“Prince Philip’s sister was literally married to a Nazi. Queen Elizabeth’s disgraced uncle and his wife were Nazi sympathizers.”

(I know you’re not serious, but...) It would be more poignant if gerrymandering and voter suppression weren’t so rampant.

[Now there’s audio of the conversation,] if you’re the sort of person who would enjoy listening to Trump [make an ass out of himself]

There is a disgusting pile of dog crap on the sidewalk on the way home from the grocery store—every week we pass it and I go oh, right, gross, that pile of dog crap.

Reminder, there was also a failed coup plot at the Justice Department to try to provide ground to the Georgia state legislature to overturn the election results:

Articles like this remind me what a blessed state we are in to not be assaulted by his face, voice, and tweets, daily. I’m enjoying the reprieve, mightily.

Criminal charges against said criminal, the orange one, would be so, so sweet. White collar criminal defense attorneys start at a thousand dollars an hour. The cost of defending against criminal charges such as RICO takes about two or three days to sink in, and once it does, it’s hard not to think about anything…

I’d really like her and her ilk to have to go to a barber for their next surgical appointment.

I’m waiting for Clucker Snarlson to take up this guy’s case as a “beacon of free speech” in a day or three.

Tufte is a genius. His work has helped me immensely in my career. 

They are to folk music what Coldplay are to rock. Which makes them much, much worse than Coldplay, because at least those guys don’t pretend to be the authentic earthy rural types.

“It was a slip of the tongue that was not at all what I intended to say, nor who I am in my heart,”

“I don’t think that having a photograph with someone means you agree with everything they say. So I don’t, really. Because then I wouldn’t be able to have a photograph of anyone at risk of trying to offend anyone so I think I don’t see the harm in engaging in conversation.”

God, I hate this type of response. Getting…

I'm going to make a very brave and controversial statement. Mumford & Sons is awful. Like, easily one of the worst bands I've ever heard in my life 

Mumford & Sons’ banjoist Winston Marshall

Should have left off the probably. They are the ones with access to the DMV databases in their vehicles when they stop people; of course they used it to look up the plates of every car in the area to find out who the protesters are.

Essential reading on the Challenger disaster is in Edward Tufte’s book where he highlights how bad charts played a supporting role. I think of this one quite often.. and imagine some higher-up at Morton Thiokol waving charts like this at Mr. McDonald and his team — I mean, what is this supposed to mean? It’s horrible.

On a MUCH smaller scale, i understand this man on a deep level.

I recently watched the documentary about this investigation and was so impressed, because as an engineering student in the 80s, we all riveted by this failure. I didn’t the background until watching the doc.