Whatever happened to Robert Reich?

It looks like they’re likely to move Josh Barro to a regular column, which would be good (but he’s everywhere nowadays: NYT, NPR, MSNBC, Business Insider). Lord knows when he finds time to actually write.

Douthat wants people to fuck, he just wants them to be married and Catholic and not using birth control.

I’m kinda with you on Frum, but he maintains some very robustly (and I think, incorrect) foreign policy views.

Totally.

Of all of the conservatives who have turned to rejecting Trump root-and-branch, Rubin was actually the most surprising to me. Frum’s been an antagonist of the Republican Party almost since the day he left the White House, so it’s no surprise that he’d hate Trump. I also have a sneaking suspicion that he’s (mostly) a…

Space hippies are even worse than Earth hippies.

I mean, Star Trek itself tried the same thing with Species 8472 and that kind of worked.

First off, they need to get rid of Bryan Singer, and they need a whole new visual look for the films. Increasingly, they look cheap as hell, even with all of the CGI they’re adding. Every single one is worse than the last one, and they all look like your television or movie screen brightness is up too high.

Why would Sprint be in a position to buy T-Mobile this year?

Oh, trust me, their problems go waaayyyy deeper than that. Allegedly.

Liz Spayd has been largely fucking awful as the Times’ Public Editor, so I was a little surprised to see this, actually.

Mine, too. I was a little surprised to see it was Tumulty, though.

Calling her “mother” is kind of weird, but not all that weird, if it’s like, in front of your kids, I guess. But sitting at a professional dinner with your colleagues? That’s extraordinarily strange, and I’d consider that person extremely unprofessional and the kind of person I’d go to great lengths to avoid working…

So, is this supposed to entice Sprint users to subscribe to Tidal, or Tidal users to subscribe to Sprint?

This shouldn’t be all that surprising if you know your telecom industry and can connect the dots. Jeff Toig (TIDAL’s nominal CEO - we’ll get to that in a minute) was instrumental in spearheading Muve Music back at Cricket, back when Cricket was independent, before they were purchased by AT&T.

Imagine the kind of person you have to be to defend Martin Shkreli, even anonymously on the internet.

Democrats still hold the ultimate responsibility for abandoning Howard Dean’s 50-state strategy and failing to heed the warnings of 2010, 2012, and 2014, but this particular cycle they were fucked just about any way they tried to move.

I can’t imagine it either, but we’ve got three weeks to find out. I find it difficult to believe this is Farenthold’s last scoop of the election.

Interactive media is often an excuse for excess complexity--why not engage me in your character and write a story that makes me remember their back story?