As a Gen X’er, I recall how smoothly and easily we all transitioned into the world. We simply rolled our sleeves up, found a white guy with short hair, and said “Heya boss. I’m here to work. What needs to get done?” And he’d tell us things to get done. And we’d do those things. The things got done, and we made the…

Go get ‘em, Krampus Portishead!

out on tour with the smashing pumpkins

Eh, by the time you’ve got a fracas on your hands, you’ve usually gone a smidge or two past a kerfluffle.

Gotta nip a fracas in the bud or it could turn into a full-blown donnybrook lickety-split.

“My textbook for Math 25, at Harvard, where I was a math major, was only 300! I tested into Math 55, but couldn’t take it, at Harvard, because I was also QB for the Harvard football team.”

I’m paying a dollar to watch Joe vs the Volcano right now!

I’m paying a dollar to watch Joe vs the Volcano right now!

cotd tbh

I work 50-60 hours a week doing cognitive behavioral therapy with at-risk kids, as I have for the past 8 years. In my free time, I help with political organization/voter registration in this area (we have some good programs, which is part of why this is one of the few rural counties in the region HRC won). I post a…

I’m bored and I’ve bummed myself out a little that the flimsiest, most absurd responses I can give to arguments are points commenters are still willing to engage with and attack because no matter how daft and facile an argument clearly is it’s something that has probably actually been advanced, in “good faith,” by…

I think it’s important to have both. Each is very good at what it does. I just have no idea what does or does not generate clicks here, and it seems like posts to the Concourse have been trickling lately.

I just think it is hard to say how long Trump will be in power. He has already proven himself to be a disruptive force who thinks outside of established norms. I’d say that, at this point, it’s basically all on the table and up for negotiation.

Seems like a pretty good businessman to me, considering he has an empire. He also seems pretty shrewd, considering how he outfoxed Clinton and the Dems who were supposed to be so much smarter than him.

That’s a great question. Let me give you an example of something I think that Democrats could try. There is so much anxiety over how Trump will fill the SCOTUS vacancy. Now Trump is a great businessman, and he has some very definite ideas about issues like trade and budgets and regulations, but he’s more of a “blank…

No, I understand. I try to be a good sport when it comes to the godless, glassy-eyed Clintonistas and Bernie Bros on this site. I get a similar kind of pushback when I advocate moderating the discourse on Breitbart. Like I always say, both sides are really very similar and have so much to learn from each other if they…

I was sure you, of all people, would understand, Chris.

It is an example of just character assassination in bad faith. It is similar to the admitted untruths the Right has told about the Clintons. Both sides just keep attacking each other with false narratives, and we end up where we are today. Sad, really.

The commenter did not make up the Gingrich story himself. It has been in wide circulation since the 90s, and it has really damaged the discourse in this nation. If we are going to have a civil discourse, both sides have to commit to being rigorously honest.

I have fact checked the Gingrich story. As it turns out, although his wife had had cancer (for which she needed both chemo and surgery) she had actually recovered from the cancer and was simply having surgery on an additional, but benign, tumor that had been discovered when Gingrich visited her in the hospital to…

Remember when Chait and Coates got into it a couple of years ago? That was....not evenly matched.