And now the Trump administration is polluting state politics with its runoff. As if Florida doesn’t already have enough of its own problems. 

The problem is that many procedures have multiple billing codes, depending on how they’re done and what level of severity/complexity/risk is involved. And there often isn’t an easy way to tell how a given procedure will be billed until after it’s done and everything is tallied. At best, a lot of this stuff is going to…

The high point of his career has been Elf, which probably isn’t saying much. Anchorman and Talladega Nights were ok, but probably won’t age well. Most of the rest of his his movies will actually kill more of your brain cells than a weekend of binge drinking.

It’s on the same level as applying for admission to a laundry list of HBCs because you’re 1/32 African-American, and *really* proud of it.

She’s too flaky for the DINO/Republican-lite crowd. But she has the force of personality of a mildly annoyed librarian, so I doubt she’s the harbinger of meaningful progressive policy ideas that the left-leaning wing of the party is looking for. And the whole DNA test thing left her looking more than a little…

Part of the deal with being a civil servant is that you make fair to middling wages for 30 years straight, dealing with a complicated and often nonsensical bureaucracy, in exchange for a pension check in your retirement.  Outside a few high level managers, these are not people with a ton of money in the bank even in…

Was there a recent concern that the banks didn’t have sufficient liquidity to keep things running smoothly, Steve? What are you *not* telling us? Are you trying to inoculate the administration from an imminent bombshell expose about how all those post-financial-crisis stress tests were either completely misguided or…

Zenni actually does offer blue light blocking lenses as an option if you’re getting your prescription filled there (they call them “Blockz”). I haven’t tried them yet, but they don’t add too much to the price of the lenses - I’ll probably give it a shot the next time I get my prescription updated.

I dunno. The whole deal with Syria has left me pretty conflicted. I’m glad that we’re getting out of what is evolving into another police engagement in a failed nation-state that has no discernible end point, and we’re decreasing the potential for a major incident with Russia or Iran. Thing is...the way it’s being…

You don’t get general’s stars by being Gunny Hartman 24/7; it’s not too much of a stretch that he might be diplomatic about his departure, especially if he’s coming back around to run for office again.

It feels like SHS is going to spend the next press conference either shrugging helplessly or mumbling, “Your guess is as good as mine at this point.”

It sure beat the hell out of watching hours and hours of YouTubers unboxing and playing with toys.

Wouldn’t that be some shit, if Pelosi could talk Trump into backing a Medicare-for-all plan under the Trumpcare name and put McConnell on his heels to fight against a “bipartisan” universal healthcare plan?

I’d much rather see him nominate Bill Murray, instead. 

Clarissa Mao’s transition from the novels to the show is one piece of revisionism that just didn’t work well.  Without her internal dialogue and some of the backstory in the novel (that wouldn’t have translated well to the screen) she just seemed incomplete.

Ashen was kind of like that. Hadn’t heard of it before it ended up on GamePass, but it’s eaten several of the past evenings’ gaming sessions. The last “souls” game I had actually enjoyed was Demon’s Souls, but the art and the sudden shifts from soothing to terrifying make it pretty engrossing. 

GamePass + XBL is the XBox One’s biggest strength at this point. For the price of buying about 3 AAA games, you get a year’s worth of having more games at your disposal than you could reasonably play (and still lead a somewhat productive life). And while some of them are classic XB360 games and obscure indie games,…

I’m all for that on the principle alone, but (AOC not withstanding, once she takes office) most members of Congress are well-off enough that a couple months without their government paycheck would only be a minor inconvenience.

Bah. At this point, the Democrats have to come to accept that the only way they’re going to exercise any power for the next two years is if they make it clear that they are completely willing to go nuclear to get the job done. As long as the Republicans know they’re too afraid to shut down the government over their…