Trump and the entire GOP used to rail against the use of the official unemployment rate as an indicator of the health of the economy because it doesn’t account for the chronically unemployed. Now they use it not just to fluff up their messaging but to try and snatch food out of poor people’s mouths.

Guys. What the fuck are you doing.

Guys. What the fuck are you doing.

I was struck by the same thing. How do you amass so much wealth, power, and influence without actually knowing anything? The old man needed to be talked out of bankrolling a Republican challenger to Nancy Pelosi for chrissakes.

It’s a fuckin clock

It’s a fuckin clock

Lou Whitaker:

As long as he understands there’s no such thing as birds.

Baseball Reference has Baines at 1.8 wins above average. For a 22-year career, that’s incredibly average, almost miraculously so. Maybe being the averagest player in the Hall is a credential in itself.

Fun fact: Even if nobody is able to come to an agreement, most of the federal government is already funded through the end of the fiscal year. The Republicans left DHS out of the big funding packages they passed earlier this year for Defense/HHS/Education/Labor/VA, presumably because they thought they would have the…

Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins both acquitted themselves well as solo acts but only one made Genesis worth a shit at the helm.

A can of dog food tastes better than a Whopper, and is almost as cheap!

But if the juicing all-time greats were great in a league full of juicers, doesn’t it all come out in the wash?

How much of that bWAR was due to those Blue Jays teams sticking with a four-man rotation on when the rest of the league was moving on to five-man staffs?

I always thought of an “idiot” as the type of person who would program a software prompt to continue popping up infinitely no matter how many times you hit the ‘Cancel’ button, but I guess you have a point too.

In my experience, saying “I beg your pardon” with an annoyed look on your face will silence a room and give you space to make your point. Buttholes clench when you say those words. They’re like magic.

I still have T9 texting, so if I sleep-texted anybody and it was coherent I’d be super-impressed with myself

She got the position when, during her interview, she was asked “lettuce?” and she replied “bullshit!”

It’s far too soon to politicize this tragedy with calls for arrow control.

it was pretty well known Piazza was juicing

As someone who has written off his shitty parents, I urge you to write off yours! It’s wonderful! We’re two years in not speaking to them fuckers and my family’s life is better by magnitudes. I promise you won’t regret it.

Boy it sure looks like the most reliable red flag is “previously assaulted a woman and got away with it”