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  1. softlynow
    We're in the golden age of TV. Ain't nobody got time for that shit. I'm going with 2020, polonium poisoning. Chaos is a ladder.
  2. softlynow
    You didn't need to confirm that you had said interest, but thanks.
  3. softlynow
    They know. They don't care. Evangelicalism has been politically weaponized, and it is impervious to logic, decency and convention. God's will must be done. If their god actually cared for people, it wouldn't be such a problem. The greatest trick the devil ever pulled only required a steady diet of donuts.
  4. softlynow
    Based on some article in a magazine, my mom banned The Simpsons in our household and gave The Cosby Show her glowing approval. I view that as a win-win, though. I now have a nuclear trump card for any moralizing commentsshe makes in any setting, and I get to see many episodes of The Simpsons during its prime as if they’re new today.
  5. softlynow
    That’s a silly attitude. Alabama is on the way to many worthwhile destinations.
  6. softlynow
    We've answered the age old question, "how bad can it be?"
  7. softlynow
    Trump Yellow Dog
  8. softlynow
    I say confirm the guy. If not, Trump will undoubtedly find someone worse because libtears.
  9. softlynow
    Bats are heating up. Time to run this guy.
  10. softlynow
    This shit was unfair to Hillary then, and unfair to Melania now.
  11. softlynow
    Rule of Law, Transparency, National Security, pick any two.
  12. softlynow
    Whether something is a "public service" is subjective, so it would be extremely difficult to have a government that has any secret information at all, and allow for the kind of thing you're advocating. Your point about different rules is correct, but it misses where the real problem lies. There's an entire branch of government that should be quite a bit more suspicious of our national security apparatus. Sadly, they've completely abrogated their role.
  13. softlynow
    Ellsberg expected life in prison. He didn't go because Nixon's boys fucked up the case by breaking into his shrink's office, illegally wiretapped his phone, and arguably tried to bribe the judge with the directorship of the FBI.
  14. softlynow
    Leaking is like any kind of civil disobedience. Be prepared to do the time. They go unpunished because our politics is fucked. Tell me how the law that protects RW would operate. What would the objective elements of a defense to 18 U.S.C. Section 793(e) be that might be applicable here? Or, what's your argument that 18 U.S.C. Section 793(e) should be repealed?
  15. softlynow
    Each (both!) side has their memes. Laugh at the funny ones, and move on. Or dwell on the ones you don't like and wander down vapidity lane hand in hand with the opposition. Your choice.
  16. softlynow
    I don't think I was trying to do that in either post I made this morning. I made one post in response to a very fine SAT word, and that point was pretty narrow. The other was in response to his bent trendline post. What is this narrative? I'm mostly a drive-by poster, and selective reader these days.
  17. softlynow
    Ah yes, both sides. If we're going to go back to where we lost the plot, though, that'd be the Reagan Revolution. All the economic policies that made America actually great started getting undone about then. And in the spirit of our aside, let me be repetitive about the reason: the me-now Boomers started voting themselves all the benefits, while denying future generations the advantages that propped them up. True leftism is non-existent as a ballot-box option. Despite the negatives of that side of the spectrum in the extreme, when it's not there at all, we get the Gilded Age Part III.
  18. softlynow
    You've got a pretty high post count for someone making that charge. We've been stuck on same shit, different day for, what, a year now?
  19. softlynow
    Bunch of Assholes Trail of Tears
  20. softlynow
    Sooooo, back to the topic. I'm not so sure Harris is the best bet at the top of the Dem ticket, but I am pleased with Dems "evolving" on pot. I guess we should consider this a positive outcome to the opioid crisis. Some drugs are truly dangerous. It's time to let people self medicate with those that really aren't.
  21. softlynow
    Are there any interesting position-player-as-pitcher options for the Sox?
  22. softlynow
    The top of this page is hilarious if you, like me, were unable to watch/follow the game, and checked here first before checking the final. Y'all freaking out, in April, on the champs when a 6 run cushion goes to 4. Chill, our boys have this.
  23. softlynow
    RIP Mrs. Bush. If you don't have a positive view of her life, you're a troubled person, IMO. Her passing is a reminder of why decency is gone. Her generation, the moderating influence on the culture warrior generation, is dying out quickly. Boomers going nuts with mom and dad not looking over their shoulders.
  24. softlynow

    Tax reform

    softlynow replied to zork's topic in Cloak Room

    No, it's not in the least interesting that anyone in this administration would say something so idiotic.
  25. softlynow
    I feel like this is a good thread for a Sleestak appearance. Has he made it here yet?

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