The argument will be that high frequency trading is necessary for efficient distribution of capital and any tax will cause stock prices to collapse.

Exactly. Which is why only a fool accepts payment based on net rather than gross.

If Chait thinks these higher wages could have been achieved with a simple demand, whybdisnt he make the demand himself? He’s willing to give up salary (he says), he’s got a direct line to management, and he thinks it’s a laudable goal (he says). Weird how the demand never got made until there was a union.

These goals, which I support, could have been achieved by a simple demand. A demand which I never made and do not support now that it has been made. These goals express principles which I believe in strongly.

Libby is collecting some of their greatest hits, so I assume we are getting a great summation of it soon

Why should I, as a fan, give a shit if the owner makes or loses money? Why would I root for or care about that at all? Why would it enter into my consideration of what I want for the team?

But it wasn’t his face. Ben has been nice to him personally. He’s got a cushy job. Plenty of conservative gays were against gay marriage. Their faces are still whole.

I honestly forgot that happened, so put me in that category, although I never complained about him making excuses. Morneau’s concussion problems were just so front and center and shitty that it overshadowed his.

Absolutely. But I don’t think we have another handy term to describe the Peterson-Shapiro-Rubin axis of idiocy.

The brain injury is Morneau. Mauer’s was “bilateral weakness,” which is some kind of nerve problem in his legs and also a nightmare.

It’s the plural that’s going to get you in trouble.

It’s the central grift of the so-called Intellectual Dark Web. That they’re telling secret truths revealed by hard reasoning, rather than telling you what you want to hear and asking for money.

The Federalists’ entire shtick is getting members of the Leopards Eating Faces party who haven’t had their faces eaten yet write articles about how their faces are never going to be eaten.

I’ve had this same argument with so many Twins fans around Mauer’s retirement. You almost always hear some version of “they overpaid him.” With the only correct response being “who gives a shit?” The Pohlads have artificially capped what they spend the entire time I’ve been alive, even as the state built them a new…

Can I use oat milk when I’m making oat cups for Jay?

Didn’t a ref fuck up a coin flip a few years back? Like, it didn’t flip so he picked it up and re-flipped it?

For sure I don’t expect it from Splinter. But you just know that line is going to be all over the Sunday shows.

Looking forward to being told I need to vote for Joe Biden in the primary “because he can win” despite there being no evidence to support that theory.

It’s also impossible to plan for the report when nobody, not even Trump, has any idea what the entire scope of the misdeeds were. From what we’ve gotten so far, it’s easy to see that there was plenty of freelancing in the corruption space. And who is left in the administration from the campaign team? Kellyanne and…

It’s not surprising to see a guy like Douthat pining for something that only makes sense in a literal feudal society. If only we gave the elites their due device, they would see we were fed and housed and protected from war.