To be fair to Coakley, Brown had a lot of things going for him in that race. It was a low turnout special election on a day with terrible weather, at a time when conservatives (and quite a few moderates) saw Brown as their only chance to stop Obamacare. It was more of an uphill battle for Coakley than a lot of people…

Hey now, Coakley was a good Attorney General too. She was just terrible at campaigning in general elections. Healey is pretty great, though.

A conservative lifestyle magazine? I can already see the first post title:

Depends if Club Nintendo lets me claim my Platinum reward before the site completely collapses.

Well, I hope we leave those rigorous guidelines in place. I'm sure that will never become a political issue.

Engineering school costs six figures? I know plenty of engineers who went to public universities, paid a fraction of that, and now have lucrative careers.

So, uh, who will fly the planes?

Honestly, in most parts of the U.S. (where violent crime has dropped fairly uniformly for the past two decades) robberies generally don't involve murder. That's why the rate of break-ins is far higher than the murder rate.

I'm glad I don't live in a part of the country where there is, apparently, a gun battle every five minutes or so.

Once someone shoves a gun in your face, how do you get your own out without getting shot?

Well, that explains a lot.

Why does everyone think the new console will come out in 2016? All they said was that they are working on something. But they've probably been working on something, at least conceptually, since the Wii U was released. R&D never stops.

I don't think we're going to see that console in stores until 2017.

Congratulations. You've just passed 8th grade history.

Do you get your foreign policy insights from cartoons?

Trust me, I have (unwisely) started my share of campfires by pouring some gasoline over the wood and dropping a match. Gasoline burns just fine.

No kidding. Pretty sure my rent alone surpasses the income and sales taxes I pay every month. And my rent isn't that bad. And also, I live in Massachusetts, which apparently isn't that friendly.

Yeah, it's easy to forget — especially if you live in a big city — that there are a lot of people in country who have never met a Jew before.

This article also reminds me of some leftist activists I knew in college who nonetheless had a bad habit of dining and ditching at local establishments. Their way of sticking it to the man, I suppose.

'Merica