Aging myself: I saw her in at an outdoor arena show in 1982.  She rocked then, too.

Trump’s vocabulary in these situations is incredibly limited — “weak”/”strong”, “open borders” and “crime” are 98% of what he is capable of saying, with barely the occasional sprinkle of anything else (MS 13, “vets”, “trade”) thrown in depending on the situation.   His inability to express himself beyond a stable of a…

OK, if you’re seriously asserting that nearly doubling the employer share of the payroll tax is both tenable and applies to only a “tiny percentage” of the population, or if you haven’t been able to look up available analysis indicating that Sanders’ spending policy goals would generate trillions more in debt beyond…

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Nope, not my blog.

His tax and economic policies were entirely politically untenable in this country. A good detailed evaluation is here: https://www.joshuakennon.com/thoughts-bernie-sanders-tax-economic-proposal/.

I’m not sure what to think about Johnson. I saw reports that his campaign people thought they were pulling equally from Trump and Clinton. I also saw a report about polling that suggested that if Johnson were not available, 30% would have voted for Clinton, 15% for Trump, and the rest would have stayed home. Stein…

It is also true for 2016, however, that in WI, MI and PA, Trump’s margin of victory was smaller than the number of Sanders supporters who voted for him. In other words, if they are just closer to ideologically coherent (which is to say, just not morons) and either (a) vote for the Democrat, or (b) stay home, Trump…

Interesting data points that I think reflect (a) in the case of 2008, sub rosa racism (putative Democrats -- probably the older white guys -- voting for McCain in the general rather than the black guy), and (b) in the case of 2016, the general perception that the main choices were “not great” and “galactically awful.”

Sigh. Again, there are practical realities that a monochrome view of the left obscures, and that articles like this ignore at their peril:

So THAT’s why Khabib can’t get a decent fight.

This is so, so, so true. That and the utterly amoral trade of radical right Supreme Court justices for ignoring his blatant corruption will inflict damage on the county long after he’s dead and gone.

I am a Fed fan generally, if that explains it. Also appreciate Rafa, although my Fed-fan nature makes me resist actually liking him. Not a Djokovic fan. Not a Murray fan. Not a servebot fan. Lately have enjoyed watching youngsters like Zverev and Shapo do amazing things (although Shapo looks like he could become the…

Why would we expect him to behave differently? He could have tried to make it a little bit less obvious how in the tank he is for Putin, but he’s not that smart, and he can’t resist the “rigged witch hunt” idiocy, especially with Putin offering to “send his team in to help.” He WANTS the Russians to keep interfering,…

While starting to feel the usual outrage at his latest performance, I also realized — why would we expect him to behave differently? Sure, he could tone down the ass kissing even a little bit so as not to make it so blindingly obvious how in the tank he is for Vlad, but he’s not that smart, and he can’t resist playing…

Stating the obvious, but Anderson has to pray for a five-set classic from Djokodal.   Either one of them is in the same galaxy as “fresh” and they’ll just run him around the court until he drops.

I turned it off to go eat at 18 all.   I was losing the will to live. 

Sterling and Jesus are currently on my shit list.

Eh, I think this article is a gigantic consolation blowjob to Brazil.  Belgium’s counter is the best in the field, by far, and their commitment to defend gets far too little credit from Billy. I had thought Lukaku was a rich man’s Altidore, but he’s run more in this WC than Altidore has since he was 12. The counter…