And God created Adam

I dunno, that sounds like a fast track to being the subject of a murder mystery. I think I’m good.

You’ve never heard of the Trans Siberian Railroad Orchestra?

I mean, I don’t buy fast food anyway. Seems like they have in fact shifted away from, institutionally, supporting anti-LGBT groups, although private support continues. So technically I was correct, but functionally just seems like corporate whitewashing.

Do they? I thought I heard that they did a u-turn on that a few years back.

Ah, respect. Though I think you could slip “or by the trigger” without much fuss.

My point is that the song is topical enough to warrant practical commentary.

What’s your point?

a CaR iS a DeAdLy WeApOn

Practice appropriate trigger safety. Come with a readied weapon obviously, but keep that finger off the trigger until the split second before it’s necessary.

Twist: those are psych researchers, and he is in the experimental group.

Eh, Hanlon’s Razor. There are certainly plenty of dirty neo-libs, but I also think the Democratic party is where passionate, practical minded, progressive political science types wind up, and I think that demographic is well-meaning but caught up in metrics.

Metrics rely on historical data. Obviously Biden should be the candidate, he’s an incumbent, and incumbents have an advantage. The problem is the sample size is too low (n = 47) to really control for most variables. Especially since when you consider the study longitudinally, n = 1.

Anyway, politics is hard, and I’m willing to give a little grace to those who are least trying to be smart. Strategists seem like the smart move, but the big paradox of analyzing a quickly-changing subject is that the more data-backed your strategy, the more outdated it is. The world moves too fast now.

I suspect a not-insignificant segment of the caucus has been been just sincerely trying to play the right moves.

It could be ambiguous to a general audience. A Chevron logo would’ve been more elegant

Because of the “every time”. Only sith deal in absolutes.

Not necessarily, depends on the groceries. If you shop irresponsibly, you can spend just as much if not more on groceries.

I would imagine he, or members of his staff, did read them all before today, and have a good idea of the contents. I believe he explicitly said he was going to reissue certain ones.

Actually, I don’t really like the progress flag and think it contributes to division. The original rainbow flag is perfect: sexuality and gender expression are a broad spectrum, the stripes don’t represent individual groups, the whole rainbow represents all groups.

The progress flag adds symbols for specific groups which were already included in the rainbow. Once you start singling groups out piecemeal, you enter an endless spiral of having to individually acknowledge every group, and there’s always another subdivision being left out.

I also like the reclamation of the word “queer” and think it’s a far more unifying label than LGBTQIA+, for the same reason.

It’s fine to have focused actions, but unified movements are better.

I’d split the difference and say it’s mostly a psychopathic obsession with money. I think the number of people who are cruel for cruelty’s sake is absolutely dwarfed by the number of people who are fine with cruelty because it makes them richer.

Strikes require a strike fund or they fizzle once the strikers run out of savings, and who has savings these days? There’s already a general strike ready to trigger once enough people commit.

Protests take time to organize. More frequent protests will be much smaller, and therefore easily ignored.

It turns out, organizing millions of people takes a substantial amount of time, effort, and resources.

Unless…

Maybe not everything, there were a few less-than-greats in his catalogue. It’s been a while, but I can’t imagine The Pebble and the Penguin or A Troll in Central Park being particularly good as an adult.