At what point are we shifting from political commentary to laughing at someone with a debilitating mental illness?
At what point are we shifting from political commentary to laughing at someone with a debilitating mental illness?
Right now the government is shut down because the Democrats are refusing to fund Trump’s wall, and Trump is refusing to let them push him around.
It is time for Argument Clinic to tackle one of the most important topics in argumentation today: how to deal with a hypocrite.

Is this the right room for an argument
The whole Michael Avenatti/Stormy Daniels lawsuit is starting to smell supicious to me.
… but mostly out of curiosity. Let’s play a game!
The strategic genius says, “when you are throwing people under a bus, make sure that your other staff won’t realize you’re the kind of person who will throw them under a bus, too.”
Whenever we read an account of the beginning of WWI it’s necessary for the historian to first lay out the landscape of interlocking defense treaties that turned Europe into a sort of Venn diagram of fantasy militarism. To me, it’s a reminder of the great Avalon Hill game Diplomacy which we played in my high school Military History Club (AKA: D&D club) – everyone secretly negotiating with everyone else against everyone else. For Europe, the results were grim, and I needn’t go into them.
I never thought Rex Tillerson would seem diplomatic. Our national exercise in Overton Window-shifting has had some results: we are settling for mind-bogglingly foolish because it looks good compared to babbling batshit.
A friend of mine made me watch this; I had had too much wine, perhaps, and really couldn’t believe I was seeing what I was seeing.
Now that Trump has fired Comey, who’s his likely replacement?
