This is disgusting.

Paying for movers also shows that you value your health.

This is nonsense. When you choose among synonyms, select the one that best fits your audience, topic, tone, and style.

It’s important for physicians and others prescribing drugs to help patients make informed decisions about their health. The risks of treatment and the risks of the most viable alternatives (as well as non-treatment) should be clear.

The Dodgers won their Division only in the last few games of the season. They’d been struggling all year to keep up with two equally mediocre teams—the Diamondbacks and the Rockies. The 2016-2017 Dodgers would have beaten them easily. I didn’t expect them to make the World Series, and when they did make it, I…

“Irrationalism also depends on the cult of action for action’s sake. Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation.” —Umberto Eco, Ur-Fascism

I once did a pre-publication review of an academic text on immigration that claimed the continent was “empty” before Europeans arrived to put the land to good use. (Blithe racism not the book’s only flaw, and I panned it hard.) I remember a popular book on Los Angeles that opened with something like “Little did the…

This is on the same day that Trump again told police officers that they should be able to brutalize people of color (and anybody else, if they’re careful) with impunity. Kudos to these officers, but the wind seems to be blowing in the opposite direction.

It was taken by NASA’s Messenger, the first human-made spaceship to orbit this battered scorching hell.

Rich people and their lapdogs are fond of opposing luxuries like adequate funding for urban schools and almost any sort of public health measure by saying “You can’t fix the problem by throwing money at it.” This is true if you spend mindlessly, which seems to be the case here — though I can’t say what problem a LOTR…

He didn’t mention that he only wears them once then tosses them.

Ross’ letter is misleading on numerous counts, but probably the only thing he directly lies about is why he’s doing this. I don’t think this is purely or even primarily an instrumental move. Yes, the citizenship question is likely to reduce the participation of people with marginal immigration statuses. On the other…

Each survey has its own rules with regard to how complete a questionnaire needs to be in order to be counted, but it would be extremely difficult to justify failing to count census questionnaires that merely lacked responses to the citizenship question. (Note that it’s not just one question — it’s one question per…

We should totally NOT count kids because they are unable to participate in our democracy.

It’s a bore. Keep your finger on the FF key.

I haven’t watched anything beyond the first 30 minutes of the first half of this season. The bits and pieces I’ve read about the season have me wondering whether any of it is worth watching. Should I just give up now and free up the space on my DVR?

I got my current job with the assistance of a headhunter who saw me on LinkedIn.

I have an older phone (Samsung Galaxy S5) and I find Waze to be prohibitively slow to start up and find a route. Not that Google Maps is a speedster.

What you should do with this information depends on whether the words/phrases continue to belittle and cause offense to others. I’m skeptical about “No Can Do” and “Long Time No See” and “Bugger” (at least with respect to Bulgarians).

I thought it was very odd when they made that remark about no other skier having a chance at the podium. That’s a pronouncement you can make when competitors are statistically eliminated from a multi-part event, but it makes no sense in a single-run event like the Super-G. It was stupid on NBC’s part, and I hope they…