It’s especially good for people who hate metaphors:

Both Trump and the Republican Party agree with the principles of the narcissist prayer. The only major difference is why they agree. Trump agrees because he’s a gigantic man-baby who is desperate to fill the gaping hole inside his heart.

I stepped over one of those lines recently, by saying something on Twitter that I mistakenly thought was noncontroversial: “I would never consider diversity in matters of art. Only quality. It seems to me that to do otherwise would be wrong.” The subject was the Academy Awards. I also said, in essence, that those…

Turns out, there’s quite a lucrative market for enabling privileged white people. Sure, there’s nothing actually in the Bible that says what everyone else calls privilege is actually God’s favor, and that because they have God’s favor, any damn fool notion that pops into their noggin is divine. But what the Bible says…

I don’t know about anyone else, but I’d gladly take the woman who dances like nobody’s looking over the guy who gropes like nobody cares six days a week, and twice on Sunday.

The thing with good science fiction and good fiction in general is that there are rules and logic in their made up stuff

All I remember from Nemesis was Picard violating the Prime Directive for no real reason with his dune buggy. I get Patrick Stewart wanted to have more action scenes but they could have at least worked it into the narrative better.

IANAD, but it was my distinct understanding that drowning and strangulation are two of the most difficult, involved ways of killing another human being, precisely because you’re fighting another human’s strongest autonomic nervous system response: to inhale and exhale. If they pass out, and you let them out of the…

. . . It took me way too long to get this joke.

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?