No, sorry, I just don't get off on Innaritu's empty, overwrought schtick.

Birdman is more of a crock of horseshit than anything.

Sicario was great. The night scene in the desert/tunnel was jaw-droppingly well done.

Isabelle Huppert FTW!!!!

Gay marriage was thanks to Anthony Kennedy. You're right about getting rid of don't ask, don't tell and the Paris Accord. Getting Bin Laden was the CIA and Navy Seals.

I will give you that some of what he did could turn out to be very influential, and here I am thinking of opening up relations with Iran and Cuba.

He could have not become a bigger deficit hawk in his first term than many Republican congressmen at the time, including those in the Senate who were willing to work with him on a stimulus, which led him to pursue a deeply inadequate stimulus for the size of the recession. Though, to be fair, he shares the blame on…

Yeah he's just like the guy who preserved the union and freed the slaves.

I'm guessing you weren't one of the nine million people to lose your home during his presidency. I am fairly certain that many of those people were disappointed in him and quite a few of them went for Trump this time around. Honestly, I have trouble picking out much good that he did at all. He talked a good game but…

Hopefully there is an understanding behind the scenes that this suspension is just a PR thing, and she is getting paid in the meantime.

I've been wondering about the Obama kids. They seem smart and remarkably humble and grounded for having grown up in the White House, which makes me think the Obamas are probably good parents. And yet history will almost certainly look back at Obama as a failed president who brought on the rise of Donald Trump. I…

Yeah, if you're into sweeping widespread, systematic mortgage fraud under the rug so that the banks who committed the fraud can move forward with mass foreclosures and kick nine million people out of their homes, then he's a pretty swell guy.

That's really cool to hear that perspective. I never got to see the Dead live but I'm sure I would have loved it. If they are a jam band then I guess there are definitely such a thing as a good jam band. Most of the ones I was taking about are a pale imitation of that though.

"Not at this scale"

It's not some pipe dream. It's been proven to work, time and time again, far better than what we have now.

I think fully socialized medicine here in the US would work just peachy, and probably far better than the mess we have now, which, again, is already dragging down our economy. Single payer would in all likelihood save a ton of money on healthcare by reining in costs (e.g. Medicare runs at about 3% administrative costs…

I upvoted this, but mainly for the part where you say you're stupid. And btw, if you don't like any variants of Marxism, that's your prerogative and doesn't make you stupid. But believing that no country has ever implemented Marxist ideas without resulting in genocide or collapse does make you ignorant, and calling…

I was being a bit cheeky, but if you haven't at the very least listened to all her 80s stuff, you definitely should. (Or better yet, watch the videos.) True Blue is one of the best albums of the decade, IMO. She was a real trailblazer.