The Hall of Fire

Obama's ME policy was designed to scale back from the batshit crazy levels of W to the merely dangerous levels of every president before him. But once you've gone batshit, it's hard to go back.

Re the removal of monuments, I recall a spirited discussion back in the early days of b77, about the ethics of deleting posts. It strikes me that removing these monuments is like deleting posts; it disrespects the integrity of past conversation. It says, we, now, are all that matters. This is a dee...

My view would be violence was justified against the Nazis once removing them through non-violent means had become impossible. IOW, once they dismantled the democratic process. Of course, at that point they've, you know, dismantled the democratic process, so it's too late to do anything else. It wou...

The Carrier deal was of course stupidly popular, even though it's pretty pointless: http://www.businessinsider.com/united-tech-ceo-says-trump-deal-will-lead-to-more-automation-fewer-jobs-2016-12 http://www.forbes.com/sites/eriksherman/2016/12/04/trumps-carrier-deal-means-nothing-for-future-jobs/#67...

So Kian loved the first book in English this year ("Ender's Game") and hates the second ("The Book Thief"). As in refuses to read past page fifty. The teacher alerted us to this fact while I was out of the country, and my wife dutifully assured him we'd do something about it. I ...

eborr wrote: I like Tilda Swinton - even if she generally does "Tilda Swinton" in most of the roles she takes on

A little like Cate Blanchett in that regard--it takes a solid director to pull her actual acting ability out of her.

But consider Wisconsin -- there were approximately 140k fewer votes cast in 2016 compared to 2012 Wisconsin had something else going on: http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/milwaukee/2016/11/10/milwaukee-elections-head-says-voter-id-law-hurt-citys-turnout/93607154/ And it's always nice to see ...

The raw numbers don't tell the whole story. There's many different possibilities, as the county-by-county results will show when they're finalised. Many people who voted for Obama in 2012 didn't vote this time. Certainly people who voted for Romney didn't vote this time (like the Bushes, who didn't...

Okay, looking at the actual numbers: Trump got roughly the same number of votes Romney lost with, but Hilary got 5 million fewer votes than Obama did in 2012. The results didn't come about because tons of people changed parties, or because rural voters were determined to send a message, or any othe...

Something I received from my Senatorial candidate today which hit the pause button on my research into getting out of Dodge: This is the email where I’m supposed to thank you for all you’ve done for me, tell you how much it meant to me, and then say my goodbyes and wish you luck on your journey. I’...