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I also mysteriously lost my star recently. In fact, it seems that several dozen prominent commenters have been un-followed for no particular reason that I can discern. Did you, by chance, join the chorus of commenters who were critical of Libby Watson’s “Obama doesn’t get it” article? I feel like my comments on the mat…

Yeah, that’s kind of the thing. Beto is a fantastic candidate who has run this campaign about as well as anyone could. I don’t think it’s a stretch to compare the energy he inspires to that of Barack Obama, circa 2004. But Texas is still Texas, and though he may come closer than any other Democrat has in that state in…

I do keep one of those in my trunk... but only so I can use it to dig a shittin’ hole. I’ve actually never considered that it might have other uses in an emergency...

You wrote this entire wall of text while apparently remaining unaware that used and CPO cars exist. If the problem is finding something affordable, here’s a hint: you don’t want to buy the fucking thing new!

Nobody makes affordable sports cars anymore? Did you forget that the Miata, Toyota 86, and Ford Mustang still exist?

Agree about him being forced to resign, like Nixon.

His middle name is “Cab”, isn’t it?

See, I actually did get the point of the article. And I can even sort of agree with it: the line in his speech that apparently angered her enough to fire off that piece was some classic bullshit poli-speak. Libby wanted to say that the biggest issue wasn’t indifference; that the Republicans represent a much bigger…

The way to get people to vote is to offer them candidates who actually give people hope that politics could make things better for them—which is what Obama did for many people of my generation (how wrong we were).

Here’s the contradiction: yesterday, she wrote an article that excoriated Obama for doing absolutely nothing while in office to inspire people of her generation. Today, she wrote an article lamenting that some states still haven’t expanded Medicaid—something that wouldn’t even be an option without the Affordable Care…

Relax—this whole thing is going to be optional. Regular FICO scores will still exist and will function as they always have. If you explicitly give them permission to do so, they’ll be able to look at your bank accounts and generate an UltraFICO score. Whether anyone actually looks at the UltraFICO will be up to the…

Are we just gonna forget about this song (that he’s credited as the primary songwriter on)? Animals has always stood out to me as one of the rapiest pop hits in recent memory:

I’ve been pricing Grand Cherokees lately, and it’s pretty easy to find two-or-three-year-old Limited models with 50-80,000 miles for $25,000 or less. Now, Jeeps in general don’t have the best reputation for reliability, which is probably the reason for the steep depreciation curve—but I think the real lesson here is…

Kanye saying “motherfucker” in the Oval Office and Clinton’s conduct in the same room, apparently.

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I use a 2FA app (Google Authenticator) for convenience, but I also have a YubiKey that I’ve added as a primary authentication factor on all of my important accounts. For my email, I have a second YubiKey that I store in a safety deposit box, along with a flash drive containing a backup of my LastPass database that I…

Dallas might not be “hip”, exactly, but it is a fucking MECCA for the moneyed white country-club set. Well, not Dallas, actually, but its northern suburbs. You won’t find a greater concentration of rich suburbanites ensconced in brand-new McMansions anywhere in the country. Now, chasing-cool? That’s why they moved to…

I think when a lot of people imagine a second American civil war, they think it will look like the first one—a glorious struggle with a clearly defined moral objective, obviously superior forces on the side of justice, battles between regular armies in the southern backwoods somewhere—not in our backyard... etc, etc.…

I said it before, and I’ll say it again—I am not doing the “both sides” thing. There is no moral comparison to be made between the two sides, and only one has a history of regularly murdering their opponents. But if you think that my concern for a civil war is just hysteria, then you’re a fool. Civil wars happen when…