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A movie about a script so bad it breaks even the key grips isn't a half-bad concept. We can call it "The Making of Flash Gordon."

A TGreggy script can break anyone. There's unemployed key grips that curse his nom de plume.

I read Tibs' posts as Marcel Marceau.

A good director can make or break an actor.

It's possible Roosevelt was an agent of the Soviet Union...

I have a hard time believing Harris has any true human feelings about the subject. But it's a good thing her anti-lynching bill didn't pass, or Smollett would be looking at ten years' hard time.

I've long suspected newspapers decided that the internet means they can crowd-source their editorial work. Put it online, read the complaints about the grammar, fix it for the print edition.

Really, the museum should just be a vacant lot with a sign "Future site of the Obama Presidential Library." Perpetually shovel-ready.

Plus he looks like he's winking, which is sexual harassment. Which means, oppressing women and blacks at the same time, intersectionality comes in to play. So he's really oppressing everyone.

Berkeley's going to burn tonight.

I also never said you had yellow fever. It's called "illustrating a point."

I wouldn't call Trump a pioneer, so much as other-worldly. His strategy seems to be outlasting scandals by tweeting new ones. Normal people wait for the scandal to lose traction. Trump just makes sure they never gain traction by ramming multiple scandals into each other like some warped version of social roller derby.

They're Jacobins fighting the Vendees.

Then keep yellow fever out of mine, and never leave your house. You want to be completely uninfluenced by others? Fine. Don't associate with anyone. But if you're going to, then adhere to a minimum requirement of responsibility in social interaction, which should include not giving me yellow fever.

If I ever shoot myself in the head, please eulogize me by saying you're proud of me because I put my life at stake to shine a light in some dark corners, because it doesn't matter that I'm dead, but that I could be alive.

Of course. If you're a Democrat, if you can wait out the scandal for 10 days, you're home-free. Republicans, it's a little longer - 14-21 days, maybe.

What's funny is seeing the anti-vaxxers migrate over the past 30 years from being fringe leftists to fringe rightists. Best evidence I've seen that when you get to the fringe, there is no "left" or "right." Just loons.

Define "outbreak." No, I'll do it for you: it's the transmission of an infectious disease through a population over a given period of time. An "epidemic" of an infectious disease is literally the transmission of that disease. Hell, you yourself said that vaccines aren't 100% effective. With that constraint, the only way they would work is if they prevented transmission, because you certainly couldn't argue they prevent disease. That's exactly the argument anti-vaxxers use, in fact: that vaccines aren't effective at disease prevention, because they're not 100% effective. And it's exactly why they're wrong: because they are completely effective at stopping epidemics, by blocking the transmission of disease. For example: smallpox. Also, in the US, polio, rubella, and - once upon a time - measles. Measles is, in fact, the perfect example of the concept I'm trying to pound in to your thick skull. Measles ceased to be an epidemic disease in the US in 2000 - there were still cases, imported from other countries, but which didn't spread. There were no native cases of measles in the US in 2000. Now, 20 years later, with vaccination rates low in some communities, those communities are seeing the transmission of measles.

I still love the fact that he mailed himself white powder, which raises it from the level of "lucky for you it's not illegal to be a dipshit" to "unlucky for you it's EXTREMELY illegal to be a terrorist dipshit."

My favorite take so far. The Root is awesome. I'm not sure I could have made that up myself.

What, is the word "transmission" invisible? TRANSMISSION. Does that help? In order to prevent epidemics, you must prevent the of TRANSMISSION disease.

####### kids were busy playing in the snow, when they could have been looking for her husband under the couch...

The scientist then publishes them, for others to reproduce and prove or disprove. The problem with Global Warming - again - is that those parameters are forbidden from being disproven. It's why - again - Global Warming is religion, not science, because the concept of "falsifiability" has been eliminated from the methodology. Which, again, is why the proper question isn't "Is the data manipulated?" Manipulating the data is scientific. So yes, it is. But if you can't ask if it's being properly manipulated, and hypothesize and test that it's being improperly manipulated, then the theory is unscientific.

"Specialized archivist" in this case most likely means "censor" anyway. I'd prefer the data dump.

That's ***** priceless. Smollett's benefactor refusing to answer questions about him while out with Tawana Brawley's benefactor.