“this politician with obvious ties to this industry helped secure hundreds of millions of dollars for billionaires for a project that’s been shown over and over again not to benefit the public in the least.”

And as a high profile mayor for a major California city, a mayor with big name recognition all over the state, he is (or was) a likely future nominee for governor, which means that he would eventually be positioned to direct a shit ton of money their way through state policy involving charter schools. They’re not…

I also have a NSA spy cam blocker. Unlike Rand Paul’s, mine won’t cost you $15, and does not have the name of a jackass printed on it.

I would imagine his lawyer is giving him the same advice. I mean, goddam, you are the brothel owner where a high visibility client (with known addiction issues) OD’d and may die, possibly in part due to supplements he bought at your place. It’s pretty much guaranteed that a massive lawsuit is coming your way, probably…

Right, plus then it was immediately co-opted by people as if it was an AIDS ribbon or some other sign you use to signal your solidarity. If the whole point is that you use it as a sign to tell someone that you are a DV victim and you need help, then it really does not help when tons of people are doing the exact same…

D) a baseball slugger-cum-philosopher, trenchantly arguing that our chief tool to mock the outrageous acts of others is, ironically, the same tool used by those we mock to generate our outrage, thus suggesting that our outrage is not directed at others, but at our primal selves.

The comma is your friend, friend.

The thing people get wrong is assuming that their grieving friends don’t want to talk about their loved one. Don’t hide from them. Just tell them you’d love to see them for coffee and follow through with it. Their pain will be raw and real, but I guarantee you that years later they will remember that you were there…

One thing to avoid is to make false gestures and promises. “I’d love to buy you dinner sometime,” or “let’s go get coffee sometime and talk.” Instead, try something specific and defined: “can I bring you guys dinner next week?” Or “Are you free this week for coffee?” When my wife’s dad died, a ton of her friends made…

There had better fucking be an Elizabeth Warren cameo in here.

I’m sure the new stadium has larger and more plentiful luxury suites (which I’m also sure they project at 100% occupancy), may feature personal seat licenses (sure to go over well in St. Louis), and will charge more per seat. What I wonder about is what kind of revenue guarantees they’ve baked into the contract. I’m…

Most of the hot takes would be provided by NFL GMs hoping that their insightful concerns about his “lack of commitment and questionable team spirit” would cause him to fall in the draft.

“Did Kobe stand around grandstanding before juking about 30 different ways before throwing off an ill-advised jumper because his teammates didn’t do anything, or did Kobe’s teammates stand around and not do anything because they knew that no matter what they did he’d still stand around grandstanding before juking…

Not to mention the fact that KD could for a moment consider the fact that one of his relatives, friends, agents, etc. mentioned something to SAS and didn’t tell him about it. People are rarely forthcoming with their employer about being a source for the media. The fact is, many people LIKE being considered an inside…

Shit, you knew what he MEANT, and it took him 75% of the time it would take everyone else. That’s efficiency!!

“Muslim parenting styles encourage terrorism, say experts.”

I’m baffled that the teachers-should-carry-guns crowd doesn’t see that all this will do is encourage the dreams of kids who want to die in a heroic shootout with the teachers at their school. I mean, seriously—for every kid who’s like “well, I *was* going to shoot up the school, but one of the teachers might be armed,…

Man, if only there was some way that Google could retaliate, some way of making it, say, harder for people to FIND Amazon.com when they were SEARCHING for something to buy.

No, “fee fees” is a term to indicate that you are crying like a baby about your feelings about something stupid. Yes, men should have feelings. I have them, for example. I love my kids. I get all teary eyed when I go up to bed at night and my daughter has written me a little note about how much she loves me, and left…

You’ve got the haughty arrogance down PAT, son. May I take the liberty of forwarding your resume on to Gregg Easterbook for his consideration?