@agraybee Look, I’m skeptical of Platner too, but all available evidence has said he has the better shot of defeating Collins. Today’s the day to move on and support a Dem nominee.
The chapters in Moby-Dick are named like Seinfeld episodes. “The Counterpane,” “The Ramadan,” “The Affidavit,” and randomly there’s one that’s just “Male Unbonding.”
@ArmandDoma Lmao, I had an amazing bad/surreal Mexican restaurant experience in Krakow once. Shirtless or navel-baring servers, periodic pyrotechnic “gunfights.” Frankly it was unforgettable.
The pro-life movement already settled the debate on violence vs voting. Bombing abortion clinics and killing doctors accomplished nothing but increased FBI surveillance. Voting Republican for 50 years outlawed abortion.
@ArmandDoma It’s not necessarily the main defect of Tlaib’s, but shoehorning Palestine into a message ostensibly about indigenous North Americans is pretty tacky.
@ryanhasbadtaste@aliner @_ryanruby_ I enjoyed the one Platonov I read (The Foundation Pit), but Sasha Sokolov’s A School for Fools is one of my all-time favorite NYRB titles. Check it out and see if it moves you.
@ramseykincannon Yeah, it’s possible I’m underestimating that turn on the basis of my information streams. And it definitely seems that polling isn’t as predictive as it used to be. IDK.
@ramseykincannon There’s not much evidence her polls are tanking. There have been a lot of GOP-leaning garbage polls that have inundated the polling averages but not a lot of movement in high-quality polls. Think that matters before we say her swing state strategy is failing.
@daxmancher Does a public appreciation of Dick Cheney “do it” for me? Not exactly, but I, a lifelong Democrat, am not the target. I trust, hope, that the message finds its intended recipient.
@daxmancher So Kamala, the current VP, has some anodyne words of gratitude for the former VP, who, whatever his legacy, has shown some backbone in turning his back on the party he all but led. …