By coincidence, the magnets inside dead hard drives are pretty good for magnetizing screwdrivers.

Gerrymandering is not nearly as big a problem as people like to think. It actually comes a distant second to “incumbency” in determining outcomes. So if we could, by some miracle, get term limits in Congress, things would quickly improve enormously — maybe even to the point where we could address the gerrymandering…

In the streets and in the fields, one hears the fearsome rallying cry: Good Christ, anything but that!

Putting this on Kobe is the most bullshitty thing about this whole shitty business. I don’t care how much clout Kobe has, it’s a completely absurd proposition: “This guy would have conquered his drug and sex problems if only his friend had put him on his NBA team”. Does Master Pee not hear those words coming out of…

Yeah, that is an ugly term (and I didn’t even know that was an official term). Ugh.

1) No, that’s how it works in some places. In other places, taxi drivers are independent, own their own vehicles, etc.

Pet peeve: Can we please stop calling either one “ride sharing”? It’s a distinctly Orwellian way of ducking an important debate.

The US Congress: the best legislators money can buy.

I’m what you call a “normal” fan, and I immediately noticed that the prequels had little or no regard for the details of the original trilogy. And it grated. But in all fairness, that’s not a prequel problem. That casual disregard for consistency or continuity began as early as 20 minutes into Empire Strikes Back,…

I DVR Jeopardy too, so that I can watch it when nobody is around, then replay it the next day as if it’s live. My family all think I’m a genius.

I DVR Jeopardy too, so that I can watch it when nobody is around, then replay it the next day as if it’s live. My…

It was only last year that I realized “Is Pepsi OK?” is not, in fact, their official slogan.

What software stack are you running on that? My external RAID box died recently so I need a replacement, and while I’m increasingly wary of the long rebuild times with conventional RAID, I need some sort of protection against drive failure.

Winning money at daily fantasy essentially involves the same kind of soul-destroying monotony as counting cards at Blackjack. You can probably grind out some edge, but you’ll wish you had a more fulfilling job, like custodian at an inner city high school.

So you’re saying that Adrian Peterson probably shouldn’t be eligible for Comeback Player of the year?

It might sound like that, but it doesn’t. Sorry.

IANAL, but most of this is quite wrong. First of all, copyright is copyright and where something is published makes no difference. The “share” button in no way authorizes this usage. And second, “fair use” absolutely does not apply in this case. When the usage is purely or overwhelmingly commercial, and such a…

It’s OK as long as you don’t swallow.

OT pedantic point: The Bible doesn’t actually specify what kind of fruit it was. Later tradition blamed the apple.

I bought the Bodum shot glasses last time you listed them. Ever since I got them, every other shot glass I own has literally been gathering dust.

I bought the Bodum shot glasses last time you listed them. Ever since I got them, every other shot glass I own has…