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Can the descent of American political culture into ugly tribalism be halted? Alabama voters will give their answer when they decide whether to send Roy Moore to the U.S. Senate. Moore, 70, has built a long, disgraceful career out of smarmy religiosity spiked with tribal grievance. Having posed for years as the most pious of Christians, he now stands accused by nine women of un-Christian behavior: They claim convincingly that Moore, when he was in his 30s, aggressively pursued romantic or sexual relationships, including with teens barely half his age. Successful demagogues can use tribal enmities to blind their followers...

In the mid-season finale of The Walking Dead, Negan stopped Rosita's bullet with Lucille, his barb wire wrapped bat. Though we don’t know how under powered the round loaded by Eugene might have been, it was at least powerful enough to cycle the slide on Rosita's Beretta. Here's a video that explores the reality of a scene from season 7, episode 8, wherein Rosita attempts to kill bad guy Negan by shooting at him with a handloaded 9mm. Could this really happen? Could a baseball bat stop a 9mm round? He takes the shot and the bullet goes clean through...

The world is a terrible mess. Lives ruined, forces aligned against each other, and the threat of death constantly hanging over everyone's heads. So time to relax and watch a new episode of The Walking Dead! Just kidding, you guys... If you were looking to get away from round the clock news of *suppresses gag reflex* President Trump, you probably should have focused elsewhere than on this week's shockingly timely episode of TWD, where a sadistic, misogynistic, enigmatic, violent maniac has beaten the good guys into submission and is now demanding they give up their s---, threatening them with violence...

All right, Walking Dead Heads!AMC briefly had this audio snippet of TWD's half-season finale on its site, then quickly snatched it offline.However, someone grabbed it and put it into an audiofile here. Takes a few seconds to fully load.This Negan dude will be something else! ConjunctionJunction, please ping the list. Jesus Christ: You can't impeach Him and He ain't gonna resign.