“It goes to Eleven.”

Rubicon.

It’s that crucial difference between being hapless and being an imbecile. Neither are good things for the president to be, but one is much worse than the other.

Putin has been involved in a land war in Asia, so he’s out for Vizzini.

In this New World, the cake is styrofoam.

There were less drones, then, too.

Um, that’s actually literally what they do. It’s called petitioning for a Writ of Habeas Corpus, and its force of action is to command the government to produce the person being held before a court so that disposition of their detention’s legality can commence.

The judge’s role in this case is not to follow the order, since it is not directed at him. His job is to analyze the order to see if it conforms with the law. He has determined it does not in certain key respects, as per his job.

To what agency would one file a complaint about your illeism?

The whip is a nice touch. Very Lou Andreas-Salomé.

Quite possibly, though I will never not be astounded by the prevalence of people who choose to troll just for fun, instead of money motives.

Don’t you worry. You seem utterly resistant to explanation of all kinds, so no harm could possibly be done.

Considering I’m a white male, I don’t think I’m capable of those two modes.

Riposte: Your attack on the original post is reducible in practice to an excuse-making exercise for a lazily uncharitable approach to propositions.

As synecdoches for more complicated concepts, they are perfectly fine, so long as you are aware of how the audience will read the intensions and connotations of the usage. It is not necessary to re-explain and re-litigate the strengths and weaknesses of the concept of social privilege (and the entirety of modern…

It’s the Swiss Option: Hey, if there’s a genocide and you don’t get involved, you can’t profit from it!

Freedom of Speech is the concept that the state—the police power of government—should be restrained from interfering in the expressions and publications of citizens and residents.

Tim Gunn is the available spirit animal for every well-meaning straight white dude.

...out of 10!

In my personal extensive but necessarily anecdotal experience, the palate sucking could theoretically also be due to an epic ganja-blowout. Smoke, of whatever species, is hard on the hard palate. But he just doesn’t have the chill, so blow it must be.