Huw Gildon

Whites voted for Dole over Clinton which breaks my mind every time I remember its true. I think you have to go back to before LBJ to find whites breaking Dem in a presidential election (polls vs elections notwithstanding etc and all that).

"Refugees should integrate and continue to British society", ok fine if that's the position how does immediately impoverishing them help achieve that. It's all just such a counter productive mess that does all the things they say they don't want. For zero political advantage AS WELL!

Tom being tied to a stake at dawn shouting "if this was fascism they wouldn't have given me a blindfold". Shots ring out. (please take this as the lighthearted joke intended...)

The absurdity of this is that the simultaneous narrative is Thatcher the Iron Lady made the hard choices that saved us from..... The horrors and privations of the seventies

For sure. It's a great place to run the beer puppy test!

They certainly didn't on the green card medical form. Take it up with them i guess.

Superb. "I'm an araneologist, and that's only the second nerdiest thing about me." is an outstanding type of person to be!

When you get a Green Card as part of the medical you have to get checked for leprosy. So what I'm saying is that I know I DEFINITELY don't have leprosy. Can the rest of you be so sure? I don't think so.

It's amazing that a Republican who grew up in the Norquist era is now saying "tax cuts are contextual". I mean, everyone knew that, but it was absolutely verboten to suggest it for years within the party

So less of an ethics rule and more of an ethics hobby then?

HAHAHAH, our old and dearly departed lab mix named Simon used to work on a principle of 'eat everything you see and then let your stomach decide if it's worth keeping in or not'.

if our brains weren’t always being cooked by the horrors of real life this place could be Actually Fun and it’s so nice to get a glimpse of what happens when it is

even if you don’t like baseball this shit was fun, right? everyone getting swept up in the same thing? I missed this

"educated liberal big city US folks" is arguably an even bigger tell of being in a media bubble than "Democrat party"

One of the particularly standout weird things about him, (and yes there are a lot) is that he doesn't appear to have encountered a single piece of artistic work he hasn't completely and utterly misunderstood. From games, to books, to film. Every time.

Baadher-Meinhof effect! Which now you know what it is, ironically, you will keep seeing it. It's existence is an example of itself.

PS - it is fascinating! We're never really good as a society at calibrating our response to authoritarian extremism. It almost always seems to be too little too late in retrospect...

Problem is we ended up at C anyway for a significant chunk of the current political class....

It's pretty much something you have to specifically ask for.... But yes arguably academic as it's clear he knew exactly what it was and did not mind which makes him unfit for office.

My sister is a slightly well known tattoo artist, she will tell you with absolute confidence it is quite simply impossible to get a Nazi symbol tattooed without knowing what it is. It's not in a flash book next to dolphins and hummingbirds is it now?

My sister is a tattoo artist. She will assure you that it is absolutely impossible to get an SS tattoo without knowing what it is. Most artists won't do it. Those that will tell you that they will. You're not picking it out of flash and choosing between that and a dolphin...

He's invented publicists.

He has to believe it's a real issue, because the alternative is to admit that it's the product of a fundamental flaw in the way US media chooses to weight issues, coincidentally a flaw that he also benefits from quite a lot.

I am not sure it's fair to say the IAGS 'really really wanted' it to be Holocaust 2.0 when they called it a genocide. I reckon likely the opposite.

goose chase meme concluding with the goose screaming 'who gives them the grades' in order to highlight the insanity of faculty's (alleged) complaint.

This is a great point. Parallels to post war Europe. For instance, in the UK the right fought tooth and nail to prevent Labour establishing of the NHS. The Churchill government voted against it 21 times. Yet it quickly became one of Britain's most beloved institutions.

Illusion of discontinuity.

Google maps driving distance from Portland MI to Springfield MI showing 52.6 miles

Currently trying to identify the closest Springfield to a Portland. So far this looks good....slow afternoon....

Self report. Of personal views. On a timeline where definitions have certainly changed. This is a giant experimental design YIKES.

Vietnam Indonesia Korea Japan and Australia on the same side? It's made it less of a contest! You've got everything from street food to insane high end. Largest range of ingredients by a long shot. Hot and cold weather food. This is unbeatable for variety alone.

Request an honorable exception once a year on Grand Final day for Horses. I'm going with 4 Non Blondes "What's Going on", and everything Van Morrison has ever done.