The critique of the flawed methodology seems sound. But is the ultimate result of this kind of mistake good or bad for Obama? There are arguments both ways.

A recent study found that 10 percent of people who work on Wall Street are “clinical psychopaths,” exhibiting a lack of interest in and empathy for others and an “unparalleled capacity for lying, fabrication, and manipulation.” (The proportion at large is 1 percent.) Another study concluded that the rich are more likely to lie, cheat and break the law.

The only thing that puzzles me about these claims is that anyone would find them surprising.

Interesting article pointing out reviews that underplay the significance of Black Widow’s role in the movie. The movie doesn’t treat her as the token girl, but many reviewers saw her that way anyway.

Because everything is better with orangutans.

I was under the impression that the purpose of the Constitution was to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.

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Weird. My elementary school teachers taught me that the purpose of the United States Constitution was to replace the ineffective Articles of Confederation by forging a stronger federal government that could gradually draw the thirteen colonies together into a unified country.

But maybe my teachers were just commie propagandists. Maybe the double secret purpose of the United States Constitution is to create a federal government solely for the purpose of limiting it.

I’m sure Tagg Romney is a fine fellow, but the truth is that even if he was a lazy dolt he’d still do well. He went to the best schools, his parents gave him all kinds of enriching experiences, and he never had to worry about much of anything. He wasn’t going to get pulled out of college and have to take a job if one of his parents got sick. When he decided this private equity thing looked interesting, there was an escalator waiting, and all he had to do was hop on. That’s opportunity.

So when conservatives begin arguing that we don’t want equality of outcome, just equality of opportunity, look closely at what it is they’re arguing against.

His argument, in a nutshell: 1. The road to paradise is for literally everyone in the world to be a an innovative risk-taker/venture capitalist, 2. The best way to ensure this happens is to make sure that people are highly motivated to become innovative risk-takers/venture capitalists 3. Therefore the road to paradise is for innovative risk-takers/venture capitalists who succeed to get All The Money There Is.

He’s just argued, pretty much, that there shouldn’t be any regular jobs, there should just be people trying to win the lottery. Hey, it probably won’t pay off, but if it does, ALL THE MONEY. Except, what happens to the people who don’t win?

A round-up of members of the anti-abortion movement characterizing the other side as a bunch of cackling supervillains who actively want there to be more abortions for whatever twisted-up reason.

More evidence for my theory that right wingers like to focus on the abortion debate mostly because it gives them an opportunity to smear political liberals with blood libel.

A thousand times yes.

I totally need to memorize this.

Sugar daddies—whom I’ll define here as private donors or their privately held companies writing checks totaling $1 million or more (sometimes much more) in this election cycle—are largely a Republican phenomenon, most of them one degree of separation from Karl Rove and his unofficial partners in erecting a moneyed shadow GOP, David and Charles Koch.

He’s the kind of guy who gets all pissy when you ask him a hard question and then tells you to “get a job,” like he’s thirteen years old or something.