Avail yourself of an extension or app that will block sites that you read obsessively. Having to manually turn it off or enter a password introduces enough friction into the process that you can no longer click reflexively off and on all day long. My clicking is now restricted to short, finite periods.

That charming town is also blighted by being hometown of Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, whose childhood friend’s company, Whitefish Energy, got the contract to rebuild Puerto Rico’s power grid even though they only had two employees and no experience, which is why Puerto Rico doesn’t have power, which is why…

When I was a teenage bike messenger in the late ‘80s, I sometimes got paid $25 an hour to camp out overnight to hold a place in line at a big hearing. There were over a dozen of us there for Iran-Contra. The Capitol Hill police walked past every half hour or so, knocking their batons against things and kicking our…

I tell roommates that I would not explain anything to them if they miss it because they were on their phone, and that if I have to pause and go back to hear something because they were talking more than once, they can watch Game of Thrones on their goddamn phone in their room.

No one ever suggested that McCain had given up information under torture until he ran for President, because McCain gave them the names of the Green Bay Packers’ offensive line.

Tell that to Boeing and Airbus, who just lost $39 billion in contracts with Iran.

That is a spectacular fucking comment. I just read The Dunwich Horror last week, because I’d re-watched Get Out, and that is where the name Armitage came from, being as how it’s one of the only Lovecraft stories where the hero defeats the monster, doncha know.

And yet Pruitt is halting efforts and cutting funding to clean up toxic waste, and rolling back regulations intended to reduce the production of toxic waste pretty much everywhere people not as rich or as white as Hugh Hewitt live.

You nailed it.

If you guys don’t want to click the link to that WaPo article, the short version is that the dogs have a false positive rate of 30-70% because they are deliberately trained to alert to the faintest residue in order to provide probable cause for searches, or even better, provide an opportunity for the police to…

It seems more likely that we’ll get some sort of Scooby Doo reveal.

The first word that I can actually remember reading was Watergate, when I was about three, partly because it was a really big word made up of two small words that I knew, and partly because I saw it in very large letters whenever I sat on my father’s lap while he read the Washington Post.

This is the new “thanks, Obama.”

So a political appointee with a well-documented history of torturing people wanted to withdraw from consideration due serious bipartisan criticism, and the White House talked them out of it. Of course they did.

Oh please, real estate is THE way to launder large sums of money, and Trump has mob ties that go way back. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/donald-trump-2016-mob-organized-crime-213910

How is that relevant, in a contest for the Democratic primary?

Bernie Sanders dismissed identity politics as irrelevant, calling it a distraction from the economic issues. But it’s only white men who have the privilege of seeing them as an irrelevant distraction. Because having your resume automatically get passed over because your name is Jamal is an economic issue. Being forced…

It’s generally only white men who think pragmatism is a dirty word, because most of the hard, day to day work of making incremental gains is done by women and people of color. Then they some in and make some grand speeches.

Gaslighting works.

They also make a pair of non-disposable high fidelity ones. I’ve been using the same pair at concerts for well over a decade. They would not be good to sleep in, though. So I use the blue ones to shut out sound in order to sleep, and the high fidelity ones to filter sound in order to enjoy noisy environments more.