Oh I agree it can’t just be yanked away suddenly. Which is really the problem with “we’re gonna do dramatic tax reform and make it super simple!” on a larger scale. Everyone who talks about “eliminating loopholes” either wants to ignore, or has no fucking clue, that those loopholes are (a) embodiments of policy (some…

Yes of course. Cf. U.S. Constitution, Amendment XIV.

Here is a quote from the LHSAA handbook:

Ah. Yeah that’s a dumb take. Few things give me more joy than the three or so times a year that I manage to get my garage tidy.

Adidas was the first major sports apparel company to get tied up in this mess

Your reliance on the deduction has been priced into your home. Its impact on homeowners themselves is basically zero; what it really does is inflate home prices so that agents get higher commissions and banks get to collect more interest because they’re issuing larger loans. So the deduction functions as a subsidy for…

Even if you’re right, it would take eight of those tens of millions to get to 1% of the population. Numbers aside, not eating until the evening every goddamn day, and exerting yourself as hard as a champion gymnast does, is objectively strange as fuck.

I don’t think “Golazo” is Romanian for dong, but just to be safe I am not watching this

I still don’t see anyone signing Kaepernick, you know?

If I ever become a big enough asshole that I call an $80,000 car with doors that open for me so I don’t have to deign to touch its exterior my “pride and joy,” and then this happens, please laugh at me.

To paraphrase The Best Tweet Ever, “y’all, I apologize - I got so excited to do jingoism that I slipped up and did a dang racism!”

“Excessive” amounts of gunfire aren’t people shooting at deer; they’re people shootin’ at cans, rocks, trees, signs, or whatever because they like shootin’.

This comment started as a list of suggestions from which to pick and choose but I realized that there’s really one answer, and it is: SIGN COLIN KAEPERNICK.

40 years from now when white people are forced to pay an “equal opportunity” tax just to have an account on InstaTwitBook, little Cole Younger Decker (all grownsed up now, of course) is gonna be so proud of the stance his momma took ...

Yup, it’s not your day all right

The going to the ground rule is a good rule and it is as it should be that this is not a catch.

oh my god I bet you got so many high-fives in the lifehacker ping-pong-and-craft-beer room after posting this

You’re welcome, glad you found it worthwhile. I didn’t necessarily mean to have ego on display at an earlier point in the discussion but if you saw it that way I won’t argue.

These are all great, but for my money it’s hard to beat the simple genius of removing the seams from the top of baseball Austin Jackson

I guarantee you an intern put that line in the story copy, tried but failed to suppress a grin, and crossed his fingers hoping it wouldn’t get edited out