Which, itself, is something of a literacy test. If you don't understand the budget enough to know that you're being bullshitted any time a politician talks about saving significant amounts of money by cutting…well, anything but military spending, social security, or Medicare — then you don't understand the numbers.

The Catholic Church has been pretty good about keeping up with science for the past century or two. It's got a lot of PR work to do to make up for the whole Galileo thing.

There ARE military threats to our safety, but there are lots of other, more pressing threats. Most of the US public seems to have finally cottoned to the notion that a lack of healthcare is a far more immediate threat to their safety than middle-eastern terrorists, and that's heartening.

I liked the twist where the Democrats didn't put up a fight against Roberts's confirmation and said it was because they needed to save their political capital for next time, so if Bush nominated somebody *really* right-wing they could block him, and then Bush nominated somebody really right-wing and they didn't block…

Don't forget the alcoholism.

I'm torn.

They don't even pay lower taxes! When income tax is cut, federal funding for state programs gets cut. When federal funding for state programs gets cut, states increase sales tax. Sales taxes are regressive AF; they disproportionately impact the poor. It's just harder to notice death by a thousand cuts; it's easier to…

I've also seen "He's not a politician, he didn't know it was obstruction of justice" and "he was joking."

I thought he was Ted Cruz.

But nobody forced him to hold a goddamn press conference. That's on him. (Though I grant Lynch really shouldn't have had that meeting with Bill.)

I remember Tina Fey saying something to that effect, that that's part of what makes him so good *and* just such a joy to be around: he always commits, always gives it everything he's got. To the point where it's almost more fun when the material sucks and he's bombing, because he gives it just as much.

I thought Wedding Singer was pretty good.

Could have been worse. Polonius tried hiding behind a curtain and he got stabbed. And then everybody died.

I don't know that he did (but I'm glad we never actually had to find out). Trump is unpopular and incompetent, and his grip on power is tenuous; his initial success was down more to the element of surprise than to his abilities or his staff's. The backlash was immediate and he wasn't equipped to handle it. And at…

There was that quote that made the rounds a lot, that Trump's supporters took him seriously but not literally and his opponents took him literally but not seriously. Turns out we all should have been taking him both literally and seriously.

Crap, you're right, I went and forgot about Don Heck. Poor guy; never gets the love his contemporaries did. (He really was a better artist than he gets credit for.)

It is literally as bad as my darkest fears portended.

I thought Colbert put it well: "Give him a chance, but don't give him an inch." It was possible — unlikely, but possible — that President Trump could have been different from Candidate Trump. Maybe he didn't really mean all the crazy shit he'd said. Maybe he'd be too lazy to actually do anything consequential. …

I'm not sure if I've ever seen a dumber article, and my grandma used to regularly forward me Hillary Clinton conspiracy theories from World Net Daily.

No, that's not my logic at all. I'm suggesting *more* credits, not fewer.