Whatever happened to Robert Reich? He’s the last guy I remember reading and enjoying. Krugman’s all right but too often it reads like econ-lite Gladwell-ian explaner bullshit.

I mean maybe, but I subscribe to the NYT and WaPo and I can’t remember the last time I read a useful opinion piece, or had anyone bring up an opinion piece in conversation, even in our newly politicized environment. And a mea culpa, I kind of misread HamNo’s argument, such as it was.

He didn’t really lump columnists with reporters but the piece kind of reads that way, mostly because HamNo didn’t really argue WHY opinion pieces are stale nonsense and just spent space calling them names.

Honestly who the fuck cares what opinion writers think? You’re lumping a bunch of calcified hacks in with actual reporters, who are doing incredible and vital work. The NYT has flaws, obviously, but slandering their reporters with the work of their opinion journalists isn’t fair to the people doing actual work.

I have Northern European ancestry and I live in the Pacific Northwest so a daily Vitamin D pill is necessary. I went to the doctor a few years ago complaining of general depression and low energy, thinking I was either depressed or maybe anemic, and it turned out I was seriously deficient in Vitamin D and had to get…

Is there a difference between S60 and V70 seats? I drive a V70R and holy shit are those seats the most comfortable things I’ve ever put cheek to. Not only are they incredibly comfortable but they’re deeply bolstered so you feel cocooned in that buttery leather. I can’t imagine that you could improve upon the V70 seats…

My response was worded imprecisely. I was attempting to draw a distinction between small farmers, who predominately live on the coasts and grow non commodity crops, and big agribusiness, which is the vast majority of midwestern farming. The point being that “midwesterners are farmers” is a reductive and outdated view…

Yes, regulatory capture is used by monopolies to entrench their positions once the monopoly is in place. The idea that “excessive regulation” keeps people from starting businesses is fucking nonsense. I own a small business, and a friend of mine owns two, all 3 are in the food industry, one of the MOST heavily…

You understand that most of the food Americans actually EAT is grown on the coasts, right? Midwestern “farming” is largely commodity crops and ranching.

This is just one of the reasons PDX is the world’s greatest airport. Local pricing laws mean the Rogue beer you’re drinking while you wait for your flight or the book you buy at Powell’s will be roughly the same price you’d pay anywhere else.

Neither Seattle or Portland will spend a dime of public money on stadiums anytime soon. Maybe Boise wants a hockey team?

Listen pal, I don’t need some blotto kookaburra-humper telling me my business. I’m going to come down there with my biggest MAGA hat possible and tell you whats what and you’re gonna like it.

Festus will never play a minute for the Blazers. Olshey is ride or die with CJ and Lillard, and he’s got a kaiju sized boner for Plumlee, so we’re looking at upgrades at the 3 and 4. The 4 is probably the weakest position on this team (RIP Ed Davis), so any improvement that isn’t in the draft is probably Olshey…

I have yet to see a single leftist, progressive, or even goddamn Democrat who was like “boy, what a thoughtful and measured critique of American mis-deeds in the realm of foreign policy.”

he was 100% sundowning.

I’m not the first to put this theory forwad, but my Aussie friend told me the consensus in Australia is that Trump wasn’t paying attention for the briefing prior to his call with Turnbull, so when an aide handed him the phone and said, “here’s PM Turnbull of the Australian Liberal Party” Trump just assumed Turnbull…

I haven’t seen anyone anywhere saying we should go to war with Russia. I have Finnish friends who view some sort of guerilla war with Russia as a near inevitability, and certainly we should work with our NATO allies to help them resist Russian meddling in their internal affairs but if you’ve seen anyone banging the…

The honorable thing to do here is to let your family to starve to death. The Philippines economy is garbage, it’s horribly overpopulated, and one of the most corrupt countries in the world. Saying “maybe don’t sell drugs” to a filipino is like saying “maybe don’t work at McDonalds” to a poor person here. There aren’t…

your hands shake less when they are formed into a fist.

Yes, they’ll continue to grow bolder. But they’re sticking their heads out, which means you can punch them in the face. You need to ask yourself, are you ok punching a nazi in the face? You’d better be.