Yeah, that's the narrative we're always given. Democrats were never supposed to lose another presidential election. Look how that turned out. In reality, Trump won't even finish his term and the voters will realize they were lied to and lose their minds. They're already starting to.

Exactly. When my friend told me he'd rather be called "James" than "Jim," I was like who are you with your high and mighty expectations? It was a personal affront to me.

That's absolutely right. They can do nuance when it's helpful to their position. I'm reminded of when Obama said white rural folks "cling to their gods and guns" and those folks felt condescended to and bitched about it for years, but now they can't understand why minority groups claim offense to subtle condescension…

I appreciate both of these points. I've had friends in my rural white neighborhood who will encounter a gay person or a black person they like and will more or less just start unconsciously processing them as straight or white. I've heard people say explicitly, "oh, well he's not like the rest of them," not realizing…

Hell I still think that.

I largely believed before last night that Bernie would be doing worse. Now, after having my beliefs confirmed that this was truly a policy-free election, and "outsiderness" and "authenticity" were the only valued currencies, who the hell knows. Maybe things would've been different. Maybe not.

I mean I work professionally in economic research and I have no idea what you're talking about. I'm certainly aware there was backlash against the TPP, as there always is for any trade agreement the US is involved in. But I don't know of and can't really find anything related to each side releasing "proposals"…

I don't know that I followed this. No EU country is involved in the TPP. Are you thinking of the TTIP? And there's just one agreement. It's not like there's a US version and an EU version. There's a trade agreement and all countries ratify it. Can you elaborate on what you mean by how the EU can have one version of…

I think Milo Yiannopoulos and Allen West have covered that territory well. They haven't been smart enough to team up yet though.

I downloaded the complete document from ustr.gov a couple months ago. It's definitely not a secret.

I wonder how many years of nonstop apocalypticism it takes for his listeners to finally crack and just get bored of it. Jones can keep up the routine, but how long can an everyday person continue to believe in that level of conspiracy? It just gets exhausting, in my experience.

And even with that, suppose he gives North Carolina a 51% chance of going Clinton and it goes for Trump. Does that mean he's wrong? Huff Post has apparently decided in the last couple days that they're gonna wage an anti-intellectual war with Silver, and it appears that's the metric they're gonna go off of to judge…

According to 538, Hillary has a better chance of winning Alaska than Trump has of winning Michigan. I hate to be that over-confident liberal, but I do just think it's interesting that Michigan has become the go-to danger state in the last couple days. There's always that chance that polls have oversold Clinton's…

I think it was a reference to Lewis's apologetics rather than his Narnia books, but I certainly don't disagree that Lewis was a deep and complex thinker. But Lewis still has quotes like the following:

I continue to hold out hope that Jack Chick was really a parody artist this whole time. I don't think there's a person alive who could read one of those strips and be proud that this piece of shit is on their team.

I don't know about everyone else, but I was never given Chick tracts as a kid in church. He became a meme in the AV Club comments, which is the only reason I've ever heard of him. You do make a wonderful point, though, about how just phrasing something a little cleaner can go a long way into making a point of view…

He's also a top notch director! Winter's Tale, anyone?

Then they really, really should not have hired Fuller. That's just not what he does and everyone knows that.

Someone can correct me if they disagree, but I think Cat in the Hat was a film that was really made for kids. I remember enjoying the hell out of it when I was a kid. I spent a summer in college working with kids and I distinctly remember they freaking raved for that movie too. Doesn't mean it's not garbage though.

Just walked out of this film. THREE FREAKING DAYS! ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Give this woman an Oscar, world.