Most definitely not. State Street has a market capitalization of ~$37 billion, and an Enterprise value of ~$54 billion. Either of those numbers works for a “value”, depending on your definition, but neither is anywhere near $2.6T. State Street is not particularly big, by mega Wall Street bank standards. Citi has a…

“Niche” was probably not the right word. Horror with an actual plot and characters is sort of what I meant. Horror movies like It Follows, the Witch, Oculus, the Descent, the Babadook, Let the Right One In, etc., where characters have actual motivations beyond screwing their boyfriend onscreen before they die naked at…

No, she’s not. Neither is Jon Stewart, neither is Stephen Colbert. Al Franken is getting warmer. Just because they nominated a celebrity with no experience or interest in governance and he happened to win doesn’t mean we should do the same.

As a niche horror movie guy, I am a bit shocked to see how well this is doing commercially, despite the pretty universal critical praise. I went to see “It Follows” opening weekend, bought tickets at the door and only about 75% of the seats were taken. Went to the “the Witch” opening weekend, bought tickets at the…

Pretty amazing that you wrote this whole article and just threw in “Aurora borealis deal” like that’s a mediocre water park. I know a few people who have been to Iceland, and that was the primary draw for all of them. There are of course other places to see the Lights (Canada, Alaska), which is where the cheap airfare…

“And now his staff all use private email servers!”

Deulofeu is not a real name. Deadspin is fake news. Sad!

Our dear President is very interested in the classes with kryptonite under the floor to keep out the illegal aliens. #MakeMetropolisGreatAgain

Hamilton, I like your writing. But when you say things like “The stock rally that followed Trump’s victory made Goldman Sachs partners $800 million richer” with no qualifiers at all, it makes it pretty hard to take you seriously.

Irrelevant. Movie producers will now simply cut the actors open and count the rings.

Considering how much of my paycheck goes to rent, yes, I would call room and board a form of payment. But that is precisely my point. We are already paying them, so I don’t understand the hand-wringing about the ethical implications of payment. We already pay them. Now it is just about wages; this is a labor issue.…

The players are paid. They get free tuition. They are simply not paid FAIRLY. The NCAA acts as an monopoly employer would, by suppressing wages to maximize profits. The fact that the fans and the government allow them to do it based on ludicrous semantics around “amateurism” and some false sense of morality is the…

So the “Heartbeat Bill” was a misdirect. How very Trumpian. I’ll remember that next time someone tells me the Republican party won’t be the party of Trump just because he’ll be POTUS.

Breaking: another day, another former Goldman employee joining the Trump administration. Goldman COO Gary Cohn in as National Economic Council Director.

Aha, right you are. Perhaps a quick follow up then with the number for Kasich’s state office in it. It appears to be down in the comments of that article, but a little reminder couldn’t hurt.

I’m desperately hoping the article on Ohio’s “heartbeat” abortion bill, which is on Kasich’s desk and would ban abortion after 6 WEEKS, is next in the Jezebel queue.

How does Johnny Manziel still have money?

You know what might have cleared some of this up? Body camera footage.

It is not a betrayal of the progressive movement to say that collecting Social Security at 65 made sense when life expectancy was 67 and doesn’t when it is in the mid 80s. It is not a betrayal of the progressive movement to think free trade benefits the economy as a whole, and what we need to do a better job of is…

“What if he didn’t do it?”