What’s the punishment if any of the Judiciary Committee members spill the beans on what’s in those background checks? At this point, unless it’s execution, isn’t that worth keeping an alleged sexual assaulter off the Supreme Court?

And here’s how I know you just wanna be useless and angry. You don’t wanna bargain or reason with them, you don’t wanna stop them with force, so... what’s your solution? Patiently wait your turn? Because if you’re not gonna try to convince the arsonist to stop, and you’re not going to bring a bucket, standing and…

Of course it would, don’t be absurd. Trump is doing plenty of evil shit with or without any help from Democrats, so fuck right off with that. Obama allowed drone strikes of civilian targets in the Middle East in an effort to kill suspected terrorists, but that’s not evil?

The good news is, if the show tanks without Roseanne and they decide to bring her back, it wouldn’t be the first time they wrote off an entire season as a dream sequence!

I’ve had both this version and the Detroit style which has salami instead of pepperoni. The Milwaukee style is as you said perfectly fine as a pizza, not terrible but not amazing either. The Detroit style for me has been hit or miss. A couple of times I’ve gotten it was pretty good but the last time it did not sit…

Or... here’s a thought: Make all the cars as fast as possible and just see how things sort themselves out.

Each of those things is a product of their time. Yes, we categorically deplore them now, for reasons that probably were even evident in their own time, but they were viewed as necessary. The United States wouldn’t have even happened without the Three-Fifths Compromise, the Civil War would’ve happened 10 years sooner…

Good point, there’s no way people who fuck up their teeth with grills and such don’t have garbage breath.

You’re not wrong, but he’s still regarded as a popular president regardless of his efficacy or actual policy positions. Much in the same way Carter is now regarded as a well-liked ex-president, but his time in office was ineffectual. Also when you’re looking through the short lens of comparing Trump to Obama, it’s…

On the plus side, if that stuff manages to stick around long after anyone who knew you personally is dead, it will provide a window into life during that time period for future historians!

Am I the only one who thinks that Post Malone just looks like he doesn’t smell good? Like, I’m imagining a mix of weed, BO, and Axe body spray.

It does seem insane now, and really it seems insane for a teen in the 80's even, but stuff like that is one of the ways we know about the everyday lives of people from the past 200-ish years. Teddy Roosevelt on the day his wife and mother died remarking that the light had gone out of his life. If he never kept a…

I can’t believe no one said this yet: Grizzly Adams did have a beard.

Hmm, interesting. Do you think it’s because the justices prior were really better in some way, or do we just spend far more time digging into the minutiae of their past now than we ever did before, thus making the recent crop of justices seem less popular?

If nothing else it’s a sobering look at what powers should we give to a president, any president. Because for every Obama or Carter there’s a Trump or an Andrew Jackson.

Since you brought up unfilled jobs, I thought I should point out that lots of unfilled jobs today are in skilled trades, which go unfilled because of the bullshit idea that everyone should go to college. These jobs, while hard work, are usually fairly high paying due to the fact that they’re services everyone needs…

I don’t think term limiting Supreme Court Justices has the effect you intend it to. Rather than go through what we’re dealing with right now once a generation, you’d basically be scheduling these fights at known intervals and making each party coordinate their efforts to try to maximize their control come time to…

I like your first idea, though I think most people wouldn’t go for it. Mainly because at least in California, the majority of the population are concentrated in large urban areas, so you’d have to try to find some way to allocate them to different states. Your second one I don’t think would work out though, that would…

I don’t think you can say that slavery wasn’t Federally endorsed when you had things like the Three-Fifths Compromise and the Fugitive Slave Act. And with today’s current political climate, the more procedural levers and cooling saucers we have, the better. If there is not a clear and broad consensus on what to do,…

Which is why we have a bicameral legislature and not a unicameral one. Now, this isn’t perfect as they’ve artificially capped the size of the House of Representatives, but California still has outsized representation there compared to, say, Wyoming. Having a legislature that was purely based off population wouldn’t…