The concept of “expertise” in general, I think, gets to Trump, because it conflicts with his ego. Certainly, the things Trump himself is good* at are, of course, things that can only be accomplished by an expert, and “expert!!” is totally what Trump is. But other people, on any subject Trump hasn’t really thought about…

Yeah, what’s missing in the X-men/minority metaphor is the legal concept of “proportionality”. There is significant usefulness in drawing the metaphor, specifically because it highlights the lengths bigots will go to justifying their bigotry in the name of some actual, tangible threat of harm. Bigots believe that gays…

It’s not even that it is happening. Donald Trump says it’s happening. He said it was happening literally yesterday:

Well, there was the obligatory “Washington Football-y McFootballfaces”, but Twitter polls have learned that suggestion always wins, so they usually just ignore it.

George Clooney has played a lot of shady or ambiguous characters, so even if he’s another target, he carries less weight than Hanks, who has almost always played nice guys in his career.

Really, I’m just glad that everyone in Maine finally wised to her game. It wasn’t that she was ever actually independent or reasonable. She is, and always has been, a pretty by-the-numbers Chamber of Commerce Republican. It’s just that she would sometimes toss her vote away on votes that were broadly small-l…

Ironically enough, on this day in moose history, a moose bit my sister in 2005 . . .

Yeah, this is just the personality disorder talking. I’ve seen this before.

He’s like two or three weeks from full-on Ghostbusters-riffing, except not ironically. Right down to Ben Carson Ernie Hudson-ing behind him.

I also hasten to point out, that’s not freedom of speech. “Freedom of speech” refers to the fact that the government cannot restrict your right to speak based purely on the content of that speech, or at least, cannot do so without meeting a bar that, to this point, has proven insurmountably high in courts of law. The…

I’m laughing, but good God, that woman just had no chance at life from the outset. Her parents condemned her the moment they named her.

Vive la France! Vive la liberte!

Still, his vow hasn’t halted the theorizing over what would happen if Trump loses the election and refuses to leave the White House in January 2021, and Trump’s ramblings about the evils of vote-by-mail—the safest way to vote during the covid-19 pandemic—don’t quiet down the unease towards Trump potentially defying…

In general, Fauci made recommendations based on the data he had and the situation at the time. When new data became available or the situation changed, he changed his recommendations. That doesn’t mean he was “wrong,” it doesn’t mean he “flip-flopped,” it means he has a flexible mind, is able to adjust his hypothesis…

It’s also, speaking as someone who is both a taxpayer and who received at least a modicum of education from public schools, a complete non sequitur. This:

I was thinking more along the lines of the obvious nickel-and-diming of the field maintenance, which creates all the divots that confetti’d RGIII’s knee. But yeah, that works too.

How bad a husband do you have to be to make “bathes weekly” an irresistable turn-on? Truly, the northmen must have been a nation of kings.

I for one would go for “Washington RG III’s Knee”, as a tribute both to how Dan Snyder’s management practices directly ruin the lives of his laborers, and for his tendency to buckle in ugly fashion after going at high speed in the wrong direction.

If it makes you feel any better, I’m pretty sure “Fox News Segments” are listed as cursed items in the Dungeons & Dragons Players Handbook. The stat drain effect only lasts 1d6 days, so it should wear off.