You don’t need more laws to prevent people from buying up scarce housing; you need less laws to stop preventing people who want to build the housing that would no longer be scarce. It’s really not rocket science.

My brother told me I was an asshole, but I maintain that — if you can’t reject the wine — why do they offer to let you taste it in the first place?

A Russian would suffice for these purposes. I’m thinking Kuznetsov against the Leafs, but that would require the Caps to make the third round, so . . .

They have a plan, but part of it involve trading away Taylor Hall and using that cap space on Milan Lucic, so, y’know, it’s a terrible plan.

For much the same reason that requiring women to wear burkas in order to protect themselves from those ravenous menfolk is insulting for putting the onus on the woman to avoid being victimized, with the certainly-not-at-all-intended result of absolving the victimizer of his behavior.

I expressed no opinion on the film itself, as I haven’t seen it. The “turd” being polished is its financial performance this past weekend, which was transparently poor.  

Losing the weekend box by ~$8M to a third-week film, and making only about a third of the production budget in the process, is a disappointing result at best.

I took my kid to a Wizards game two weeks ago and, before the game, I took him to a restaurant nearby to grab dinner. This was a PJ Clarke’s-type joint where you can get basic bar food and it’s, like, 35 percent nicer than what you’d get at a Chili’s but also 50 percent more expensive.

Probably!

Related: don’t assume you’re smarter than your attorney. You might be as a generalist IQ matter, but when it comes to the things you hired your this trained professional to do, he or she knows more than you do.

It’s hyperbole I use to impress upon people the fact that they’ve almost certainly committed a number of felonies in their life, even without necessarily realizing it, because so many are so simple. Taking this particular example, there are only two elements the government must prove to make out a prosecution for…

That’s mostly governed by state law, so it can vary, but the general answer is “not internally.” Enforcement, however, is a different story.

Moreover, the First Amendment to the Constitution predates any such universal assertion of human rights by more than a century—it recognizes a pre-existing natural rights principle that the Government may not infringe upon the freedom of speech, but that same natural rights principle has little to no concern with the…

Most important advice I ever give to anyone is sorely lacking here:

“Stuck” is a good way to describe what happens on metro escalators.

If someone brags to you that they can speak 19 languages, quiz them on the spot

That’s correct—“freestyle” technically refers to an event in which competitors may use any style to swim across the pool.* However, because the front crawl is the fastest and most efficient style, all competitors uniformly use it in freestyle events such that the two terms are generally treated as synonymous.

*Unless…

I’m a bigger fan of Truman’s nutritional regimen.

There were always going to be more shoes to drop. I don’t imagine any institution is going to emerge unscathed when all is said and done.

That new on the job, even if he’d been licensed before getting that gig, he wasn’t doing shit that warranted an all-nighter.