While the Dems cleaned house in the House in 2018, they were a lot more mixed in state-wide races, where rural GOP voters, uncharacteristically galvanized for midterm voters whose Party controls everything, balanced out historically high turnout for urban and suburban Democrats. The two most broadly cited factors for…

I wasn’t really trying to call your card, I was just genuinely very curious how that’s not a problem of capitalism. I’m fully on board that blended systems of capitalism and other models exist and can work, but then, strictly speaking, they’re not purely capitalist. The logic of capitalism is inherently destructive…

98% of the time buildings are investment tools. the big question isn’t -how can we make this a really great nice place to live? it’s this: how much can we make off of the lowest possible investment?

It’s because the modern world has sourced virtually all infrastructural development to the private sector, so everything is built with profit motive in mind, which means efficiency, low overhead, quick turnaround. Which is why all the rare contemporary exceptions people are coming up—libraries, churches, museums,…

Ha, you made me miss living in Southern California, where everyone randomly works on something connected to show business somehow.

Yeah, those two and Janelle Monae are the only ones I could hum any work by. I mean, I don’t have a problem with Ariana Grande or anyone being there. It’s just weird to see an institution from your youth change so much, but hey, that’s what happens.

Right, it seems like it’s been different for a while now. I think OP was only just learning that the change ever happened at all, which I get—I forget about it every year until I see coverage of the lineup and then I feel just a little further out of touch.

I feel like originally when Coachella had mega-performers, they were the kind who had been indie or alternative some time ago but had gradually become so influential that they were at that point a Big Deal. Like, Radiohead, The Pixies, Rage Against the Machine, Beck, etc. I wouldn’t put Ariana Grande there. To your…

I had the same question, but just looked up the lineup. The top 6 billed acts are Childish Gambino, Janelle Monae, Tame Impala, Solange, Ariana Grande, and Khalid. Janelle Monae and Tame Impala strike me as classic Coachella type picks (maybe Childish Gambino?), but overall it seems to basically be a pop festival now.…

I’m starting to feel like we’re getting to a point where nothing is allowed.

Why no mention of Beverly’s flying karate chop on Durant right before the play where they both got ejected?

Did he really? Is that, like, a known thing?

LOL, true.

If you’re going to participate in civil disobedience, then you are accepting that jail is a highly possible repercussion

Seriously. You want to be treated like a journalist, you have to act like one. When you selectively release damaging material to inflict calculated political damage on specific parties in order to advance your own interest, you’re not a journalist, you’re just a hack. And my appreciation of some of the stories he’s…

Ha, that person argues in sufficiently bad faith for me to almost believe it’s actually Glenn Greenwald.

Damn it, this was the first year I’d finally thrown down for an NBA League Pass, because things were finally looking up enough to spend the money. A year of great fun, and now.

With respect to point (1). The death rate for measles is around 1 in 1000. The measles vaccine was introduced 56 years ago, in 1963, and conveniently, the US Census breaks an age demographic at 55. So we know there are around 230 million people in the US under 56.

Yes, well, you sound rational.

He definitely means GMG. You can find a decent number of commenters across the GMG blogs who seem to think all the desks of all the various blogs somehow work together to advance a sinister agenda. People asking why The Root is conspiring with The AV Club and i09, because they all happen to cover the same hot news…