The solutions to income inequality that are not precluded by the Constitution are precluded by a Republican majority in Congress. Politicians don’t prosper by telling their supporters, “Absent a revolution, I can’t help you.”

For my emotional well-being, I gave up on the Redskins in the summer of 2009. Gregg Williams left in January, after Snyder had made a quarterbacks coach with no NFL coordinator experience the head coach of the Redskins; this coach, Jim Zorn, is the only NFL head coach in history to get a play-calling assistant coach…

I guess threatening the scholarships of everyone involved would just be an unfortunate but unrelated happenstance.

Problems with nuclear energy as an answer to climate change:

1. Build reactors? Build them where?
2. See #1.

In addition to all the other objections, no airliner would actually use this system, since it seems to contemplate some kind of carrier-style landing wherein airplanes put it down on an arresting device and then are carted around the city on some kind of conveyor belt. Airliners are built to land softer than that -…

Chrysler received $2.4B from the Treasury to survive until it could merge with Fiat in a new company, post-bankruptcy. Since this fine for its bad behavior is a tiny fraction of what the taxpayer spent to save it, Chrysler should act like it owes a duty of care to the consumer beyond “narrowly avoiding prosecution.”…

If Chrysler and GM management are going to screw up or disregard their internal QC, put out defective products on the market and then slow-roll recalls for known issues, they deserve whatever they get from NHTSA because their management is embarrassing the administration that saved their businesses from being sold in…

The fine is a punishment for the company. It works independently of a recall intended to make the consumer whole. Do you argue your parking tickets with the magistrate because you’re not repaying the specific drivers eyeing the parking spot you took without paying for it?

My wife used to represent litigants in child welfare matters. Basically, whenever CPS takes enough of an interest in a child’s well-being to consider taking him out of his parents’ home, everybody including the child is entitled to a lawyer, appointed or retained. This led to contact with some parents who would…

As a finishing touch on a piece about consent, she could release the IP address of everyone who watched her video without their consent.

Ridership is highest between NYC, DC and PHL because (a) a car is more of a liability than a benefit in all of them, (b) public transportation investment inside the cities is high because of population density, and (c) the short distances between them make the train time-competitive with a flight going to the same…

Maybe Oberyn was a little hypocritical too, when it comes to revenge for children related to him on people outside the family.

Everybody in the Marvel universe has at least one shitty arc. If you're headlining your own title, there will be at least half a dozen.

Grand Northern Conspiracy.

Jesus. What it must have been like to have an English class with you people. "Why did Hemingway even bother having Santiago catch the fish if the sharks are just going to eat it?" "Ugh, Shakespeare. Why did you kill Cassius and let that little bitch Brutus give the soliloquy at the end?" I'm sure there's a Drizzt…

The show creator is often the biggest problem for a show's continued success. See also Carter, Chris.

No, he did. Reread the first Davos chapter in Dance.

Sulla is made for HBO, and my God, would "The Grass Crown" make a great series.

I just read the entire Masters of Rome series six months ago. How sad.

The F-35 will be a deadly adversary to any aircraft that lands near where it's parked on the ramp.