2. What he says about climate is patently false (more on that later) but to the extent he's saying "politicians shouldn't do the right thing unless it's popular", I'd note only that that is a toddlers view of leadership. If the popular kids are mean, should you be mean?

I made an all-day appointment on 15 October 1582 and my phone is very confused now….

Probably to this person: www.themarshallproject.org/2017/09/13/f...

Bad move, Senator.

i mean i don't think you can separate any of this discussion from the fact that so many of the participants are men who clearly have hang-ups about their inability to perform a certain kind of blue collar masculinity

Sounds like an excellent reason not to get a tattoo in Croatia, then

Isn’t the 9th Circuit of Appeals likely to overturn this?

Reminds me of this classic: “Q. Can the president eat a baby?
A. If that baby has suspected ties to al Qaeda, then it's the president's duty to eat it…[he]
doesn't want to eat sweet, delicious babies. He just wants to protect America…” fafblog.blogspot.com/2006/01/q-ou...

dementia *is* a Latin term!