Always important, though, not to confuse Slipknot with some of the offbrand knock-off bands out there:

Adopt stupid policies, win stupid prizes, Governor. And the worst part is, everything about this was predictable. We knew from China and Korea how the disease was spread, and how you beat that disease. We knew from China and Korea that by the time you knew that there was an outbreak in your city, that you already had…

Yeah, if there is room in Biden’s political capital budget for laws to pass after he gets the coronavirus under control, he should spend it all on getting as many territories made into states as possible. Puerto Rico. District of Columbia. US Virgin Islands, American Samoa and Guam if at all possible.

Best of luck, though I must note as someone who just started RDR last weekend, I couldn’t save my progress because for some reason, I couldn’t complete my login on my X-Box One for an X-Box 360 game. There was some kind of backwards-compatability issue I couldn’t work out.

What can you say to someone like this? It sounds like he got a C- in Econ 101 and that is the extent of what he understands about how markets work. How does he think “more competition” would work for medical care? After suffering a sudden, catastrophic injury, he would have shopped around for the cheapest care? Like,…

They decide to see Dead Poets Society. I told them to enjoy their movie, I was going to see Batman. Missed opportunity? Maybe at the time. In hindsight, hell no.

 Still, with Tulsa County seeing what its health director called “steep upward trends” of coronavirus cases, it’s a little worrying that the 74-year-old president, the oldest person to hold executive office, chose to gather his own super-spreader event. Is he OK? Is he trying to get out of a second term?

Exactly. This is a case where, sure, in an ideal world, the ideal amount of waste would be $0. Nobody’s in favor of errors and waste.

And finally, obviously, The Chic Dix

You must not be terribly familiar with Johnny Cash as an artist then. Cash was pretty much legendary in his later career for creating covers that so radically changed and elevated the work that many original writers felt that the song was no longer theirs. Trent Reznor, for instance, has explicitly stated that “Hurt”…

Yeah, this once again comes down to the fact that in the conservative mind, protesters who challenge police brutality challenge the state, while protesters who challenge wearing face masks are the state. The beauty of being white in America, in the Fox News mindset, is that every white then has the privilege to claim l…

To afford Nadler as much leeway as possible, even if I’m ultimately just giving him enough rope to hang himself, in professional white people world, the hierarchy of sins usually works something like this:

If they don’t literally mean they want to abolish the police they shouldn’t pretend they actually want that and but then try to calm the people with reasonable questions about that by saying “just kidding, it’s code for something else and I’m just saying it in bad faith to open the ‘overton window.’”

Oh look, one of those guys! In one of the saddest statements of my life, I live for dealing with those guys. To whit, you are absolutely correct that words do have meanings, and that is why seeming pedantry actually matters.

This needs to be noted more often, because this is an important contextual clue about police expectations that is all-too frequently ignored. When Eric Garner was murdered by the NYPD, he was originally being cited for selling loose cigarettes without a license to do so or without paying city duties on the cigarettes,…

Sure, there are a few people who, by saying “defund the police”, the actual slogan, they mean “abolish the police”. But most people mean something more akin to “debundle the police”. Certainly that’s what I mean.

He concluded that “the Democrat Party will be held captive by the most radical political mob in modern American history. Their power and electoral success appears to be growing day by day.”

In fairness, I think he’s trying to atone retroactively for that.

Hey now. There’s nothing wrong with posing erotically with a carp . . .