People need to take the long view here. This seat was lost when Trump was elected, and we’re almost certainly not getting it back.

a Fox News poll released this week showed that 50 percent of the public opposes his confirmation, while 40 percent support it.

I’ve got this instead of the text

ideals long espoused by conservatives: free minds, free markets and free people.

It doesn’t even matter what the president says any more. He’s going to lose what little is left of his mind when someone reads this NYT editorial to him.

I like how the guy who’s written unbiased books on several presidents and even Dan Quayle is a horrible liar while the guy whose lies have been revealed at every fucking corner is supposed to be some bastion of honesty.

You done messed up, KK-Ron!

I’ll honestly never get over Hartman’s death. He’s one of the most talented comedians who ever lived and whenever I think of all the great laughs he wasn’t able to give us over the past 20 years, it’s saddening.

For anyone who wasn’t around for the debut of the Phantom Menace trailer, I don’t think there is anyway to truly describe how ridiculously excited everyone was. Before YouTube and the like, people were emailing it around at work and school, burning it on to CD-R to pass it around and/or watch at home. I mean, dude, we…

The crux of the disdain for well done steak is that it fucks up the method being used to cook the other steaks. (Sous-vide to blue-rare, then grill over high heat to desired doneness). To make well-done steak that isn’t dry and tough, you need to cook it low and slow and that is completely different from all the other…

Anders:

The Pacific Time Zone is a far superior location for sports fans thus it is actually the Land of the Light. Checkmate.

My Hybrid Fusion will ding like crazy if you open the door and the car is still on. If you get out and close the door with it still running it’ll honk at you to make sure you know you forgot to do something. Which can be annoying if say, I’m getting the mail and the door closes or I run into a store while someone is…

My first thought was Ford faked his death. I’m surprised more people don’t think so.  

Hey, I’m from Buenos Aires, and I say KILL EM ALL!

It’s taking the scenic route to Buenos Aires.

I’ve read that book, it’s pretty good! His story reminds me of New Yorker writer Maria Konnikova, who, while writing a book about poker, gained enough skill at the game to put the book on hold and play poker full-time. 

“The rest of the briefing, as is almost always the case, was notable only for Sanders’ preternatural ability to move her lips without making a single scrap of news or reallyanswering a single question.”

Only good brains with CTE can stop bad brains with CTE.

Uh, ok, I’m not sure how this makes TurboTax (Intuit) evil, exactly. People have many options to file their taxes, including doing it by themselves. You can easily file your federal taxes with TurboTax and other tax prep services for free. And even if you do pay for TurboTax (I do, because my taxes are kinda…