Los Angeles has less late night than it should. If DC is even worse than LA, it's run like a city that is only for the kind of old people who eat dinner at 3 pm so they can eat before they sundown.... And oh yeah, Congress. That makes sense.

FWIW, hunting Bigfoot is also illegal. Not because Bigfoot exists, but because hunting him causes harm by virtue of a bunch of people in the woods intending to shoot at the shape of a person.

Legislatures don't need to wait for something to exist to deal with the harm it causes.

Is his staff unable to keep him off TV, or does his own staff hate him? I can't figure it out.

"I'm not political, I'm not advocating for any particular change" == "My politics are to preserve and defend my stake in status quo, but also I'm either lying or too stupid to have any introspection about that."

In the 60's, "I'm not political" was 100% correlated to "blacks are too political."

The other option is a vow of poverty for any high office. You live in Congressional housing like a monastery, and give away 100% of your wealth and worldly possessions. Any member of congress or federal judge found to have retained a business interest or money or stocks, etc. is imprisoned.

Go nuts. :)

Also, I think it's funny how obviously I have to edit come comment to *just* squeek into the post character limit on this graph. If brevity is the soul of wit, here is extensive data proving that I am not particularly witty.

Is Die Hard a Peldor movie? Or just a movie that takes place during a Peldor festival?

Reforming ethics enforcement against lawyers is gonna need to be a pretty major bullet point for any major national reform program. It shouldn't be that hard just to get an investigation opened.

"If you care about humanity, eating is not a greater crime than hunger" is a line I wrote a while back in a wacky screenplay, but seems applicable to the real world. I find myself repeating it a lot lately as SNAP has been in the news.

It's more megapixels. What more could anybody possibly want from content?

Hegseth doing the Sideshow Bob, "My tattoo just says 'The Civilians, The' in German" defense.

Find out the one fandom thing he always talks about. Get a hat with that on it. Sports team, Star Trek, Iron Man, food, whatever. They make a lot of hats.

If I was a parent, I'd probably do something like that as a way to make sure very few people came but I was technically complying with a partner's requirements to throw a party and invite a lot of people.

Left: FDR campaign speech, October 1936

Right: 1936 electoral map

Definitionally, the for profit system is a machine to turn sick people into poor people.

It's such a well-made version of such a bad movie. It's not fun like it would be as an 80's movie made for $100K with plastic toy space ship models, because then surely somebody involved in making it would have realized it was stupid.

Every actor thinks their dramatic monologue is Tony winning.