In a Chili’s? Generally safe, but needs to be washed in hot water.

It’s actually a series of small moments, but it was something that I thought that the horror genre was terribly lessened by not noticing.

The Republican Party has discovered, and has for the last decade ruthlessly exploited, the heuristic that people who only dimly pay attention to politics mistake “bipartisan” for “good”. In normal circumstances, it’s not necessarily a bad heuristic; the assumption is, look, they’ve got their opinion, and you’ve got…

You seem like you missed my entire point there buddy. I didn’t call Trump’s polling numbers good, I said they were stable and that they were neither seriously dragged down by scandal nor lifted by good news. So of course he hasn’t hit the highs of Bush’s highs. Bush’s post 9/11 polling numbers were literally the…

Yeah, for the life of me, I cannot remember the plot of A Far Off Place, only that it involved elephants and poaching. But I do remember 12-year old me’s reaction to Reese Witherspoon in that film:

Edit: Sorry, double post.

That right there is also the reason why you’re losing everyone under the age of 40: it’s not our obligation to be grateful for us not being Saudi Arabia. It’s not on us to be grateful that, in fact, our promises that we are the land of the free and the home of the brave are sometimes honored. Occasionally, for some of…

Minor pedantic footnote, but I think that the most accurate way of describing Megyn Kelly’s ascent is that Megyn Kelly promoted Megyn Kelly. This promotion of Megyn Kelly for many years led to promoting the Leopard’s Eating Faces Party, because the Leopard’s Eating Faces Party happens to really like the aesthetics of…

I thought they were garbage answers. Your mileage apparently varies. ::shrug:: And that’s okay!

I’ll admit that I have zero sartorial sensibilities; I dress pretty uniformly in blacks and blues precisely because I can’t tell if two items match. But I’m not sure what the kerchief is adding to that outfit, aside from a dash of color at the expense of moving your upper arms.

Yeah, I’m kind of baffled myself. The movie isn’t long or boring. It’s just patient, because the story it’s trying to tell is about impatience. It’s about a guy who doesn’t realize, and refuses to be told, that he’s obsolete and no longer necessary to the smooth functioning of a machine. And building up the friendship…

Er, I think one of her main problems was precisely that it wasn’t as close as she thought. Clinton had been mathematically eliminated for some time before the formal end of the nomination process, and functionally eliminated some time before that. Obama had a really solid campaign plan, whereby he would go all-out to…

Honestly, this comes across as the words of somebody who doesn’t live or work in a red or even warm blue district. The reality Nancy Pelosi is familiar with that I genuinely get the sense that most progressives don’t understand is that most of the biggest wins in 2018 were moderate Democrats winning red districts.

According to my read, Trump is currently polling at 41.6% approval, and 53.5% disapproval. Support for impeachment stands at a lower level of 47.9% support, with 43.6% disapproving.

You sit there in Washington so frightened of the big, bad Republican machine you have no idea what people are thinking. I’m telling you right now, Tom DeLay is going to lose in his district. If Democrats in Washington haven’t got enough sense to OWN the issue of political reform, I give up on them entirely.

True gentlemen always know the best times to pull out and disappear.

If my knowledge of people who have a lived memory of 1960 is any indication, it was more obvious then than it is today, not less. We’re talking about what the academics refer to as “homo suspicion” or “Homohysteria”, and in the early 1960's and late 1950's? It was a huge deal.

I remember him mainly for the fact that he has the Piece of Resistance stuck to his back:

We’ve seen similar arcs, but no, not that arc. The trouble is, you kind of have to make a movie that Hollywood either cannot make, or no longer wants to make anymore. You’ll have to forgive me, as I just managed to get to Scorsese’s The Irishman over the weekend, and I’m still kind of mulling it. But it occurs to me…

He always did look good in a tux.