Incidentally, there is a middle ground between refusing to let someone in and just letting anybody follow you no-questions-asked. You pause and say “hi!,” and make a little eye contact, like a legitimately friendly person would.

I think it would be an interesting way to advocate for ranked-choice voting to run polls in each primary state. Design the poll as if there were ranked choice. Then, if the results are different (demonstrating that there is vote-splitting at work and the front runner is not really the candidate most people want) you…

Agree, whatever happened to civility. Maybe it was this...

That was one of the most deranged cases of right-wing butthurt ever on display, in some ways as crazy as birtherism. Obama is praised for his skill at oratory and Palin is caught scrawling an outline for her speech on her arm with a sharpie like a desperate teenager, so the republican base goes beserk, insisting that…

A server did once scold our group for playing cards in a cafe. This was when he came up to take our order - for some reason he was like “cmon, guys!” and we were like “so do you want us to order some stuff or not?”  It was weird.

I’m surprised [Tim Allen] isn’t out there pitching it himself and blaming liberals as the reason it hasn’t been picked up.

Serious question - are these fast-growing suburbs really just the outskirts of popular cities?

My personal guess is that maybe it’s not so much the new style as some interpersonal thing. Maybe she doesn’t like the extra musicians they’ve added, or she’s sick of Carrie or Corin.

I’m sincerely glad you liked No Cities, went to the last tour, and enjoyed it. That’s kind of my point, that these old bands can keep on keeping on and it’ll probably keep working for somebody.

Because you can’t trust young people to show up to vote, regardless of the candidate or how inspiring or uninspiring they are.

I don’t really have a problem with rock bands becoming oldies acts. They wrote the catalog, why not keep playing it for whoever wants to hear. I’ll go hear Yo La Tengo, Radiohead, or Guided by Voices rehash old shit, no problem.

I ride in traffic uptown and I also drive a car. I think it makes sense to view bikes as somewhere in between cars and peds.

Here’s my complaint about the whole “Biden is a centrist, so he should be the candidate” argument. These people never tell you what they actually want, policy-wise. It’s all “twitter isn’t real life” and “you are alienating us!” and so on.

It’s more the Danny Hoch anecdote that poisoned the show for me.

Heh, I know. It’s just funny and surprising to me that the people I see playing these location-based games in New York usually appear to be at least in their 30s. You’d think that it’s for pre-teens and teenagers but that is clearly not the demo it really appeals to the most.

Well, I’ll tell you what. This week I was walking the dogs in NYC summer heat, and they found a shady spot where they wanted to stop. It was in a little alcove in the front of a church. I am always happy to let them stop and chill so we parked it there and I whipped out my phone.

Ain’t that the truth. It really only takes one really bad experience with your private insurer to be ready to blow the whole system up. In our case, it was

But of course it’s considered unacceptably elitist for a liberal to suggest that people voted for Trump because they are dumb.

Your mom has no class.

Yeah, those numbers seem very small.  I thought we were still feeding Nutro Ultra, so the graph interested me, but then I thought “the 10 means 10 cases?  Over five years?”