It’s absolutely the Soloman approach though. Obviously neither of these people want that outcome, and having a judge throw that option down on the table is probably going to force them to act like adults and figure out this problem their own damn selves.

Yeah, but it seems more like a threat you throw out to motivate people to handle their own shit instead of running to a judge. “You want the courts involved in the custody of your dogs? Well the court sees your dogs as things, and when people can’t figure out who gets the thing, we sell it and divide the money. Is…

What exactly do we mean when we say “humanize” him? The way it’s used in your comment and in the article it sounds like it means “talking about him in any context other than explicit condemnation.” I hate the guy as much as anyone, but to suggest that he shouldn’t be made fun of because it would bother some people to…

The ability to freely poke fun at the leader is one of the first things to go. Satire and comedy is one of the canaries in the coal mine of our civil liberties, and we already see how much trump hates it.

It’s never a bad thing.

Yeah, but as a Canadian I wouldn’t be caught dead in a fur coat when it’s freaking room temperature outside. That’s embarrassing.

Holy Dahmer!!!

Watching good actors in horrible movies is one of my guiltiest pleasures. Like BRIAN BLESSED and Alan Rickman in Robin Hood, or Oliver Reed in the direct-to-VHS Disney version of Black Arrow, or Gordon Currie in Left Behind. There is just something inherently funny about watching one person put 100% effort into a job…

I’m having difficulty understanding Margaret Cho’s perspective here. It sounds like Tilda was up front about the issues, expressed her desire to do something about it and sought advice from someone who is in a good position to provide it. And Cho’s responses were thoughtful and measured as well. Not sure what got lost…

To make Mythopoetic Stew:

This is where I break with the Jacobin/ Intercept left. Aleppo was under horrific fire from Russia before the election. In the last year, Russian shelling killed more civilians than ISIS has in all of Syria, and twice as many civilians as the entire UAV drone strike program has since 2004.

False-flag operation, natch. Team Sane sends a crazy guy out to do a crazy thing claiming he’s working for Team Crazy, thus making Team Crazy look crazy to those who somehow weren’t clued in by all the crazy in Team Crazy’s brochure.

It can be, but it’s also overused and sometimes completely unnecessary to the overall narrative of the story being told. The same way that the plot device of a man losing a woman love interest to death or capture is.

For you, being trapped in a hotel in North Dakota during a blizzard in subzero temperatures will be a story you tell for the rest of your life. For midwesterners, it was Tuesday.

I don’t want to Northsplain to you, Anna, but you have to rent a snowmobile. 

I’d been doing this too until my neighbor complained about the weed smell. Now I’m back to being completely miserable and misanthropic.

A few years ago, maybe 2013 or 14, Secretary Hillary Clinton came to my work (not Wall Street, tech company) for a fireside chat and to promote her book. She talked at length about her experience as SOS, and one thing she discussed was how much “small offenses” matter to so many leaders and countries around the world,…

Someone in the Ecuadorian embassy really needs to take one for the entire global team and pull the fucking fire alarm. Then bar him from re-entry, like “you’re on your own now, suckerrrrrrr!”

We call that Freedom Foam.

Did Trump just request a safe space?