Unemployment was lower at several points in the 50s and 60s, and it was actually accompanied by significant wage growth.

Median real hourly wage 1972: $24 an hour
Median real hourly wage 2018: $23.50 an hour

Median real household income 1972: $58,260
Median real household income 2018: $62,262

Class mobility is the lowest…

Drew Magary is, at least temporarily, writing Fun Bag on Vice.com!!  Yeah!  At least one good writer can still be read.  Pass it along!

Every news site that picks up a Splinter contributor is better for it. I loved you, Splinter, and the Internet is a worse place without you.

They killed it without any warning or send-off on purpose, to show that they not only didn’t respect or value Splinter, but that they had open contempt for its content and its staff.

Nikki Haley actually said “The people” should decide Trump’s fate, not a bunch of congressmen. Ignoring the fact that congressmen are elected by the people and responsibility for impeachment is in their goddamn job description.

This.

I didn’t agree with a lot of the posts on Splinter and I often disagreed with a lot of the comments. But the one thing I always appreciated was that when something absolutely ludicrous happened and not nearly enough people were going around saying, “What the flying fuck was that?” I could always find people on…

How Splinter and Deadspin were handled was atrocious, the having Splinter go dead and having no announcement whatsoever was shitty on the part of Spamfiller and Madman. They should have dropped in a post like this when they pulled the plug.

Thank you for consistently screaming what the mainstream media wouldn’t dare to even whisper. Actually calling lies lies. Saying outright that these old republican fucks are ghouls. Calling bullshit on any and all both-siderism.

As Caitlin said, this site was the sanest place online, precisely because it spoke the…

So weird that I hit the Splinter logo by mistake instead of the CNN one on my phone faves just now. And I see a 13 minute old post? Huh?

Towards the end it got a little too far left at times, and I’m 99% sure about a third of the comments were by trolls (mostly masquerading as liberals). But it was a good way to get the new succinctly. CNN is such a cluster I have trouble trying to figure out what might actually be important news and what’s just crap.

True words. I miss it daily.

While the loss of the Yorktown was regrettable, the American navy almost immediately replaced her with bigger, better designed carriers. The Japanese lost their 4 fleet carriers, which for them was irreplaceable. The results of Midway effectively eliminated the IJN as a force capable of projecting power in offensive…

I went through the whole gamut of emotions from huge excitement to crushing disappointment upon 1) hearing that somebody was making a movie about Midway and 2) finding out that fucking Roland Emmerich was that somebody.

Saw a YouTube of the History Channel show about the Real Black Sheep Squadron. I remember watching the NBC show Baa baa Black Sheep as a kid. I thought the gull winged F4U Corsair was the 2nd coolest plane next to a SR71 and Robert Conrad was awesome. Then I saw a younger Conrad in Wild Wild West on TBS reruns, I…

well, even though on paper it seems like something closer to a draw when you compare the tactical losses/gains it was all about the strategic outcome, which is why the americans are 100% correct to call this a victory.

japan’s only hope was to drive the US back to their own shores as quickly as possible, seize as many…

SSSHHHHHH don’t give them any ideas. Otherwise, Michael Bay or Dinesh D’Souza will option “Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors” from James Hornfischer and make Roland Emmerich look like frickin’ Scorcese.

Sir, may I present to you Morgan Creek:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Hood:_Prince_of_Thieves

I’m surprised it’s even marginally watchable; word leaked out that the military liaisons and others were being asked such basic questions that the script and directing for this thing was always going to have an end product that landed somewhere in the Pearl Harbor 2 range.

Really, a C is the only grade a movie called Midway could possibly get.