Having consulted her wikipedia page, I can say that at all of 43 years old, this would be the perfect time for her to be Jane Pauley’ed off the show for someone just as blond and unabashedly basic, but 15-20 years younger and less able to negotiate a contract. That is how capitalism, and more importantly the…

Yeah, if you really wanted to boil down the problem that these protestors are having, it really is no more complex than they are unaccustomed to, and therefore cannot handle, being told “no.”

Yeah, that’s me popping off. In truth, I’m just as much an absolutist on the Fourth and Fifth Amendment as the First. So while I may fantasize about the whole “lose the paperwork”, the legal scholar in me has to insist that due process be observed, and that these individuals not be subjected to any unnecessary or…

You’ll get no argument on that point from me, and to be extremely clear, I’m not saying that we will, in any way, be able to change their minds using government force. Even if I hadn’t read my Augustine on the subject, which I have, the simple fact is that these people’s entire mentality is built on the foundation…

Yeah, I’m reminded of the concept of “law school hot”, and wondering if there might some weird reality show parallel concept at work here. Admittedly, I’m a straight male, but I’m also confident enough in my sexuality, and more pertinently, a good enough eye, to point at another guy and say “wow, that is one darn good…

I’m not kidding.

I’ve often said that was, bar none, the best bit of physical acting I’ve ever seen in my life. All he does is take off the glasses and straighten himself:

Not only do I agree, I think you can make your point even more strongly, because the simple fact is that the economy won’t bounce back if there’s a pandemic going on, regardless of what people do, or what the President directs. The fundamental, Rule Zero critique of the President’s proposal isn’t even that it’s…

Any payments you make during this time will go toward the principal balance.

This is some choice comment/username synergy right here. Good work, sir or madam.

This, this. A thousand times this.

“Back in Obama’s day, you know what were the #1 and #2 killer of Americans? Heart disease and cancer. One and two, the whole way through. Thanks Obama. He did nothing.”

Well, the sad thing is, there isn’t that much dot-connecting going on, and I actually kind of feel bad for not recognizing it sooner. Obviously, I’m looking at it with my six-year old eyes, and I suspect Lucas is, too. Lucas is very clearly playing with an unreconstructed version of the trope where the evil leader,…

I’m . . . less convinced than you that Kasdan could have saved it, just because the production process was way different for the OT than it was for the ST.

As a child of the 80's, whose love of Yoda in no small part encouraged me to go get an actual philosophy undergraduate degree, I can say two things about George Lucas with a fair degree of certainty. First, for someone who wrote and created such a timeless story about good and evil, he’s got a really impoverished…

Yeah, the short answer is: there is no bottom.

Mr. DeSantis, there are two ways to deal with this problem. You either kill this virus by vaccinating everyone, or, the absence of a vaccine, you cut off its ability to spread. Ron, you have to close the beaches.

To give Trump (who does not deserve it), and his followers (who “deserve” it only in the sense that if I want to call myself “good people”, I have to grant it when I’m merely “very sure” rather than “absolutely positive” they don’t deserve it) the benefit of every last doubt, Trump is currently exploiting the baseline…