Unfortunately, so were the alternatives to Mills.

Mills was the best of shitty options. Which should be the Democratic Party's motto.

He's been a real piece of shit for a while. I'm glad that he's finally getting consequences from it.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Scott_Adams

There's something about the combination of the deer and that license plate that's just hilarious.

Like it's a magic trick gone awry.

"Hey, Rocky...watch me pull a deer out of this guy's trunk!"

TA-DAA!!!

Pretty sure Harry was in every season of Night Court.

I think the 80s were more accepting of characters that manipulated others in order to have sex with them.

Dan definitely came off as a bit rapey. Unless they updated the character to have grown past that, I'm not sure such a protagonist belongs in media. Especially in an era when many young men idolize people like Andrew Tate and other figures of toxic masculinity.

It's broadly a good thing in our society that we no longer have characters like Dan portrayed sympathetically.

This should have been done before half the cast was dead.

It's hard to have Night Court without Harry, Mac, and Christine.

Besides, Dan Fielding was sort of the worst most dated character of the bunch. Just a sleazy sex-obsessed fiend.

That's from the Quebecois term for it: "pate chinois".

If you're using jarred tomato sauce, I recommend Newman's Own Sockarooni Sauce. It works well in this.

Could this be one of LePage's horcruxes?

The Behind the Bastards podcast has a good episode about Synanon and The Elan School. It is fucked up...

Wherever you go, there you are!

Taxpayer-funded crack pipes (which I don't think anyone is promoting currently) is a better solution to addiction than criminalizing the problem.

Needs to go along with free addiction treatment, though, to be effective.

If there's anything we should have taken away from the crack epidemic (and the opioid epidemic), it's that criminalization of drug use only causes more problems and doesn't solve any.

As far as race, it's easy to say that race has nothing to do with anything...if your race is considered the "default" by society and you have never faced any systemic issues due to your race. Other people have different experiences.

LePage is a bigot and was not a good governor for Maine. I hope he loses.

It's not racist to recognize that the history of crack is intertwined with black people because systemic racism relegated black people to poverty, living in ghettos, and other vulnerable situations. So that when the drug lords (with the help of the CIA) flooded the ghettos with cheap crack cocaine, desperate people in desperate situations got addicted.

Then you had a big racist moral panic about "crack babies" in the media.

But again, the much more significant issue in Maine is opioids, so why is LePage bringing up crack?

Hindus have a goddess named Sheetala Maa who is worshipped to protect against smallpox.

The drug problem in Maine (and elsewhere) is muchmore opioids but using "crack" suggests black people, so he can use it as a racist dogwhistle.

Not the biggest fan of Golden (who thought it a good idea to do an appearance with Joe Manchin to, idk, show some "I'm an independent" solidarity bs), but this is good.

This is what "draining the swamp" looks like. Ending corruption in Congress.

I found Southern hospitality to be conditional.

Oh, they will be very friendly but the moment they find out that you, say, aren't Christian, that hospitality can change at the drop of a dime.

I don't feel that about Mainers. No one has yet asked me about my religion since I moved here... and I appreciate that.