Show some respect for the mold. It’s ALIVE, for fuck’s sake. Your haggis is just oatmeal stew in a dead sheep’s stomach, but those molds and bacteria that have found purchase there should be admired and respected!

UGH Thank you so much! Durveger’s law!

But again, I’m talking about logistics. We have local, state, and federal elections. Even the federal elections we have are controlled by individual State governments. Just about every election we have in this country is decided by some form of majority (not plurality) rule. In local and state elections, when there is…

To be clear, I’m not taking a position vis a vis multiparty systems in general. I’m talking specifically about our system, and when people talk about the need for a viable third party, it’s rare that they even begin to talk about why we don’t have one—and what drastic measures we would have to take legislatively in…

The reason that other countries can have multi party systems is because they have parliamentary systems which allow coalition governing or ranked voting. In order for this country to have a viable multi party system would would have to change our entire system, particularly at the presidential level which requires…

I think the fact that the US has always had a two party system isn’t very convincing.

That last question is obvious. We haven’t had three or more parties because of the way our elections work.

I mean, there has to be a better reason than some truism about variety of choices, preferably some rationale that recognizes why our country has never had three viable parties at any given time.

That’s not an argument in favor of three or more parties. It’s an argument in favor of three or more positions. I’m talking about from a logistical standpoint—knowing what you know about our system of government and the ways in which we elect public officials (from top to bottom), why do you think three parties is…

I don’t know. Weld particularly just seems like the kind of old school republican that was marginalized by the tea party. He’s a Rockefeller republican. I’ve been making fun of libertarianism since before most commenters were born and I generally agree with you but the GOP is currently so batshit that I can see why…

it’s just a picture of legs that cuts to an image of a man standing in a burning house and he has a goat head and his eyes are the black of the void and then it cuts back to an image of legs with paint on them and then it’s the goat headed man and he’s closer to the foreground and I can smell sulfur and then it cuts…

It’s not even a question of “life-saving”. The child is almost always already either not viable, not living, or really horribly damaged. It’s not like anyone has ever done this to a healthy embryo, either. The few scenarios where the mother’s health is suddenly threatened are similarly heartbreaking. To paint it…

And if you have an inconvenient scheduling conflict for the date of the birth, you just murder the baby and then traipse on over to your hair appointment. You can always make another one using welfare and Satan in Obama’s America!

Seriously can’t believe they just ripped my baby out of my womb, stitched it back up, and handed him to me. If I had any respect I would have just died in childbirth like god and Pat Robertson intended.

In Portuguese there’s a saying that can be translated as “Bad plant pots don’t break”. It is applicable here.

I am at a point where if I see the letters S, J, and W being used together unironically, then I read it as a handy shortcut to not waste an ounce of energy on the poster.

No worries. Any time I can explain the process and connect with a reader is a win for me. :D

I was driving and flipping off Trump signs (not solely for that purpose) and a dude saw me giving the finger to his sign. When I drove past his house again a few hours later, the sign was gone. I felt kind of bad. But then I remembered: Trump supporter. No mercy.

This is where you let your dog take a dump on their yard and “forget” to pick it up. That’s one of the perks of dog ownership.

Agreed. Except... Have you ever cleaned out the top shelf of the cupboard and found an opened jar of peanut butter that got shuffled behind the tomato sauce and black beans in the very back corner you can only reach if you get a ladder *and* a stick to pull everything forward, and then you get all excited because…