You make a valid point for most brokerage services, but this is why I’m so in love with Charles Schwab’s banking products right now. If you open an Investor Checking account with them, you can transfer money instantly from any of your Schwab retirement accounts. They even let you do instant distributions on a…

She used to be a representative from a swing district, and during that time, she took some conservative positions in order to retain her seat. Since becoming a senator nearly eight years ago, she has done a pretty solid job of voting progressive and backing progressive causes. But yeah, because she did what she needed…

“So, where are all the boaters your age?” asked a 60-something-year-old, at a patio bar on Gabriola Island in British Columbia. “When I was your age, we all had boats and had great big raft-ups out on the water.”

Maybe your greying happened at an earlier date, but be advised that everyone was greyed a week or so ago in some kind of misguided attempt to “reset” the commentariat. Most of us still haven’t regained our stars, and given my propensity to criticize some of their most absurd posts and behaviors in the past, I doubt I…

I... I think Katherine is mad because Ocasio-Cortez (who is her queen) thanked Kirsten Gillibrand (who is a CENTRIST!!!1!!1!!!) for her statement, which was actually correct, but also bad and wrong because Gillibrand is a bad wrong person who is bad. Or something?

He didn’t drop out of the 2015 race because of an affair... he dropped out because he committed a serious gaffe by basically admitting that their Benghazi select committee was a bunch of political-theater horseshit designed to hurt Hillary Clinton:

Gee, it’s almost as if the scientific consensus evolves over time as new evidence is discovered!

I mean, yeah, he did what he was expected to do by his base... but he should have been smart enough to realize that those moves would ultimately prove to be extremely short-sighted. The pendulum is going to swing back in the other direction at some point (probably in 2020, by the looks of things), and when it does,…

The policy at issue results in the invalidation of a voter’s registration if the information they provide doesn’t precisely match information in other government databases—databases that could themselves be wrong. As an example, if your address on your registration is “1234 Anystreet APT B”, and some other database…

To be clear: I’m ultimately for such a liquidation, although any plan to do so would need to include some kind of serious aid package for all the regular people who currently work in the insurance agency. But I don’t think it’s very likely to happen that way, and I don’t think it’s exactly fair to characterize…

Medicare Extra, at least as far as I can tell, is only “not radical” insofar as it does not outlaw private medical insurance outright. That’s similar to many systems around the world, including the Canadian one, where private insurance still exists for those who can afford it. I think something like that is far more…

Unlike most state and local public defenders, federal public defenders are well-funded and actually good at their jobs. He’ll be more than adequately represented.

I had that jacket, and I found it to be rather thin and not particularly wind-resistant. As the name suggests, the down is only 650 fill power (definitely on the low end) and there isn’t all that much of it in absolute terms. It’s fine as a layering piece combined with a fleece and maybe a shell, but it’s not…

I had that jacket, and I found it to be rather thin and not particularly wind-resistant. As the name suggests, the…

I really don’t understand why people trot out this justification so often. Yes, a black student probably would have had his life ruined over such an incident. That doesn’t make it right. We should be pushing for minorities to be punished less, not for white kids to be punished more to balance the scales.

People are proposing that because it’s the only option we have to rebalance the court without passing a constitutional amendment, which is a near impossibility in today’s political climate. Say we manage to capture all three branches again, and FINALLY pass some of our highest priorities—true universal healthcare,…

Well, damn. That is... exceedingly lame. I sort of lucked into my star because I was one of the first commenters when Splinter was launched. I’m not sure if I’ll ever be able to pick one up again.

Kinja’d

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...