First, the writers do not get to decide the ads that run on the site. It’s actually quite telling, and indicative of independence, that the writers can be critical of Amazon while Amazon ads run along side those critical articles.

In 1973 the Washington Post won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of Watergate.

“He was born in Sicily or Donegal or Dubrovnik”

“[A]n immature and stupid response that literally could not have ended any other way.” What an impressively succinct encapsulation of exactly the type of reflexive bootlickery Burneko denounced in his piece. And the nice thing is, you can make literally the same exact argument in favor of literally any act of defiance…

Labor forgets its class consciousness sometimes, but capital never does.

Falling in line every time JUST MOVES THE FUCKING LINE.

Counter counterpoint: he has made all his legal remedies more valuable and effective by raising the stakes.

“These people deserve to suffer because they have political/moral failings” is the conservative argument about the poor. Don’t make it your own.

I honestly had no idea it took this long to caramelize onions. Next time my wife is barefoot in the kitchen caramelizing me some onions I’ll ask her how long it takes her to make my sandwich.

Visas for tech workers actually do take away positions from Americans in favor of foreign nationals. The job postings that no one matches and have impossible requirements are there so companies can claim “We looked for months and couldn’t find a qualified candidate! We managed to find one in India though (coincidence…

I don’t think Dems want to do those things. I mean, they will do them when it is politically convenient to do so, but they aren’t going to stake out ground and actually put themselves on the line for it.

Isn’t it strange to think that you can dislike something, while disliking something else more? I don’t like burned steak. But I’d sure as hell prefer to eat burned steak if the alternative is medical waste. That doesn’t mean I’m happy with the steak, and I’m probably going to complain that maybe you shouldn’t cook it…

It takes a pretty myopic person to think that any of these:

The argument is that the New Democrats of Bill Clinton’s triangulation shifted the Democratic Party from being the party of the New Deal into being the party of finance. Everything about these critiques of the Democrats and DNC come from the impossible position the DNC has placed itself in by positioning themselves as…

I guess to understand it you’d have to look at what happens with Democrats actually in power vs. their stated platform.

When Rod is at Chris’s apartment trying to call his cell phone and gets Rose instead, there’s an ad for the United Negro College Fund playing on TV. The slogan, “A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste,” sounds a lot more sinister in context.

The thing that struck me was the end when the police car pulls up. Usually in a horror movie the police showing up is a sign that the ordeal is finally over. However, in this movie when the cop car pulls up there was a big groan in the audience. Everyone knew that there was no way that the police would believe…

The top comment on the reddit discussion thread for the movie noted that Chris escaped the basement by literally picking cotton. If that’s intentional, and I’m inclined to believe it is...brilliant.

Democrats can’t allow Trump to fill a Supreme Court vacancy during the last year of his presidency.