Fox is bifurcated that way. You have the Hannity’s who have their own shows or are recurring guests that are all in on the BS, but there’s a small group of actual journalists on the news side that do their own thing (the Sphepherd Smith wing). They’re conservatives, for sure, but they were brought in to burnish the…

Yeah, but you could pay someone “only” $10 million a year to do that figurehead work. I’d do it for $9 million and have an equally punchable face.

I mean, the owners are right. It’s mostly the lawyers that handle the difficult part of negotiations, and the owners have a lot of input too. The commissioner is mostly there to build consensus and manage competing interests. Fun fact: Goodell is terrible at that.

I think those are just NIMBYs. Again, there are a lot of different flavors of urbanists out there, but that kind of advocacy is well outside the norm.

You might be surprised based on experience, but that’s a deal most urbanists would take. Be less dumb about street parking and let people decide for themselves how they want to handle parking on their own property.

Sounds like you’re mixing up some groups. By far the biggest push is to just remove parking minimums. I had literally never heard of opposition to a private parking project. We can compromise: loosen zoning and remove anti-density regulations so that people are more free to do what they want with their property. …

Bingo. Safe withdrawal rate is 4%, so taking the 5k a month gives you a 50% greater return and less risk.

I can jump in as a new urbanist, since my my Agenda 21 team doesn’t meet for another week and my check from Soros hasn’t arrived yet.

Is sriracha just a re-brand of spicy thai? I haven’t seen those around in a while.

Not really. For example, dropping the rate in the bottom bracket to zero would give pretty much everyone with income a cut of $932.50. In that case the benefits would be pretty proportional (ie about 1% to the top 1%). What gives you cuts tilted to upper incomes is cuts to those upper brackets. Cut to lower…

But it’s not “they did it first.” All presidents take leisure time, because they’re human. The problem is that Trump (and his surrogates) made a big deal out of Obama golfing, only to then go on golf trip literally every weekend of his term, so far. It’s absolutely a fair criticism to point out (a) his hypocrisy…

I think you hit on the exact reason that being high income didn’t feel luxurious: to earn that kind of money, you need to put in a lot of hours of high stress work. I’ve seen it with finance and biglaw folks. That pressure can distort things, since you can easily look at even richer folks who have a freer lifestyle.…

Yes, for years. Do you realize that the vast majority of people/families even in NYC make far less than a half million a year?

Yes, it absolutely does. $500k a year makes you extremely rich, even with 2 kids. It allows you to live in the most expensive city in America, in luxury housing, with a luxury car (that you don’t need), take luxury vacations, constantly go to (or have delivery from) amazing restaurants, and access premium cultural…

That was one of the big things I learned from the election: Evangelicals, and conservatives generally, can mostly be distilled down into single issue anti-abortion voters. Nothing else matters to a huge portion of that side of the aisle. I had always thought that abortion was “just” a major issue, but one among…

You can tell it’s extra bad because the crazy Trump supporters down in the greys can’t even defend him. All they can do is dribble out variations of “Whatever, cucks. MAGA.”

It’s not liberals getting “free shit” from Amtrak. Amtrak is profitable for its NE Corridor and California routes. The problem is that Congress forces Amtrak to run a bunch of other routes across less dense parts of the country that absolutely hemorrhage money. Legally requiring Amtrak to waste money and then…

Just adding that one big benefit of the free forms is no income cutoff, so literally anyone can use them.

Again, we all agree that the risk allocation on the exchanges is out of whack. Cutting subsidies and Medicaid isn’t going to address those older patients; it’s just going to kick them out. Do you really think that’s the way to go?

By subsidies do you mean the risk corridors? Those were eliminated a while ago.