Just some scruffy looking sheep-herder.

Just like me.

Since I'm coming back on his second day in office, I'm hoping the wall won't be too tall for my flight to make it over yet.

All about you? No, I'm pretty sure everything's all about me.

If Stephen Hawking were to die tomorrow, he still would have made it something like fifty years longer than anyone with ALS could expect to. It'd still be a positive story in that regard.

I'm sure many were.

I'm getting that vibe a little bit.

I believe that a ticket with a combined age of 142 would not be a very good idea.

At the very least, there's no way a reasonable person could think that he actually harmed the ticket. He had just as much impact as any other VP candidate, which is practically none.

To be honest, I don't think that a vice-presidential choice swings votes, period. But Kaine was a sensible choice, according to the conventional wisdom. Any other pick would have made no difference. And as for the idea that she ignored people's desire for progressive change, I'd suggest reading her actual political…

Yeah, she chose Kaine thinking that Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania were in the bag but not 100% sure about Virginia, so in that context it made sense. Obviously, the way things turned out, he might not have been the best choice, but we shouldn't pretend that it was plainly stupid, because it absolutely wasn't.

I once won a Trivial Pursuit game on the question "Who was prisoner # (whatever)?" Knowing the game's JFK obsession I guessed Lee Harvey Oswald and got it right. My friend accused me of reading the cards in advance. (It was my game, so that was definitely a theoretical possibility, but fuck her for refusing to believe…

But the year wasn't a total loss for Dukakis. His cousin won an Academy Award.

That's exactly what I'm saying. You're 100% right, and people saying that we shouldn't be upset about celebrity deaths because there are other, objectively more important events going on, are willfully misinterpreting people's feelings. We have the ability to recognize that many different things are many different…

Was Kaine really that bad an idea? Because you know, she won Virginia.

I imagine his supporters would take the "If they're allowed to use that word why can't we?" route.

"Politeness is destroying America!"

The Oscars' and Grammys' tribute segments are going to have to just be their own hour-long specials. They'll be like the Super Bowl pregame show.

As if the way someone feels about Aleppo and the way they feel about Carrie Fisher is even the same type of sadness.

#2016stillnotdonne