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Christianity is suffering the same fate as American conservativism; the crazies are drowning out the sane people and turning off the undecided.

Bummer. I enjoyed half-heartedly respecting that man and using him as an example of who isn't a ding bat to my conservative friends.

Sooooo.... this got signed. How do you feel about it? Who finds it difficult to comprehend? (me)

I'm no moderator, but I think "getting political" over what powers the Executive Office has to nominate a justice of the Supreme Court is good. "Getting political" over pillow-gate and questioning each others' sanity, reasonableness, or wording is bad. It did produce some comedy, I'll give it that. Just my $0.02.

How many nominations have they had at this point? A lot. That's saying something.

Broadcasting the truth when it is argumentatively convenient doesn't change the fact that it's true. This is a basic principle in rhetoric.

No, I think he's saying it's absurd to presuppose blocking a nominee before any specific person is actually mentioned.

The idea that someone can't be rightfully called a piece of shit because of the office they've achieved is thoroughly undemocratic.

Here's my question to you all: At this point, is a vote for Donald Trump a vote for the DNC? Is he the destroyer of the GOP?

Holy moly, I watched the highlights over at npr. Rubio repeated the same bit so identically 3 times that I thought I'd accidentally bumped the rewind. Christie starts tearing him up and he just repeats "The problem is this notion that Barack Obama doesn't know what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing..." It was like someone dosed his water bottle and he went into a fugue state.

No they weren't. They were too immersed in Orwellian double speak to hit that bluntly. So Obama speaking at a mosque to insure American Muslims that they're part of our nation and welcome is used as an example of how he's "dividing our country on racial lines"? Because at the end of the day Rubio's a Dolphins fan, but you may be a Patriots fan? Curioser and curioser. It seems Marco is trying to channel some of that Palin oratory. Probably why he's stumped on the same script for a year.

You don't need to dig for racism with Rubio. His record has plenty of other problems that are easier to prove.

The youtube videos are on pitchfork. RNG was as rocking as ever.

I just saw it in the book store. It's kind of a curated conversation with both of them. A person from the magazine asks an occasional question, and then they each go off and respond to each other. Good content on creativity, but fairly short.

Yeah, for those curious, he says the material was started at the same time as what ended up becoming Star Wars, they just divided it up by style. Tweedy describes these songs as "a fucked-up country record." He says it's about finished, but they're not in a big hurry to put it out.

So "a win" is merely an indicator of momentum, while the delegates won help the candidate's progress towards a numeric win? I guess what I'm wondering is if Clinton's win is symbolic while her delegates puts her an almost negligible one ahead of Sanders?

How droll!

I find myself rooting for Trump based on my hopeful belief that he would never be elected. Nevertheless, I can't wait to see him respond to losing. I loved Carson's speech which started with Joseph Stalin.

I think we can all agree that someone's candidate sucks, and America needs to get gooder.

Yeah. I think I'm trying to check my bias. A lot of my more intelligent friends have questioned the impulse on the left to say, "Well if cops are killing unarmed black kids they'd better kill these armed extremists." I don't think anyone is saying that here, I think everyone has made fair points about the events.

At least he wasn't running away unarmed. But for consistency's sake I have to wonder if they could have strategized a way to get him into custody without a fatality.

Nice! I love Samantha Bee.

You're right here, that we don't know yet about exactly what happened. I think I used "took up arms" in that they were an armed militia that had a bone to pick with the government. I would say any man who leaves home with his rifle to fight a stupid fight is abandoning his family, and any claim otherwise is grandiose, pompous and impractical. There would be a lot less blood shed in this world if people would park their crusading egos and see things this way. But here we are in philosophy, which is a step away from politics.

Yeah, that's a pretty big leap. Those guys were as much in the right defending their cause as a guy who loses his life in a gun fight over drug turf. Most causes are not worthy of violence, almost all of them. You're no better than a jihadi if you're so self-important that you think your personal beliefs entitle you to take up arms against other citizens.

No, not all governors are great presidents, but it's quite possible they weren't great governors either. That would be an interesting study. To clarify, running a state with its immediate budget to balance, its own senate and congress to balance, real citizens counting on your action- it's just a lot more like being a president to me than glad handing with your fellow senators and calculating how and when to vote on one particular bill. More things tend to unfold in real time in the governors office and the white house than in the legislative branch. Yes, as smart people you can find war