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More heat than light emanating from this discussion, but…maybe that simply reflects that people on “both sides” (if we may simplify, for convenience’s sake, our audience into the binary “Liberal vs. Conservative” labels) not only hold passionate feelings about the issue, but almost inherently...

I hear Nebraska’s nice.

They’re eating the Bulldogs!

Is it just ‘cause I’m old that I actually remember a time when there was such a thing as “career-ending scandal comes to light, politician forced out of office?” There’s no line anymore; certainly it’s long been erased for the GOP. Dems did the right thing with Menendez; not that they got...

The basic problem is that, LONG before most adherents to [Faith “X,” whatever it is] reach adulthood and thus the ability to really and rationally think for themselves, they’ve already had that faith’s beliefs internalized and accepted as self-evident, installed by people they inherently...

I’m from Springfield.

Dunno if this really qualifies as “playing Devil’s Advocate,” but, I don’t think I buy one of the things I consistently hear about the existential dangers of Trumpism (as opposed to Trump himself.) I think that Trump truly is sui generis—the threat from HIM is deadly severe, and very real, and...

If nothing else, maybe the silver lining here is that people will FINALLY slow down and read all the fine print in those “terms and conditions” blurbs instead of just scrolling straight to the bottom to click “Accept.”

I think even if you’re a Conservative/Republican who finds most/all of those policy positions abhorrent, BUT You want America to continue as a functional democracy (and, if you don’t, fuck off and die), Harris is still your obvious choice. At the very least, she will preserve the Republic for...

Nice try, Dodger McDodgerson. If Kamala Harris can suddenly choose to become black, you could just as easily choose to become white. Even just for a day—a nice day at the golf course, perhaps?

I cannot be the only one who bemoans the degraded state of what has come to pass as “marksmanship” in this once-proud country.

Shame he wasn’t immediately asked, “How fucking much do you really need to know about a bomb threat to condemn it? Is there a legitimate reason to use bomb threats that you’re specifically thinking of, that you can point us to?” Is it really not enough simply to know there have been bomb...

You’re making this harder than it is. He wants it to be working that way …therefore it is.

Every single human in history (of any age) who’s ever killed another one…had parents. You don’t “become the parent of a mass shooter” so much as you “become the parent of…a baby.” If that baby grows up to shoot someone, you achieve that other label only well after the fact, and, barring some...

I bought a book over the weekend by Steve Benen (he’s a producer for Rachel Maddow’s show) called “Ministry of Truth,” subtitled “Democracy, Reality, and the Republican’s War on the Recent Past.” Basically, it’s about RVonse, writ large, and the most depressing thing about it is the inescapable...

I’m gonna go way out on a limb and guess “no.” Just like the other day when 1. he said the military should be deployed along the border to control immigration 2. I pointed out they are prohibited by law from doing that 3. Crickets from then on. People like that don’t have it in them. They...

If that is a pun, it’s a damned good one, and well played. (And if you, Bilby, are engaged in an endeavor which places you in the eye of the oddsmakers, well, I wouldn’t bet against you.) heh

Does the kick in the balls have to be from one of us, or can it be from like a horse or something? And if it can be from a horse, do we get to pick the horse? (Sorry—but if the run-up to the Sept.10 presidential debate has taught me anything, it’s that the details matter.)

You needn’t pull a hamstring leaping to Trump’s defense; the OP was, and is, a hypothetical. And within it is the (unstated) premise that, if Trump never goes to jail for something he was convicted of, for which prison was an option, what would the underlying reason be? It goes without saying...

Dirt on judges? Bribes? Afraid of their own skeletons exposed? Technically possible, maybe, in the sense that all things not violating how the universe works are possible, but…vanishingly unlikely, to the point it’s not worth really giving serious consideration to. Because the rich and...