Manning always seems to believe she should be able to do civil disobedience for free.

Yeah, I do have to wonder (idly; not enough to watch the show and find out) how much the formula would be disrupted by a man or woman who has separated from their parents because those parents are toxic. Do those people just not have a place in the Bachelor-verse, or could the show incorporate such a void of drama?

Yeah, it’s a self-esteem booster for people who forget that “statistics” is the bookend for “lies, damned lies, and . . .” And I’m saying that as one of those kids who did used to use their IQ as a self-esteem booster. It’s really a lot healthier to base your self-esteem on something you do, not on some trait which…

Well, part of the problem with doing that is that it highlights how . . . um, let’s say “variable” they are about what they’ll adapt, and what they’ll just chuck in the vault, never to see the light of day again.

The Book of Revelations: The framers of the New Testament can never be accused of writing a boring ending, though whether it’s bad depends on your state of mind.

Yeah, the Stanford-Binet IQ Test that groups like Mensa use to select for membership have a really fundamental problem: there’s no clear understanding of what exactly these IQ tests actually measure. It’s literally the “Underpants Gnome Problem”, except in random distribution form. You can test people, and their…

“I be fine with a woman as President. But I just don’t want Christine LaGarde to be that President.”

I don’t disagree. But I’d also note that your description could just as fairly describe Dumbo, which Bob Iger was perfectly willing to rewrite and cash in on. If you’ve forgotten how much “holy shit, that’s racist!”-level racism there is in Dumbo, please review:

I’m torn on this. Because everyone who gets this disease then becomes a vector for spreading it to other people, who might well not be guilty of anything other than having to spend time with Trump fans.

And yet, he’s the candidate we have, regardless of what we want. And unlike beef, you can’t just wrap Joe Biden up in cellophane and stick him in a freezer in hopes that you can defrost him come October. Biden is supposed to beat Donald Trump. And Donald Trump isn’t going to go easy on Joe.

Yeah, the argument that Sanders put forward during the campaign was “We have a bloc of voters that will show up, and will put us over the top, who will vote for me, but won’t vote for just any candidate.”

Pshaw. Voter turnout has surged among moderate voters, and your opinion is that it is a bad thing for Biden to get more and more voters in the habit of voting for him?

Respectfully, Sen. Sanders has repeatedly disavowed online harassment. He’s not cool with that, and he’s said so repeatedly.

So it’s better to have a man who is handsy with women, and doesn’t really do any denouncing of other men who yell at women online who don’t support him, than a man who insufficiently denounces other men who yell at women online that do support him. Got it.

Fair enough. If I went god mode, I’d go for far more radical changes that would turn states into nothing more than administrative units, and I’d just go with a straight parliamentary-style democracy rather than our constitutional system. I was selecting for policies that I think would stick long-term with my “Emperor…

I’d say there’s actually something even more fundamental, albeit tied in to “righting the ship”: breaking the Republican hammerlock on the Senate. If I’d had my druthers, and been Emperor of the World for a day, the first through sixth thing I’d have done in that day would be to 1) abolish the filibuster in the US…

Obligatory public health reminder, courtesy of The Flash when trapped in Lex Luthor’s body:

Every prediction you’ve made so far has been laughably wrong, so... Your mouth to God’s ears.

The fact that I’m the first person to point out that Army of Darkness is easily as quotable as The Princess Bride may well explain why nobody ever understands me:

“My name is Zoot. Just Zoot” is a quote that gets surprising amount of play.