“I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that’s true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not.”

What a strange and wholly unconnected set of events!

If they were more like this, it wouldn’t be so bad.

I feel like my intelligence is being insulted in a very deliberate and hateful manner.

Just stop.

If you can restate that question without using “SJW”, then I’ll answer it.

That is a completely artificial situation you have described there. No one says “I am Batman” just as a random statement, devoid of context. Of course you can deceive people without explicitly lying, but a lie, intended to make people think things are one way when in face they are another, is inherently deceptive. …

Bad? That’s funny... I thought Bannon looked pretty much the same as he always does.

Go Ursula! I recently learned a remarkable actual fact - she has won more of the top prizes in SF, the Hugo and Nebula for Best Novel, than anyone else except Lois McMaster Bujold. They’re both tied at 6. Le Guin won the Hugo and Nebula for “The Left Hand of Darkness” in 1970, both again for “The Disposessed” in…

Ursula is an international treasure. We ignore her wisdom at our own peril.