Heh. I have two phrases for you.

Vastly more entertaining, true, but to my thinking it will require one fundamental shift in American politics: the complete and permanent destruction of the two-party system.

Someone’s been reading a bit too much of Phil Foglio’s “Buck Godot: Gallimaufry”...

I’ve read that one of the tests a guy in some parts of Spain must pass to demonstrate his competence in the sack is making her omelettes. The source went on to explain the parallels between the activities, including preparation, focus, adaptability, timing and focus.

Unless and until CFA abandons their anti-LGBTQ and anti-women's-bodily-autonomy policies, I'll support their competitors. Or won't go out to eat, which seems more likely with the direction the economy's going.

It’s altogether too frustrating. Assuming your idea can be explained to a six-year-old of average intelligence, you will either be frustrated by him turning it down for the dumbest possible reasons, or by him taking full credit for the idea as he announces it to the world and utterly mangles it while doing so...

To answer the question of the headline: “Yes, and has been for years.” The very concept has been a thinly-disguised cover for not-quite-monopoly, and the fact that it has now been thoroughly relegated to ‘things we used to do’ makes me raise a glass to its passing and pray to all the gods of booze that it never…

You would likely be amused and more than a little intrigued by the ‘flavor fiction’ incorporated into a very unusual cookbook.

DC used to publish a comic book called “The Books of Magic”. In the first series, there was a story arc in which the High King of the Fae acknowledged that the court jester had a very important job: to sneak up on our own flawed thinking and general foolishness, and somehow bring it before us in a way that allows us…

But that’s not how fascists think. Their entire psychopathology revolves around displays of strength. With no one to stand up to them, their victims suffer. Anyone not like them (non-white, non-worshippers of Caucasian Supply-Side Jeezuz, non-heteronormative, etc) get victimized. That is simply the historical pattern,…

Within limits, of course.

Not possible. The entirety of his reputation as a “shrewd businessman” and “savvy negotiator” rests in the hands of competent subordinates who leave the spotlight to him.

The ‘addict’ metaphor keeps going; every gun-nut in the country serves as an enabler for every other gun-nut. So we would need to stage an intervention for something like a hundred thousand people all at once. Keeping them all off of social media AND away from their precious, precious guns for something like 48…

“Antifa stay away”?

Could someone please post a .gif of the appropriate scene from."Ice Pirates", in which the (black) technical-guy reveals his 'ultimate robot'?

I just find it bitterly hilarious that HE accused US of gaslighting HIM. A textbook example of ‘projective slander’, as he himself has been gaslighting his home state and the rest of the country for years...

The Dem leadership has apparently gotten used to GOP-ers being crude and spewing soundbites; they have forgotten what “principled” means, and would likely allow the apples Mueller has shined on their behalf to dry up completely in the absence of public pressure to do _something_ with them.

Too many cherished prejudices getting shown as the foolish lies they are, racism and sexism at the top of the list. At the same time (as has been pointed out repeatedly, elsewhere) anti-intellectualism is baked into American culture from before the first vague notions of independence were more than drunken grumbles at…

Such a delightful image: Two Scoops getting dragged, kicking and screaming and abandoning every last shred of his ‘responsible adult’ disguise, off the plane and directly into an armored police-car...

Now.