“I DON’T NEED TO REFLECT ON HOW THIS ENDED UP THIS WAY; I AM A SMART PERSON WHO LIVES WITH SMART PEOPLE IN A SMART DISTRICT WHICH ALSO, CONVENIENTLY ABSOLVES ME OF HAVING TO TAKE ANY ACTION WHATSOEVER TO REMEDY THIS. IF YOU NEED ME, I WILL BE SHOPPING FOR SMALL-BATCH SAFETY PINS FROM INDEPENDENT DESIGNERS.”

Sure. The author gives good, practical, advice about engaging and confronting the people that actually have the power as legislators (i.e. actually *doing something*) and you practically trip over yourself in a rush to be a condescending dick.

That attitude? That snarky snap judgment you just goosed up there on response to thoughtful and, frankly, good, practical advice? Based on nothing other than the writer’s previous previous fucking employer?

Good.

Peep Albert Burneko exposing himself as a white male grievance voter, a fact that he somewhat shrewdly obscures by using the broadly neutral, faux analytical language common among Sanders-deadenders, rather than the pants-on-head insane language of Trump supporters.

Dear Everyone-

All comedians are part time comedians, bud. There’s no money in stand up. That dude you saw straight kill for 25 minutes in front of a major headliner at a huge club? Probably made $250 on the show. On an 8 show week, that’s 2,000 gross.

This analysis basically begins and ends with Fausto Carmona, which is made even cooler by the fact that it was a fake name.

I consider myself a freelance brand ambassador for the combination of bong rips and pots of strong black coffee.

Maybe one or two isolated incidents does not a systematic problem make.

That’s a distinction without a difference.

Yeah. It totally is.

Amen. You want tough, independent kids? Make ‘em take the 43 home.

Also: let me just add, as someone who grew up in SF: If you raise your kids in Menlo Park, you need to accept that they are going to grow up to be softer than baby shit. It’s fait accompli. Your glorified trampoline isn’t going fix that.

Silicon Valley “big think” checklist:

If Peter Thiel is one of the “most amazing people” you’ve ever met, you are either lying or need to get out of the house more.

Eternal LOL at the people pushing Clinton as email-hidin’ banker coddler.

So it’s bad for the  junior (and then former) senator from New Fucking York to maintain a relationship with a major industry that also happens to be in her constituency?

EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT! POLITICIANS PRIVATELY WEIGH FEASIBILITY OF THEIR IDEAS.

Or that game might *also* be a stupid thing for stupid people.