I hestitate to point this out because it sounds like I’m supporting his opinion, but what you have (and the post has in pointing out his loses to Polgar) is an anecdote. You can’t extrapolate from a single data point, and that’s not technically what he was doing in using his wife’s driving as an example. Though he…

The fact that they’re not complete monsters is basically the Democratic platform.

You could make that argument if they made it a side scrolling 2d platform game.

Right, but we’re talking about levels that can accommodate an AT-AT walker. You could put a level inside an AT-AT with 40 dudes.

Was it a wisecracking comedy tiger sidekick?

The story is: how should a god use their power? The responsibility of being the self appointed defender of a planet under near constant threat. He’s not under threat personally, but everything around his is on an incredibly regular basis. Basically the point behind Superman is that it’s not his strength or speed that…

This is Keynsian economics, right? We're paying people to dig ditches to stimulate the economy?

That moment has got to be one of the most mundane things to ever destroy a politicians career.

The alternative is literally cartoonish super villains. I think that makes it a fairly reasonable position, as frustrating as it is.

Because it’s possible to comprehend things intellectually without being directly affected?

Obama didn’t appoint anthony scalia to the bench.

Yep. We have to vote for the mediocre and disappointing in order to stop actual monsters coming to power. It is intensely difficult to generate motivation for that.

I think they like to show they’re in control by occasionally bloodying some noses.

“I thought maternity pay was communism right up until the point I was pregnant.”

Do you mean attempting to show that they understand your current state of emotion by telling you of a time they felt the same way? That's a literal description of expressing empathy, and yes, that is a thing human beings do in almost every situation.

You're literally asking why we hold the criminal justice system to a higher moral standard than we do armed criminals.

"Its tragic when cops cross the line, but not all of them are killers or terrorists."

Do you mean to ask why we are holding the police to a higher standard than armed criminals?

Is it okay to be angrier at the murderers who have been placed in a position of authority by society and taken oaths to protect the people they've murdered?

Or, you know, they're attempting to express empathy. The assholes.