On the other hand, he got a great seat for this week’s episode of the El Toro podcast, “a long-form conversation hosted by three of El Toro’s tech nerds: David Stadler, Kramer Caswell and Austin Whitely.”

No, Hitler didn’t disarm the Jews. The Weimar Republic did, as it did nearly all citizens more than a decade before Hitler was named chancellor. He and the Nazis did relax gun regulations quite a bit compared to where they were in the 1920s, but the Jews had already lost that right years before. 

As Iranian sports takes on Twitter go, Mahmoud has a lot of ground to make up:

Rob Ryan has really let himself go. 

How cheap was Old Man Bidwill?

That is a long way to go to avoid eye contact with Kathy Najimy.

Well, whose minutes would he steal? On Boston, that’s a combination of Tatum, Brown, and Marcus Morris? Let’s look at his usage rate that season in the playoffs for Denver (31 percent) and minutes (42 a night). Of guys who played the majority of that series for Boston this spring, those same three dudes are the top…

I don’t think a Carmelo who averages 30 a game gets past a LeBron who averaged 34/9/9 on 53 percent shooting in the Eastern Conference playoffs this past season. No way, no how.

I should have known

The example of other civilized nations doesn’t work right out of the gate, because this system won’t resemble them right out of the gate. If you cut government funding to Norway’s system, do you imagine the quality of care would stay the same, improve, or get worse? That’s one of the short-term problems with a single…

Which single payer? Lot of options out there. I support it conceptually; I just don’t know how you do it without both a detrimentally large investment and degradation of care.

Arizona is probably getting a Democratic senator in November. It may get a Democratic governor. If that happens, then it’s very likely the governor would (and certainly could) appoint another Democrat to replace John McCain. That’s bizarre.

It’s not about Bismarck, it’s about the idea that one way is not the best way. He was certainly not a great human being, but he absolutely deserves most of the individual credit for creating the first modern welfare state at the same time as unifying Germany and urbanizing the country and reinventing its economy from…

The largest political affiliation in the country is independent. It has been, according to Gallup polling, the largest group in the vast majority of surveys since 2004. By and large, it’s been over 40 percent for the past six years. There are vastly more voters in the center than you’re willing to admit.

Mmm. That’s good. 

Pictured: Michael Jordan backs away from lint roller.

I would highly, highly doubt there’s anything concrete connecting Trump himself to any of the impeachable crimes. For one, he’s too stupid for Russian agents to work with; he’d spill it. Second, he apparently had plenty of people willing to do that for him, so he didn’t need to. But putting him in a meeting or finding…

You would think that would be obvious. There are some out there; I think Seth Moulton, who has too low a profile at this point, is a good template. The returns on the more progressive Democratic presidents have not been good, electorally speaking. The New Deal begat Eisenhower (who, as it happens, was an excellent…

I think you’re giving the Democratic Party entirely too much credit for knowing its ass from a hole in the ground.

I don’t mean to bring people down on the weekend, but at this point, it’s still more likely he gets reelected than impeached.