@RadioFreeTom Back in the 70s I read a novel where the protagonist detective drank gimlets. I thought it was so cool, so gimlets became my drink of choice. Played hell with my tough-guy image...
@MarkSZaidEsq@CAgovernor@FoxNews@POTUS@WSJ I think we're going to have to develop and refine a theory of offensive vs defensive lawfare because there's a difference between suing as an authoritarian regime and suing to resist an authoritarian regime...
@janecoaston@BridgetPhetasy Fully 60%+ of the 'couples' appearing in teevee commercials are interracial. It clearly is not only accepted but is considered the norm...
@mattyglesias Until there is at least SOME legitimate discussion of increasing revenues to go along with spending reduction the whole conversation is clearly just a scam...
@terrornerds Here's the view with 12 years of SSRIs:
Everything is getting worse.
[Although it sure seems that Europe is nowhere near as bad as the US at this point]
@highbrow_nobrow The simple explanation is that like so many other words, they have a radically different definition of 'freedom' than you and I. See 'terrorist'...
@Aviation_Intel Missiles and drones have never been Iran's primary offensive weapons. First is the Quds force fighters all over the world holding Israeli and American assets at risk. And there's always the option of making it crushingly expensive to ship oil through the strait of Hormuz...
@terrornerds As someone who was old before the age of Trump, I can tell you unequivocally that no, this isn't just being old, the world has gone utterly insane...
@matthewstoller It's only an 'urgent problem' if you define antisemitism as saying anything mean about Natanyahu's slaughter and madness.
And they do...
@GaryMarcus Do you have ANY sense of wonder over the progress that has been made on these technologies? I mean, yeah, the marketing hype is gross and disingenuous, but the tech itself - can you just take a moment to be utterly amazed at what we have done?