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Tim Marchman
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Editor at Special Projects Desk

“I don’t understand why in this era of technological change our armed forces aren’t organized the way they were 70 years ago”—a grown man in front of tens of millions of people, just now. Read more

Mike Pence really is Unfrozen Ca. 2005 Republican! All we have to do is establish safe zones in a multiparty civil war that’s also serving as a proxy war between regional and great powers, you say? Also his talking point about there are fewer U.S. soldiers than there have been since the end of WWII sent me screaming Read more

Mike Pence was just vigorously prosecuting the Dolchstoß argument on Iraq, which leaving aside its merits was discredited as a political tactic among Republicans a decade ago. Read more

Someone’s gotta ask these guys about the Cubs rotation. I don’t believe Kyle Hendricks and I definitely don’t believe Jason Hammel or John Lackey. Read more

The thing that’s making this work for me actually is the thought that there’s a parallel universe where this is a presidential debate. Read more

This debate really, really could have used some third-party candidates offering their takes. Read more

Let’s check in with Curt Schilling. Is he in a room full of tabletop WWI games? Appears so!

Speaking of attacks, I don’t understand why Clinton and Kaine haven’t talked more about how Trump’s dad had to bail him out in the ‘90s after he ran up what were essentially giant credit card bills he couldn’t even pay the interest on. Read more

I think hammering this point about how Trump doesn’t pay taxes is a bit beside the point, which is that Trump is a loser! He’s a failed businessman, a fraud, a grifter, and a con man who doesn’t even have real money. The issue isn’t him using the tax code, it’s that to all appearances he’s a stone cold idiot who lost Read more

He’s said “war on coal” AT LEAST three times just in this answer. Read more

If you want to get drunk, take a sip every time Pence mentions “the war on coal.” Read more

How much would you pay for Jose Bautista to pop up and knock these guys in the head with a bat? Read more

Seven minutes into this, I’m starting to really appreciate Donald Trump. If he had to debate one of these jamokes he’d have shit on the table by now. Read more

Mort Pence is talking about how he grew up with a cornfield in his backyard, the son of an immigrant—an inspiring tale for anyone with roots in Androidland. Read more

The makeup covering Tad Kaine’s true identity (Batman: The Animated Series Joker) is extremely lifelike and convincing. Read more

Terry McAuliffe! The last time I saw him I was with Feinberg at something like 2:00 a.m. in a hotel bar in Philly. He was SOOOOOOOOOO lit. Read more

ABC claims “THE GLOVES ARE OFF,” which really seems like overpromising, although I would definitely watch these two in a bare knuckle boxing contest. Read more