It's not that they didn't clap for his speech*, it's the things in the speech they didn't clap or stand for. In the optics of this, the Dems made it way too easy to make them look bad. On the one hand, they signaled unity against Trump. On the other, it should have been easy to predict that there we...

the hypocrisy of democrat supporters for taking credit for the economy less than a week ago and now blaming Trump for the correction I still remember when a Republican co-worker told me that Clinton had nothing to do with the economy during his term because "the economy takes about 8 years to ...

It's not even JUST about the conspiracy theory crowd. The media made a huge deal out of the Comey memo, which is just one party in a meeting writing about it later. It's only evidence to the extent that you trust Comey's version of events buffered slightly by having a date stamp. I haven't read this...

Saw Three Billboards last night. I think it's earned the awards hype it's gotten. It's dark, it's complex, it's funny. It even has a pretty good message that didn't feel like it was being hammered at me. Think I loved every minute of it.

Got a moviepass for Christmas, so far this year in order of viewing

Molly's Game
Three Billboards
Black Panther
Ready Player One
A Quiet Place

It really doesn't seem like the Dems got much out of this shutdown. The Republicans showed over the last several years that being obstructionist and a little bit loony about the other party's President certainly doesn't LOSE you elections, but I'm struggling to see why this and why now. I feel for t...

Ben Shapiro posited yesterday that Trump is a political version of the Rational Market hypothesis. You can't take him down with scandal because no scandal really adds information to the "market". No one is shocked that Trump had sex with an adult film actress, or that he committed adultery...

Caz is right that if we were making decisions about how to institute taxation systems purely for the country's financial health, this would be the wrong way to go about doing it. It's much better if the wealth generated gets reinvested in some way. Buying stocks may seem like a reinvestment but the...

The Republican argument is that a tax cut is not giving money to the rich. They had the money already, this just lets them keep more of what they made. And that's actually a true position. It may be that we need certain spending and the best way to fund that spending is by taxing the wealthy more, b...

I think Bannon certainly has his own agenda here and should not be completely trusted. BUT, some of the things I've seen reported from this book gibe with my own observations of this administration. The idea that he didn't really want to win and was not acting like a winner as the election night wen...

Think he meant politicians see all of us as resources and don't actually care about us. Which is certainly true in many cases.

The milk was just an excuse to reference the blue milk from the original movie. If you want to be charitable, it was showing that Luke had regressed somewhat in his hermitage. I'm about 1/3rd in favor of what they did to Snoke. Who is he, why does he hate Luke, it doesn't really matter. This is Rey'...

The only reason people are defending Roy Moore, that I can see, is tribalism. Some of them justify it in part by saying that Democrats were fine with Bill Clinton's behavior, or some other deflection. FWIW, Ben Shapiro was criticizing the moral contortions of Moore's defenders last week. Trump vs. K...

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I like Cate Blanchett, so I want to say that her performance probably suffered from being mostly in "serious" scenes and only having Karl Urban to work off of most of the time (I also think he's a good actor). It was kind of structured like a comedy with a drama tacked on. Which didn't mak...

Man spent years in Taleban captivity. I'm not crying tears over it, all things considered, but Leavenworth would be a step up for him. This way we don't have to pay for his upkeep.

Did they prove he was trying to join them?

Not sure about 17 year olds marrying each other, but seems pretty horrible. Think I can get behind ending that loophole.

Did someone say dental instruments?