Yeah, the ART. As you’ve probably noticed, there are never any actual buses in those lanes. That’s because the new mayor has paused the whole program while he litigates with BYD, the company that manufactured the electric buses for the system, to try and return all of them. Apparently there were issues with battery…

Yeah, it’s easy to rail against Uber when you live in a city with an extensive (albeit decaying) subway system. The public transit options where I live (northern NM) are pretty weak. We have a solitary low-speed diesel heavy rail commuter line, which only does 7 full-service runs between Albuquerque and Santa Fe a day…

Have you considered that this might be a matter of timing? The American public has the attention span of a gnat and the memory of a goldfish. No matter what heinous revelations might be lurking in those returns, it will take, at MOST, a solid month for most people to forget the release ever happened—particularly with…

I mean, virtually every answer he’s given to any question he’s been asked has been detailed, thoughtful and backed up by concrete policy ideas. I don’t think it’s fair to use the one time he said he didn’t have all the answers as your pull quote, because unlike Beto, Pete is pretty much the opposite of an empty suit.…

You’re exactly right. Also: it will actually be worse for Trump in the end if we can remove him from office via an election, rather than impeachment. Despite his attempts to convince the world otherwise, he probably doesn’t have the ability to pardon himself. If (in some fantasy universe) he were to be impeached and…

There is almost nothing that would excite and energize the Republican base more than an impeachment fight. There is also virtually no chance that such an impeachment would end in removal when the Democrats don’t even have a majority in the Senate, let alone the 67 votes they would need to convict—particularly when a…

Lol, no—those are the statistics for the whole state. Gallup probably has it even worse, considering that it’s located in one of the poorest counties in the entire country. I live in Santa Fe, which isn’t quite as destitute but still has really terrible public schools. 

I managed to avoid student loans by dropping out after community college, which I did with FAFSA aid. I was set to go to a (very cheap, relatively speaking) state school, and I even moved five hours away and got an off-campus student apartment there in furtherance of those plans. But even with cheap housing at a cheap…

See, though... the problem is that by the time the old voters get old enough to actually die, the young voters have themselves become old. And when the young voters get old, they vote like old people! It’s:

OR: you could buy a Google Home, which has the ability to distinguish between different users based on their voices. You know, the feature that’s been around for over a year on the Home but that the Echo somehow still doesn’t support?

I’ve always been of the opinion that we could probably survive extreme climate change, albeit in a severely degraded state. As far as the Fermi paradox goes, the only important thing is the loss of technological prowess. We can’t see any aliens right now, but we wouldn’t expect to see them if they didn’t have visible…

Aaaaaannnd... this is how we commit suicide as a species. None of the major elements of the left coalition will be able to agree on what to do about climate change (at least, not nearly fast enough), because any potential solution will necessarily involve massive disruption and loss for many members of those groups.…

Obama was a young black man from a middle-class background when he got into Columbia. He wasn’t wealthy or well-connected when he first attended Harvard a few years later, either. Trump, on the other hand, was the lily-white scion of a fabulously rich and extremely well-connected family who were already renowned in…

I live in New Mexico, and this shit is making my blood boil. The state laws in question are invariably about 10% of what’s needed to get our gun problem under control—and yet, you still see huge numbers of people throwing histrionic shitfits over them without bothering to educate themselves about what’s even in the…

Yes, along with naming one’s baby things like “Ethel”, “Gertrude”, and “Horatio”. It turns out that pretending to be old is now hip! Who knew?

The Sheriff of Martin County (whose office led the investigation) was on NPR yesterday talking about the case. Here’s a quote from him in the interview:

I think Silk’s Oat Yeah! is pretty good, but in fairness I haven’t really tried any other brands yet. I don’t know if they even sell Oatly where I live, because I haven’t seen it anywhere.

My colleague Rich Juzwiak once said that’s because it’s full of sugar, but I’d rather put a splash of something sweet in my coffee than risk it with whole milk.

Yep, that... does sound very Fox News-y. Before the last few months, there wasn’t extensive reporting out there about her treatment of her staff. A few blind items about her being a “tough boss” are not equivalent to the extensive, detailed allegations that have been brought to light recently. And yeah, if you’re some…

So... your argument is that because you’ve had terrible bosses, other people should too?