I cannot say how much I appreciate the appropriate use of brackets here.

It presents LBJ as being borderline (if not pretty much explicitly) blackmailed by J. Edgar Hoover, which is pretty different thing. It definitely could have been made more clear, but I'm not buying that it really "tarnished" LBJ.

I think that's a bit unfair. There's a little difference between having two people fight to the death in front of you and a crowd of cheering spectators for your amusement and a podcast that discusses the specifics of a crime that happened fifteen years ago in a way that is often engaging, informative, and even…

Me too! I'd read some other Atwood, but had never actually sat down and read the paperback copy of The Handmaid's Tale until this year, and I similarly thought it was excellent. Highly recommended.

He was just trying to pacify a large mob who were trying to sodomize his guests! I mean, who hasn't been in that exact same situation and had to offer up the women in their family?

All salient points! I won't even disagree that he rationale you heard could easily have contributed to why it was accepted so painlessly. And I don't want to say that Marbury was an unimportant case; on the contrary, you are right that there's a reason it's memorized. Just couldn't resist the urge to point out that…

Actually, judicial review was first asserted in Hylton v. US in 1796, seven years before Marbury. They just happened to find the law in that case, a "carriage tax" imposed by Congress, constitutional, which of course implies that they can find a law unconstitutional. It is also discussed in Federalist 78. It's not…

Yup, seeing "Your Lips Are Red" live is easily one of my favorite concert experiences. She's amazing live.

I liked mbv quite a bit.

In Harvard Yard, perhaps?

…surprisingly?

He can really act, when he's not pulling some ridiculous asinine bullshit out of his ass.

It disturbs me how common this stuff is in the entertainment industry. Well, and the world at large…

I don't even own a comment section.

For a song that's just one word repeating over and over, it's surprisingly catchy.

I thought Holmes too.

That's Malcolm Tucker, you f star star cunt.

Yeah, we know you're only human and that the occasional n-word is gonna slip out, but you really nee to scale back a bit, @palmer45

He sure is. Wesley

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