Matt is correct about budget and planning, and others are correct about this clown’s inability to click through a Powerpoint deck, but there’s more. Ever since Reagan rolled out his “let me show you some simple charts” act conservatives get the warm fuzzies from this kind of thing. The “homemade” feeling also appeals…

Yes. That smirking little “I can tell” at the end is the giveaway.

It’s more chronic bullshit than pathogical lies:

That’s exactly what happened in the development of the USSR’s network, according to the author. Everyone working on the idea had his own little fiefdom competing against the others and jealously hoarded information, the latter enabled by the censorship culture.

It’s also the reason that, as the saying goes, the Internet interprets censorship [i.e. disruption to a node] as damage and routes around it. Given the integral role censorship played in Soviet society, I’m sure it affected their ability to build a robust network like the one MITRE Corp helped develop.

You avatar is appropriate. Like me, I’m sure you view “The Big Lebowski” and “Office Space” as companion pieces and touchstones.

People come to the racist conclusion because they mistakenly believe it’s endorsing eugenics instead of using it as a silly plot conceit.

“Idiocracy” was a funny (YMMV) expression of misanthropy, like most of Judge’s work. He implicates everyone for the flaws in our systems and celebrates only those who opt out of them in their own ways. If someone is using this movie as anything more than a way to point out the follies of humanity in general and the…

Professional speakers who are aware of branding and PR don’t get so caught up in the toxic emotion of the mob they’re addressing that they confirm the worst expectations of outside observers regarding the (highly scripted) event.

I love the sheepish look on her face as she realizes that she got caught up in this fascist spectacle to the point that she gave a big old shout-out to all the white supremacists indahouse.

It just goes to show you how idiotic his Christian fundie supporters are: born suckers.

“He has always paid women what they’re worth and paid them comparably.”

Notably absent from the list is Peter Thiel, who’ll be celebrating the Apricot Grifter’s triumph by appearing as a speaker at the GOP convention.

Not necessary? It’s that and the idiotic howling that makes the game.

The best responses to WBC seem to be like this one in Orlando. Once the Phelps family sees that they’re not going to be physically attacked in response to their hatred and thus won’t be able to file a lawsuit, these cowardly con artists turn tail and run.

It’s interesting that conservatives go right to assuming he meant oppression or killing them (projection much?). Even more so considering that WBC is a racket that just happens to use religion to drive its litigation factory.

WBC’s go-to Pokemon, SlipAndFallacious, will be no match for it.

Even funnier will be their reaction when the intern explains to these legal scam artists that they can’t sue anyone and make money off it.

With the rise of right-wing populism thanks to the Orange Grifter he sees his moment again.

Many of them, yes. But the real point of commonality is that they’re losers or near-losers in the neoliberal economic consensus who’ve been played for suckers by the GOP establishment for 35 years and only recently woke up to the fact.