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Aside from a wince-inducing sex scene, Munich is Spielberg’s best attempt at straightforward drama, in my opinion. Really underrated.

Recent research suggests that public pensions are not nearly in as bad shape as conservatives argue: http://theweek.com/articles/682082/public-pensions-are-better-shape-than-think

Gawker really is dead, Rich. You can’t resurrect it by trying to ape the style of its worst years. Move on.

they killed my beloved Rock Cats for this shit :(

You’re aware that data and analytics were used to create racist programs like Stop and Frisk, right? Data and analytics are not inherently good and in fact are frequently used for evil.

Little bummed out to see people saying that data and analytics are the key to social justice. Data and analytics are value neutral; what matters is how they’re used and by whom. Data and analytics were behind the police “reforms” in New York City that led to stop and frisk. People need to be more careful, I think.

Mathematically, third party voters helped Clinton, not hurt her. Check the numbers.

Every little bit, Nasser explained, counts.

All the Mike Williamseseses.

I’m perpetually charmed that you think the bland conventionality of your tastes and aesthetic is somehow edgy

what if it doesn’t work out and they decide they’d rather have Boogie, that’s the really juicy question

It’s interesting because Chris Rock said almost exactly the same thing about playing college campuses but doesn’t get the pushback. I think maybe it’s just a generational thing with comics.

The basic dynamic of American politics right now is that the progressive side controls the mechanisms of discourse, culture, and education - the media is dominantly made up of (cultural and social, at least, though often not economic) progressives, academia is famously left-wing (though the elite institutions…

Now the country is in the classic tourist dilemma: if the tourism continues to increase, it will continue to destroy all the things that people liked about the country in the first place, given that all the quaint stuff is being replaced with the tourism industry; if it doesn’t continue to increase, the economy will…

Well, because it’s not a fact, actually. That the First Amendment does not protect only from police action is a fact, which you can find out with a little research. The case law and precedents on this are long and complex, but it is simply, factually, historically inaccurate to say that the First Amendment has no…

No, the First Amendment protects you from the government. Freedom of speech is a far larger, broader concept. And thank god: if the only protections of free expression were freedom from being jailed, your employed could read this comment and fire you for it. Or fire you for having a campaign sign on your lawn. Or fire…

I don’t have any problem with this activist snatching that flag. I think it’s great. But freedom of speech is not restricted to the First Amendment, and it’s a terrible mistake for the left to think that it is.

Given that Jeff Sessions sits in the single most powerful legal office in the country, I’d say the government more than tolerates their existence.

“Kaput” is a great name for a poison.