Yeah I feel obliged to note, partly out of pedantry but also because it’s a really serious political problem, that the sentence below comes with a rather large asterisk:

Eh, it’s a question of law that would have to be resolved prior to the prosecution of the case, which is something that a criminal defense attorney can always do so long as he does so early enough. Unfortunately, it’s been years since I’ve handled any kind of criminal matter, so the term of art for such a filing…

Mad Max: Fury Road

There’s a surprising dearth of optimal .gifs to express my approval; there’s not a lot of .gifs devoted to people in costumes dealing a righteous butt-kicking.

Credit where credit is due: Good on Hillary Clinton for saying this. Her comments may have been received slightly better if she had led with this message from the beginning, but good on her for emphasizing it now, and better late than never. I approve very much of her correcting the record, and grant unreserved kudos…

About the best I can say of Alan Dershowitz is that he’s typical of the average litigation attorney I’ve met. Note: I didn’t say good litigation attorneys.

I’d make the argument that if someone chooses to not vote for a Sanders ticket because of 2016 then they aren’t really a Democrat, just like someone who chose not to vote for Clinton in 2016 isn’t really a Democrat. Only now, we know the price of not voting/voting R/Voting 3rd party, and anyone who tries to justify…

Respectfully, I think Obama’s finest act will have been to pave the way for more-determined reformers like Bernie. Obama, for better or worse, accepted the rules of the game as offered, and played the game as well as it can be played. And to his credit, he did a lot of good for a lot of people with the political…

In the doc, you’re brutally honest on Sanders: “He was in Congress for years. He had one senator support him. Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done. He was a career politician. It’s all just baloney and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it.” That assessment still hold?

Not bad, but #2 on that list is already taken by Demolition Man:

As I recall, the only laugh of that scene was Palmer’s precision usage of an F-bomb. Which was, bar none, the single best of use of the F-word in cinematic history.

Also horse girl. You’re in good company.

Overall the key takeaway is that organised labour is important. King married the race and class dimensions, but that is often ignored in favour of a sanitised view of him as purely an anti-racist. Ultimately there is nothing the establishment fears more than everyday people united both racially and on class lines.

It’s not. If you’d prefer the term “Eisenhower Republican”, use that instead. The point in either case is the same: nothing that Warren espouses would be considered anything but business as usual if this were 1956.

They did Warren few favors by calling her a radical, though. I was just trying to convince my dad the other day that her ideas weren’t as radical as they seemed, and here’s the fucking NYT undoing all my hard work. I see Warren’s (and Sanders’s) campaigns as sensible, progressive campaigns. Calling them radical…

“In this election, British voters face a choice between divergent visions for the nation’s future.

I wish (or rather, do not wish given the subject matter) that this was my story. Rather, this is the story about how I taught a co-worker an invaluable cooking lesson.

As jarring as this was to see this photo on Lara Trump’s Instagram story (with the message “Get your #Trump2020 Snapchat filters today”), she’s, unfortunately, not pretending to be a representative for The Blacks™. She’s promoting Black Voices For Trump, an organization for black supporters of President Trump.