No, you are confused. That’s his derby name.

I don’t understand the point of Secret Service code names. Presumably, it’s a name the service gives a person they are protecting so that if an outsider hears the name, the outsider won’t know who they are talking about. Right? But then everyone knows the name because it is announced, and even if it weren’t, it is…

This is happening to many American jobs. You think teachers, cops, social workers, etc the others I mentioned don’t deal with similar employment injustices? It’s correct to be concerned about employee rights. It is not correct to freak out because someone didn’t finish their meal in time for you to take their tray,…

Lately, I've felt that many American flight attendants are really snarky and passive aggressive. They just seem miserable and totally stressed out. I have several American friends who are flight attendants, and they go on about the stress of their jobs as if they were in a combat zone. I get that customer service is…

Poor Rory. Amy was such an abuser.

Ah yes, I see. That’s a much more nuanced argument and it makes sense. Sorry I misunderstood. I think it’s wealth inequality that is state sanctioned. In fact, I’d say that a lot of the status quo depends on it.

I love the way you keep telling me what I thought, what I remember, what sort of person I am, etc. Three things: 1) I’m sure some people said Obama was unelectable. That is generally something that someone says about everyone. But absolutely there were just as many people who were enthusiastic about him within the…

Yes exactly. There is no way that the hardcore red states are going to go blue regardless. There is no “odd southern state” that might vote Democrat under certain circumstances, not this election- no matter who the Dem candidate might be. Those states will stay red, and the tiny bit of increase in voters on the left…

Meh. I don’t remember people really saying that. I remember people talking about him winning the next election after his DNC speech years before he ran. He’s a black man. That’s all. He’s also a Christian who grew up in a white family with some interesting international heritage and travel experiences in his youth,…

Well I agree mostly, but complex societal problems are rarely as simple as state-sponsored conspiracies. I don’t think there is any state sponsoring of murdering blacks. Too many non-black people get killed by the police all the time. What there is, is rampant wealth inequality and neighborhoods of poverty which are…

Trump might throw a wrench in the GOP plans. It’s weird to think that he actually has supporters. As for Sanders, I think he has about as much a chance of winning the nomination as Nader had. Or Ron Paul on the right. He’s one of those candidates that does not fit the current narrative. But even if he did get the…

So they are basing this on the idea that they own any representations of the book (pictures) that might be out there since they took them?

Did he? For some reason, I thought he was at UT Arlington, which still is not UT Austin but does still have a known team.

Yes! I've seen it! There is also a Gutenberg at Yale that's even older. Not that I can tell the difference between any of these things!

That's a good point too. I didn't think about it that way, but you are right. The whole undertone of this thing is "childrearing is boring and therefore not a worthy way to spend ones' time". He's proud of his wife for figuring out a way to take the tedium and make it worthwhile and proud of himself that he can go off…

Ha ha! Well, at least there's that! Thanks!

I live in the south, so I don’t know about West Virginia. But there are no poor whites here who would ever come even within a mile of voting for someone who is openly a Democratic Socialist and who goes to events with Noam Chomsky, except for the sort of college-educated but underemployed poor white who work in coffee…

That said, people do hate Clinton enough and haven't heard of Sanders enough that it's always possible he'll do much better in the primaries than I can imagine.

Nah. None of the major nutcases are going to get the Rep nomination. But let’s take a step back. Sanders can’t possibly get the Democratic nomination in the first place because a lot of his policies would threaten the political-economic status quo. And we’d all be really naïve to pretend there is any possibility…

Sure, I'll get right on that! No seriously though, it's possible she doesn't want to run. I don't know the woman personally, and maybe that's just a job she doesn't want. But I think it is more likely that she knows her place in the party and that Hilary thought she'd have the nomination 8 years ago and when she…