a big ol fuck up followed by some decent apologies / basic accountability feels like an honest to God palate cleanser at this point.

Man, people sure have a strange way of expressing their economic insecurity.

I think Michael Shannon is physically incapable of giving a bad performance. He carried Revolutionary Road on his shoulders.

Look, another ancient white man dredged from the bottom of the swamp!

Counterpoint: Blindly accepting the unknown means giving up the power to change it.

The best part of these letters is that, for the most part, they serve to show how deeply our public servants care about the cause for which they serve. These people are speaking anonymously and thus have little reason to lie, and what I get from reading these pieces is the terror that Trump will undo the work they’ve…

Wooba looba dick duck! Rich and Morto forever!

It is very upsetting that the same place that gives us Rick and Morty also has to give us this nonsense.

Um, the Republic of Ireland has been its own country, separate from the UK since 1921. Brexit & Nigel Farage are the responsibility mostly of the folks on the other side of the Irish Sea.

Just wow, the US can never call itself the leader of free world . I am getting mad at a lot of politicians who are downplaying how fucked up this is, you guys have elected a fascist.

Do you see how this response is exactly what Gelman was talking about? Instead of looking inward to examine your own biases, you presume someone is “talking down” to you when he’s discussing his own experience and asking for a greater variety of voices to work with and watch.

We still don’t have a good breakdown of how many of the “other” votes (Stein, Johnson, write-ins, etc) would have gone to Trump vs Clinton. As easy as it is to point to those voters as a main cause of Hillary’s defeat, until we know how many were nevertrumpers vs berniebros it’s hard to say how accurate that…

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Pretty wild that Stormfront can’t find a single fucking grammar nazi.

Hillary did not lose because of Bernie’s education plan.

What’s funny is that as a Democrat, you could legitimately use the same list. It’s a meaningless list that can be applied to any number of people regardless of party.

I think this was the woman who was interviewed by This American Life in their last episode. Don’t dismiss her, she had a lot of very smart things to say and everything she said about how congress works is absolutely correct.

The diet brutal (I was down to 98 pounds) but it saved my life. I was really unsocial during that time, especially since a few dinner hosts seem to love bringing up my medical history in front of others during the meal. Yeah, someone needs to write an etiquette book on this.

Yeah, after fighting Lyme disease for 2 years and ruining my intestines with antibiotics, I don’t need friends who are giggling at me or consider me a pain in the ass. Don’t invite people if you’re not happy to have them there. By the way it’s not always allergies, sometimes it’s FODMAP which is malabsorption and can…