Thank you! A small amount of financial literacy goes so far. Everyone should understand the relationship between real and nominal values... if only so that old novels make more sense.

He's got to mean "set" in the sense of "long-lasting and reliable"... as in "I've got a set group of friends"

Mmmm... convincing stuff. 50K assaults on cops annually, right? And an upper bound of 1,000 civilian deaths via police action (regardless of circumstances) annually, per the "Killed by Police" project.

I keep seeing this phrase, and it bewilders me. "Punishable by death" implies some kind of specific legal judgment ... not a range of potential outcomes, the least likely of which is death.

Is that a smear?

She did film (and book) reviews back in the Sixties, I think. I don't think any ideological endorsement was implied — in either direction.

I'm sitting here thinking about all the beers I've had in weird places around the world, and how much "impotent, hypocritical jealous rage" that apparently causes Will Gordon to feel.

Pendleton seems to make it look pretty easy: hire Native artists; donate proceeds to the American Indian College Fund. All good.

Yeah, 'cause nothing says "keeping it real" like you posting a bunch of would-be learned poker references, coupled with one to "full tilts" (sic).

"JJ Watt is Goddamn Lying...."

Hah, OK. If you know the multiplier for 1920 dollars off the top of your head, you're a far better person than me.

Sixty cents in 1920 dollars = $7 today.

"Henry Kamen estimates in Spain 1469-1714: A Society of Conflict that Spanish armies murdered and enslaved up to 100,000 Muslims and forced another 20,000 to flee."

Hmm.... if you peaked in HS, you probably had as much intimate exposure to teen-age boys (or girls) as you cared to, no?

Possibly the most entertaining episode of Lemming Outrage in commentariat history. Thanks!

"Devastating"? "Skewered"?

"Gardner Fiveash. ("We want it to be like Divergent meets Nantucket...")

Cute turn of phrase — though in practice, the Duke administration acted with extreme speed and force to the allegations against the lacrosse team.

Interesting headline... not least because the study data imply that with perfect availability of BC and abortions, we'd still see far higher rates of unintended pregnancy among lower-income groups.

Sigh.