Sadly, it’s both. Along with the acceptance of endless war, the seizing on Muslims as some kind of “other,” and the blithe acceptance of giving away our privacy and civil liberties in exchange for the imaginaty safety of the military-industrial complex’s chrome embrace, I do believe there’s been an increase in a sense…

Not sure I agree. Folks who used to just wait for the police or an ambulance now just routinely step up and take care of situations on their own. A good example would be the Boston Marathon Bombing. There were hundreds of grievious injuries among the bystanders but a fascinating statistic emerged: of the over-100…

Whoa!

Not surprised by this. Thanks to sites like Act Blue, regular folks like me can slide Elizabeth or Bernie or Cory or Julian $10 to $50 whenever they have some extra dough, or are pissed off, or if there’s a deadline coming up. I’ve done this persistently since some of the candidates declared. But even if I liked him,…

Just imagine if this had been an attractive white 21-year-old girl.

To a certain extent, I also worry about this. To the point where one of my winter activities in my very Northern, very Blue state is going to be to buy a shotgun and go to the range and learn how to use it. I’m also cultivating good relationships with all of my neighbors, making sure I know everybody, and especially…

Um, I think you and the guy who won the Civil War have also won this comment thread! Yow!

Hmmm.... Since I left high school, I never see him in person, but I did catch a re-run of Hail Caesar! two nights ago, and his face seemed less scowly than you have described.  Maybe he has aged into it...

Thank you, thank you. “Perfidy” is a word that creates a lot of openings, from my experience.

Makes sense to me!

Oh, my!

Not to mention that it could put the savvy voter in mind of what she’s capable of doing to guys like Putin. If she wins, I’m sending her a pair of thigh-high black leather boots!

Now I’m *ded*!

This is an excellent metaphor here. I will add it to:

And are a petite flower...

OMG, that would be even better.  Yo, Jacob -- you’ve been Rickrolled!

I am hopeful it’s a sign of the END of the apocalypse. After all, even if he’s a shitty democrat, Rahm Emmanuel is a Democrat.

They are being operated by space aliens?

Just saw a very funny tweet about this and am going to try to reproduce it:

They are great plans, but not great tracts of plans...