This is a trick question where the answer is something other than “someone taking a cab from the Upper West Side to the Village,” right?

Did the election teach you anything about false equivalency and whataboutism?

I wouldn’t say that the 20 million people who got health insurance for the first time, or the 15 million who found jobs, or the middle class workers who saw the biggest year-over-year earnings jump in history, were screwed by Obama.

Counterpoint: blimps are dick.

I see no particular reason to respect the office of the President when its current inhabitant doesn’t do the same.

Your fear-mongering will not shame me into admitting that actions have consequences.

Hey, Eric can’t wait in the wings forever.

A look into the future:

Came here to write the same thing. Silver harped endlessly in the run-up to the election that Clinton was spending too much time in states that were out of reach and not paying enough attention to the Midwest. The day of the election, he said that there were three equally likely possibilities: Clinton in a blowout,…

“(If the average American household earned $9,000 more per year, Donald Trump would not be president, I wager.)”

Remember when we were all told we should be very upset at Hillary Clinton’s terrible conflicts of interest, because she got paid to give speeches, her daughter is married to a guy in finance, and banks gave money to the Clinton Foundation?

These days, smartphones are fast enough that battery degradation is one of the main things that motivates me to move to a new one. Once I get a new battery next week, gratis from Apple, I honestly don’t know what will motivate me to get a new phone for the next couple of years.

I was going to ask the same thing.

Let us pray for the poor lost souls of the tourists trapped in the tunnels of the Selenitic Age.

One of the coolest projects in the CS major at Stanford back when I was there (eons ago) was what amounted to essentially programming a (simplified) Hypercard clone in C as the final project of the core coding classes. It cost me two friendships and nearly my girlfriend, but man did I feel amazing when I turned that…

I disagree. This gives them plenty of time to win before the 20100's are over.

Two sports radio stations in Boston: on 98.5, all the talk was about Peyton’s romantic postgame embrace of his sponsors; and on 93.7, all the talk was about Donald Trump. (Highlight: “Is there anything Trump could say that would be the third rail and actually hurt him?” “Maybe if he said something racist.” “[THUMP]”…

How long before the good folks at RedState are posting photos of Lamar Odom as proof that Trayvon Martin was actually 6’10”?

This is such an obvious point, it’s remarkable that it even needs to be made. Throw a brick off a building’s roof, and you could be charged with murder if it hits someone in the head, or suffer no consequences whatsoever if it hits the ground instead. There’s a reason that we have different crimes for murder and…

Absolutely - but there was also mass systemic slavery in 1820-1864, which was also ranked ahead of the not-as-many-slaves-in-the-dominant-economies 1440-1819 period. And, frankly, I’m not so sure that being a serf in the late middle ages was all that much better than Roman slavery.