Absolute genius writer. Sadly it looks like we’re far more interested in clinging to our primitive traits like tribalism and superstition. I suspect there will have to be a prolonged and grim interval of conflict before we can even visualize, let alone achieve, anything resembling The Culture.

New Yorkers rank very near the bottom of the list of people whose opinions I give a shit about, ranking above only... well, you.

I didn’t say I didn’t like it here. I’m just a realist, capable of objective observation. Now go on and dismiss this comment too.

You’re absolutely right, because those are the only people the deal was ever intended to benefit. Amazon’s entire business model is utterly dependent on replacing human employees with automation, sooner rather than later. The idea that there are ever going to be 25,000 jobs ( except maybe for the people who take care…

The trolls are thick out here today.

Don’t waste your time with the troll. He dismisses you with one hand and fondles himself with the other.

The dismiss button is for gutless cowards and the intellectually disarmed. Think about that while you’re burning.

Well, we’re very pro-life, so long as the life isn’t brown or poor.

Ah, yes... the entirely predictable reaction of the ill-informed troll— flailing away with non sequiters, then dismissing any effort at a civil reply because you’re too angry and closed-minded to respond with anything but Breitbart-level talking points. Sorry your life choices have made you so angry, miserable, and…

First off the tax revenue NYC would take in is speculative. There is a long and well-documented history of these corporate giveaways failing to generate anywhere close to the benefits they were proposed to deliver. Second of all the proposed benefits fail to account for the extent to which an already overburdened…

I live in south Louisiana. Down here we still think the Catholic church sex scandal, for which the local parish was ground zero even before Boston, is a liberal conspiracy. The only reason we have DUI laws and the 21+ drinking age is because the Yankee imperialists in Washington were going to take away our highway…

Absolutely agree. Plus I tend to view all big cities as the equivalent of human feedlots, and Amazon as WalMart with a slightly-more-upscale clientele and an Internet connection. I’m also fond of telling the kids to get off my lawn unless they’re coming to deliver my weed.

As an old I am required to view all shoes without strings as trendy gimmicks. Except for my rubber shrimp/barn boots.

You may be right that NYC has set itself up for decline, but bringing in Amazon and giving them $3 billion in tax breaks is hardly likely to reverse that trend.

Every time he speaks it becomes easier to understand how he managed to bankrupt multiple casinos.

Please don’t forget Clarence Thomas when you’re listing idiots.

I think Kate has the best job in the world, except maybe for Keith Richards.

This country needs another professional football league like we need a bigger nuclear arsenal or a few more eighty-year-old billionaire senators.

I remember when my kids were little, and every time they couldn’t get their way by throwing a tantrum or sulking they too thought it was an emergency... I am so proud to discover that they  are presidential material. (One of my kids once threatened to call the abuse hotline because I made him put on headphones to…

Also kudos for ‘low-bucks racist shitgoblins”.