It’s quite the dilemma: if you’re a good person, do you stay and be involved with this, or do you leave and let an amoral asshole be appointed as your replacement? Is martyrdom to keep your own hands clean going to achieve anything, and conversely if you’re trying to contain things from within will you end up having…

We agree that the problem lies with the plan of attack. My point here is that a lot of plans get made and then shelved. That’s what military oversight is for- saying ‘yes, that’s a good plan, no that’s too risky.’ And I think it’s logical to assume that Trump wants to be more aggressive, and that he is more prone to…

This wasn’t inept people going either, this was Seal Team 6. Whatever one thinks of the morality of their missions, their competence is unquestioned.

My understanding is that the mission plan was done under the Obama regime, but that they didn’t ok it. A lot of potential missions are planned out on a speculative…

I think the Thick Of It is a long way in the rear view mirror, tbh. I sent a Tweet to Chris Addison a while back, saying ‘the era you satirised is looking increasingly like a utopian age which has now sadly passed,’ and he agreed.

I know someone who worked for and occasionally with David Miliband for a few years, sometimes having to travel with him in quite close proximity. Miliband never learned his name and instead called him ‘beardy man.’ For several years. Every story I heard made him sound absolutely appalling to be around, like the Thick…

Here’s some good news about someone doing exactly that:

I suspect that translates to ‘he’s probably going to cut my taxes’ in your clients’ language?

(I too work in the Schminancial Schnervices Schindustry, there are a lot of people like that wandering around my office and I feel your pain!).

In the grim darkness of the Trump Imperium, there can only be war.

There’s a distinction to be drawn there between the inauguration day protests and the Women’s marches. You’re right that shit got crazy and was seen to get crazy, but the next day, zero arrests on the women’s march.

I have one disagreement- It’s how America ‘could’ end. I don’t think it’s inevitable, but I agree with you on how it feels. I’m at a remove as a brit married to an American, and the one positive thing I can say is it is inspiring just how clear it is from here that so many people are standing up and saying ‘no.’

Pretty much. They’ve got us.

He got the Packers playing Settlers of Catan. THAT’s his secret: he’s a full on gamer nerd, and they still think D&D is the work of the devil!

Jay Cutler’s left leg looks very small in that picture.

His victory speech was a bit like that- to me it sounded like the classic ‘you like me, you really like me!’ Hollywood acceptance speech. Like he finally felt loved. For a moment. It’s also the point at which he actually admitted to being daunted, as much as he is able- ‘this politics business is tough.’

Deep inside…

I actually think it’s the opposite- linemen are hitting each other on every play, from three-point stances. They’re set in the most ideal hitting stances and are going for each other explosively. I would agree that RBs do get the big spectacular, catastrophic events which knock them out cold more, but the cumulative…

A friend of mine once drunkenly confessed that he’d done this.

A week later, I was playing ‘I’ve never’ with his girlfriend in a social setting. I remembered this and said ‘oh, I’ve just remembered something really bad about someone but I’m not going to mention it, it’s too bad.’ She went pale, looked at me and said,…

It is weird how that fog seems to lurk around some teams. I feel relatively spoilt watching the Eagles, even though people are like ‘ha ha no Superbowls’ as if being the only team that ever beat Vince Lombardi’s Packers in a championship game doesn’t count, and half our fanbase screams for the entire team, coaching…

Yeah, I’ve felt like more weird shit went down this year. My understanding of the strategy behind trick plays is that they tend to be what coaches pull out when they need something wacky to go their way. That’s usually because they don’t expect their team to be able to win playing things straight, so to speak.

Does it…

I think Trump is a bit different, but I think it’s also fair to say that we’ve got to this point by each side demonising their opposition for a long while. I’m quite a lefty by inclination, but I’ve matured past the point of thinking that the other side are just cruel idiots. I always thought that no one political…

Why is logical disagreement ‘Trump-bashing’ to you?

Disagreement and debate, when conducted properly, makes both sides improve the strength of their opinions, if they are able to do so. If you disagree with what this article says, explain why you disagree and make a better case for your side. That’s democracy: we…