It does seem a bit like it is to legitimate theological thought or yearning what The Secret is to the Golden Dawn.

I listen to a lot of NPR, even once went to a taping of Whaddya Know (it was a family trip to visit my sister who was living in Madison at the time) but I find that puzzle show both obnoxious and embarrassing simultaneously.

I agree they're complicit in bigotry. That doesn't make them bigots, though, and writing them off as such isn't going to help.

So back in high school some friends and I were in a computer science project. I mostly wrote the paper, and I decorated it with random quotes from movies and things, including Army of Darkness and Airplane!.

This is the same guy that (rightly) was mad at Bush because of Katrina, right?

It's spookier. Trolls, almost by definition, lack power.

So the Trump philosophy seems to be: find the bizarro world version of the ideal person to run a given agency, put them in charge of said agency.

What, uh, world building is he referring to? Transforming robots from beyond the moon that inexplicably make crude jokes about bodily functions they wouldn't have while making pop-culture references and generally behaving like amoral teenage boys that also destroy cities?

I love how Patti Smith just shows up in the most random places and situations.

Truly strange times when Alec Baldwin and SNL are in a better position to save our pluralistic democracy than any of our constitutional checks & balances are.

Lewis Black made this exact point not too far into the election - like when Republican standard bearer Trump didn't yet seem inevitable, let alone President-elect Trump. If I remember correctly, anyway.

"Doctor Batman" is the title of a TV show that I would absolutely watch.

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It's good that we have decided that the bottom line is the best way to organize society. Scrooge really had the right idea.

It is worrisome that the next President of a nuclear armed nation is facing the moral dilemmas I faced and now feel bad about facing in like high school and early college.

I am thinking about getting a Twitter account solely to harass President Trump.

She backed up his tweet with one of her own. She's all in.

On the bright side, it's very possible we won't last four years.

That sounds right.

I wasn't a crackhead under Obama, but I am thinking of taking up the habit. So, kudos, Mr. Woods, very prescient.