For making a reference to mushroom guys who rigged a contest, a la the Watergate scandal, this multinational gaming company should make an apology to a Twitter celebrity who gets offended at games that reference the Watergate scandal if other people use them as a joke at her expense. A powerful fan club, this person…

Why Nintendo should have to say “Sorry this joke wasn’t about you” within two hours after anyone on Twitter takes offense—especially if the offense arises from someone who apparently has an extremely tangential relationship with an event from 1970s American politics?—is beyond me. Apparently you think Nintendo should…

But is it possible—I mean, just a little possible—that this person is slightly paranoid? Or should Nintendo—a multi-million dollar gaming company—look into every Twitter subculture’s several-year-old history to make sure they don’t incur the wrath of someone’s truly unhinged…

I’m not really looking for a perfect record. Liberals wished Clinton were much more liberal than she is. That’s when the DNC put liberalism itself into the crosshairs, calling social democracy (like the kind in Canada) “unpragmatic” or “impossible”—a bluff right out of the conservatives’ playbook. It’s about what…

Even with Sanders out of the picture, liberal rebuttals to Clinton’s military adventurism can still be sexist. After all, only sexists think that corporate militarism should be the purview of men alone. Why must every finger-steepling corporate overlord that overlooks an Alexandrian expanse of terrain from their sweet…

Or whatever it was, after the initial identity politicking wore off. Some of us—even knowing there is a special place in hell for us—continue to vote on policy. We may even speak up over the next few years, if universal health care gets continually moved to the backburner in favor of Syrian intervention. With the…

If only those poor people would leave the political contributions to us oil companies, they wouldn’t get frittered away by social democrats and their cockamamie public works.

“DAAAAAAAD, not now! I’m abstaining from a Senate vote and it’s REAAAAALLY important right now and you wouldn’t UNDERSTAAAAAAND.”

That’s because sometimes race is religion and religion is race, for so many people. After all, the vast majority of people have the religion their parents had. The one they were essentially born with, primarily as a result of their nationality. Because people think this way about religion, Trump can artfully turn his…

Trump professes the ability to ban just Muslims from the United States, perhaps by checking dicks and scanning their souls. Otherwise, he’ll be using the following questionnaire to eager immigrants: “Are you a Muslim? Please be honest, but also you don’t get to immigrate if you say yes.”

I actually helped write Palin’s comic monologue for Politicon, and I’m letting you guys have a sneak peek before you get to hear it live:

It’s beyond shitting on Sanders now. It’s about shitting on liberalism and liberals, and their unusual need to rally and talk about issues this election cycle. Liberals got uppity, and there are certain ways to silence them: Tell them their own identity disqualifies them from helping the oppressed, tell them that…

But you think it’s a travesty that anyone who doesn’t like excessive capitalism must draw upon a great deal of capital to run a campaign? This is the unbreakable system we’ve created. It’s a Catch-22 designed to make governance look impossible and social democracy look hypocritical.

So a person requires expensive protection to fight on behalf of the oppressed. This is the system that capitalism created. It’s a Catch-22.

Oh the shame! The early smear campaign was about divide-and-conquer identity politicking to keep the party centrist, in the hopes of winning the general election and avoid having to reform aspects of the DNC. To fend off a person for what he is.

It’s not really a precedent. There have been several Presidents with the same last name as others.

Huh. It’s unusual for Turkey to be vocally opposed to the rights of the LGBTQ community. I certainly hope this doesn’t strain our relationship with them, or our other close ally Saudi Arabia.

I haven’t heard about her relationship with Tig Notaro. Is there a short version?

I didn’t say corporations are evil. I just said that they expect a return on their investments. That’s why they invest in public policy. A corporation that says “I’m investing a massive amount of money, and I expect not to get any of it back.” wouldn’t keep its shareholders for very long.

What a crazy article. It suggests that the only reason for any gun control measures is to undo freedom. Like, without any gain whatsoever, just because Bloomberg hates your freedom. But that seems to be the sentiment from across the aisle. People on one side understand that hobbyists, collectors, hunters, and those…