Ranking the rank

John Scalzi lists and discusses the GOP candidates in order.

Also gip.

Visionaries

50 years ago, crazy people said that the war for business supremacy would be between the speed freaks and the acid heads.

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There goes the neighborhood

In fact, there was only one time in American history when the fear of refugees wiping everyone out did actually come true, and we'll all be sitting around the table celebrating it on Thursday

–John Oliver

Princeton has a Woody

Woodrow Wilson wasn’t just the first great promoter of the idea that we should send Americans to get killed in the effort to enforce democracy on the whole world. He was also a degenerate racist who undid most of the modest progress Roosevelt and Taft made in desegregating the American government. Ta-Nehisi Coates discusses.