So SOMETHING is happening. But is it stress over the (surprising!) Republican resistance to his unqualified DNI nominee, an upcoming revelation about his finances, or just another chunk of neurons dissolving into soup? Taking all bets!

Party affiliation is not really relevant in the territories (PR, USVI, AS, etc.) They don’t have voting seats in the national legislature, so the party organizations don’t have any reason to significantly invest in politicians from the territories or insist they take specific party positions. Tom Perez can tell the…

The private sector is great at responding to WANTS, but it sucks at handling NEEDS. I want the private sector developing consumer goods and software, not rationing insulin.

It’s also objectively true though, at least in the contemporary US. It is not a smear to (accurately) state that we are (on average) more promiscuous than the het'ros, the smear is the associated moral judgement.

Well said.

I don’t think that’s what they’re implying. Rather, if there was just a photo/video of him having normal consensual sex with an adult, it might be personally embarrassing for him but wouldn’t really hurt his career. He would give some tearful interviews about how evil the press was for outing him and how his personal…

He fled the scene of a fatal accident. That's one of the most severe violations of traffic law possible.

Dark-universe Colin Jost.

I’d say it was because enough of them operated in good faith. It’s like herd immunity - you only need a few anti-vaxxers to bring back a plague.

Listening to Ben Shapiro makes me want to slap Ben Shapiro, so...

This topic gets grim when I bring it up with my parents. They’re boomers who actually changed their views in response to the evolving world around them, and do their best to be conscientious inhabitants. Some of their lifelong friendships ended because their former friends could not, would not engage with reality. It…

Yikes, did not imply that she was doing this out of self-interest. I’m saying I understand why she did it in the first place - she was disillusioned and wanted to expose serious misdeeds on behalf of the US military. She was caught after penetrating a secure network using hacking tools supplied to her by an outfit we…

IIRC the reason she was penalized so severely is that her WikiLeaks contact convinced her to use hacking tools to gain access to confidential data outside of her clearance, which meant that rather than leaking she was actually committing espionage. In other words, she’s willing to return to prison to protect the…

Putin DOES want it to happen. The Iranian populace is pretty pro-US even if their government isn’t, and even Iran’s government is aware that Russia is one of the worst allies that they could have. But if the United States attacks Iran (especially under an overtly racist President who doesn't even pretend to be…

If being socially ostracized in high school was the main factor that turnspeople into assholes, every out gay man from the class of 2010 and earlier would listen to Alex Jones and live in a compound made from unsold copies of the fountainhead 

His skills as a general cannot forgive or mitigate the evil regime he enabled, but he was an undoubtedly brilliant tactician. The Confederacy would never have lasted four years without him; probably not even two. He deserves no statues or public celebration, but when Westpoint cadets study his strategies it's not…

I didn't know you were such a coin-no-sewer.

That is a very accurate description of Saudi Arabia, and about 25 years out of date if you’re describing contemporary Iran. 

Because Assange directed hacking by giving Manning instructions on how to break into a secure computer. Publishing the stolen documents isn't illegal, telling sometime to steal them is.

My brother is getting his master’s in computer science there. The economics department is infamously Fox-y - when he took an elective as an undergrad the professor was a huge proponent of the gold standard- but engineering and hard sciences are pretty excellent. The Koch's got involved with Mason because it's a…