The Spyderco Sharpmaker system is about as idiot-proof as it comes while still properly sharpening one’s knives. If you can hold your knife at a 90-degree angle, you can use it successfully. It costs about the same as a decent set of whetstones, and comes with a delightfully dated demonstration DVD explaining how to…

Someone got me the YETI tumbler, and I like it well enough except that the lid doesn’t close, so I tend not to use it as much. I might try to get one of their MagSlider lids. Otherwise, I like how easy it is to clean and it works well.

Someone got me the YETI tumbler, and I like it well enough except that the lid doesn’t close, so I tend not to use…

Ditto, plus I kind whip my hand through my hair and beard to shake out some water. I also mostly dry off in the shower so the next person doesn’t have a sopping bath mat to step on and subsequently get water all over the bathroom floor. Even if it were just me, I’d still mostly dry off in the shower so that I didn’t…

There is no mention of knocking or the absence of knocking in the WaPo article. It just says “Federal agents appeared at Paul Manafort’s home without advance warning in the predawn hours of July 26....” 

I’ve often been amused that the biggest fans of white supremacy and neo-Nazism tend to be people who almost certainly would have been classified as Untermenschen by the actual Nazis.

Probably for the same reason Puerto Rico was not included. This is about state governments.

Neato! Do they make you put your credentials in the ribbon of your fedora too? :-)

Do you mean you write about sporting events you do not actually attend, or just that you do not need to go to a physical office to file a story?

Do you stand outside elementary schools telling children that Santa Claus is made up and that they and their parents are all inevitably going to die? Free Speech! ;-)

You raise some interesting arguments; to offer a counterpoint: you cannot give rights to a fetus without taking them away from a woman, who is unequivocally a fully formed human being. Even the Bible suggests strongly that life begins at first breath, and that life and breath are the same thing (see, inter alia, Gen.…

It also hypocritical for someone to claim to be for “law and order” and then celebrate vigilantism. We are a nation of laws. Of course, this is an area that has taken a bit longer than most to get on board with the concept that lynch mobs are not okay, so I cannot say I am surprised.

You couldn’t even make it past the first photo (though something tells me you didn’t make it past the headline):

So, if you kill someone, we should definitely kill you back. Even though it’s not cost effective, has no demonstrable deterrent effect, is not restorative, is demonstrably systemically racist and classist in its implementation, and cannot be remedied if it is done in error (which occurs with unconscionable…

Because cruel and unusual punishment is explicitly prohibited by the U.S. Constitution.

Anyone who thinks women flippantly and capriciously use abortion as a primary means of birth control has never had an abortion or talked to someone who has. I can’t imagine there is a woman alive who would take a medical abortion over contraception.

Me gusta el imbécil que dijo “crime doesn’t pay”. Es un crimen entrar sin visa, pero no es un crimen quedar con una visa vencida (lo que pasó con la joven), es una cuestión de derecho civil.

I don’t get it.

Jason Kander had a great bit about this sort of thing pointing out it is the same as how they often treat vets: they would rather celebrate veterans with resolutions instead of resources. Definitely seems to be the case here too.

Possibly better course of action: remain at restaurant, be absolute dicks to waiter (i.e. engage in all the behavior you never get to because you’re a decent person, e.g. snap to get attention, address the waiter as “garçon”, talk down to him, etc.), stay for like three hours just sipping at coffee, then leave no tip,…

Be sure to let us know how that works. Or, rather, please designate someone to report back on that.