirely fee-funded (visas, passports, notarials, etc.). And the visa officer no doubt had a chuckle.

Bannon is evil, yes, but he only thinks he’s a genius. He’s thoroughly mediocre in every respect, except for his outstanding suckitude.

MmmmmMMMM good! Love me some unlabeled-axis “charts” that somebody pulled directly out of his/her ass. Especially love the bit where Dwight David Goddamn Eisenhower is recalled as left-of-center and Clinton and Obama are both Actually Conservative®.

On the one hand, in a vacuum, it’d be good to take the victim’s wishes into account here. On the other hand, Polanski skating on a really goddamn heinous crime because his victim turned out to be a well-adjusted adult, no thanks to him, is unacceptable.

In the U.S. (and Commonwealth countries, I think—the U.K. for sure), the president sits at the center of the long table. Easier to see and hear everybody else. Of course, at this particular meeting, this arrangement did not stop Trump from wondering aloud “where’s Rudy?” and looking about inquisitively. Rudy Giuliani…

So many orders!

It’s a fake, unless he had a time machine (or his phone runs on Pacific time). But you are dead on that it’s impossible to tell from content.

Our last Democratic president ordered Jackson off the $20 (well, the Treasury did, anyway). Harriet Tubman will replace him in 2020.

Unless things turn around in a hurry, nobody who doesn’t have to suck up to Trumpites to keep their phony baloney jobs is going to do so. And things won’t turn around in a hurry. Not one person in government doesn’t see Trump for who he is. The large plurality can’t stand him, a small contingent loves him to death,…

Yes, thank you for that lovely insight which is entirely appropriate when the president is not fully dedicated to the dismantling of all constitutional order. I am frankly not worried about corporate lobbying right now. I am worried about the end of democracy, and right now states--mostly, but not exclusively blue…

TBH right now “favor(ing) state power over federal power” sounds extra tasty crispy.

By way of comparison, the Cardinals dude who poked around in his old boss’s scouting notes got 46 months. Huzzah for justice!

Still a better use of funds than actually giving money to Bernie Sanders’s campaign.

If the Constitution is worth anything: no chance in hell.

It’d have to be Der Trumpenfuhrer himself, then. Nothing in Tillerson’s record suggests LGBTQ hostility (if reports are to be believed, he supported ending anti-gay discrimination in the Boy Scouts as a member of their national board). Career leadership at State is uniformly pro-gay rights. We got 999,999 problems but…

I can’t support this analysis. There are four words here, three of which are of significance, and all three are good things in every permutation except perhaps “titty lasagna,” and even that might be worth a try depending on whether we’re talking kink or cannibalism.

Ah yes, the ever-enjoyable “I’m not racist; it’s just that blacks are, objectively speaking, subhuman beasts” defense.

Same reason any of the rest of us pay our mortgage instead of going on a photo safari in the Serengeti or what have you: they thought there’d be time, and they didn’t want to make their own lives difficult in the moment. If even a normal hardcore conservative like Rubio or Jeb! is waiting in the wings, we’re still…