I occasionally get recalled or have to respond to things in the middle of the night. Outside of work, I could only imagine having the "is someone dead?" anxiety to explain why people look at the texts.

I think that Lincoln's handling of the post war period had some of the same issues as Ford pardoning Nixon. You can do the thing that feels good, and is perhaps even Just, but how do you get back to normal after the War is decided? For another example, look at what we did with the Ba'ath party after...

I keep seeing Conservatives on my feed sharing dumb things the women of the View say or do. Kathy Griffin's Trump photo is the latest, but it's happened to all of them except that one conservative. Am I missing something about the cultural relevance of the View for liberals? I'm not really a tribe j...

Believe it or not, there are non-racist ideas behind the confederate worship. My brother has a tattoo of the battle flag that he's had for over 20 years (more recently he added an American Flag). He is not a racist, though he would dispute the need for things like affirmative action. He equates the ...

So I was just playing a random brawl on Heroes of the Storm and I ended up with Leoric. If you don't know, when Leoric dies he doesn't go back to start like everyone else. He hangs around as a ghost until he heals back to life. He's fairly useless as a ghost, except that he's great for lane pushing....

Just saw Going in Style. Think Grumpy Old Men with some social commentary and crime, and it's directed by J.D. from Scrubs. I laughed my ass off at parts, others were a bit more poignant. It has made me slightly more crotchety tonight, but that's getting more normal as time goes by.

Can't agree more. We've got campus riots on our hand and Howard Dean arguing for censoring hate speech. The riots MIGHT be false flag instigators, but I think the bulk of the rioters are just angry and young. They want to fight injustice, but the worst they have right now are right wing loudmouths s...

That thought has occurred to me, but they're so oblivious that they'll never notice. Grossly, half the time they're checking out my daughters. Let's also be clear- I live in absolute fear that I'll exchange glances with a woman in the gym and she'll think I was ogling her. For real, i can't tell yo...

Must be done.



As always I am grateful for second chances, longshots that pay off, and the simple beauty of a monkey knife fight.

Mmm...if only he had some kind of department that could inform him of these things. Or maybe he's playing some kind of 5D chess where he only WANTS you to think he's ignorant on the issue. That seems to be the go-to defense of all these things. I will say that assuming dishonesty has helped me a lot...

So, the President has now declared that NATO is no longer obsolete, China is not labelled a currency manipulator, and who knows what else. My biggest issue since day one of the campaign is that I've never gotten the sense that he's thought about any of these issues for any real length of time. He's ...

One, I'm down with specific topics. It's easier to follow the flow. Except for things like Trump. If every incident got its own thread, there'd be no room for anything else. Two, I really want to see the nonprofit dedicated to starting conversations not on Kyle's terms. That was some beautiful snark.

Last act of Suicide Squad. That reminds me. DC wants to stand out from Marvel, so they go for this dark and gritty tone. Batman is now just shy of being a serial killer, Superman's a distant God and a killer as well, Ma and Pa Kent are douchebag parents instead of the ones that gave Clark his moral ...

I enjoy all kinds of movies. Suicide Squad had some glaring flaws that interfered with it for me. As in "brought me out of following the plot" flaws while I just witnessed all of the nonsense decisions. Rogue One had fewer of those moments, as I recall. BUT, I think the biggest issue is th...

I was trying to make that point to someone on FB earlier. I agree with the Administration that Assad is a bad guy, I don't need to throw this gaffe on the pile of "Trump is horrible". At some point you HAVE to filter the outrage machine or it will eat you.

I saw something about Elf, but it was really cagey, so I didn't pry. A cop, eh. They let 14 year olds from Idaho on the force now?

And he was apparently in Divergent. That's awesome!



Edit: And so ninja he posted while I was mid-post.

Damn, that sucks. I felt bad when he passed through that I couldn't be more hospitable at the time. Always seemed like a pretty smart dude.