Man, Nolan... sometimes I read your pieces and they infuriate me becuase they seem myopically hopeful about the actual power of the American worker and their unions... (full disclosure: I don’t read them all...)

This has been my worry since I first saw this story in the Times. It may not be her because now the press know her name and face, but everyone she knows and loves that has a tiny blemish is going to be investigated, arrested, deported, etc. now.

See, the problem with that is, those most prepared for an Article V showdown, be it constitutional convention or whatever, are ALEC and those institutions and donors most closely tied to them... The Kochs, The Federalist Society, the US Chamber of Commerce, The NRA, etc...

Everything I’ve read about this bill from both sides for months now makes it sound like the majority of the shittier of the two criminal justice reform bill options that had been presented to congress made it through. This effects (I don’t remember the exact number, I’ve been reading about both bills for a while now…

This is how I look at most of the Republican bullshit around elections since at least 2000 (and probably before that, Clinton was pretty damn close to the rightward edge of moderate so it’s hard to really count his administration as a change):

He’s a national treasure.

This is GOLD. I’m kinda old and not very social media-y but I should have found this before now. thank you.

Coulda sworn Carlos Martinez was St. Louis’ ace? MLB agrees with me, they have him listed at the top of their depth chart. Dude had an injury-plagued year, but he’s still their best pitcher.

I’d imagine, just like when I buy a 2lb. block of Tillamook cheese from the dairy case then bring it over to the deli counter in my grocery store to get it sliced, (which is awesome, because they usually charge you $2-4 more to buy the same type and amount of pre-packaged, pre-sliced cheese from the same brand in the…

“Yes, pasta on pizza. Since pizza already has a starchy element with the crust, not sure what the purpose is here”

Oh, that poor Manafort! Keeping him in solitary!

Agreed. That’s where I spend most of my time focusing and commenting. I read pretty much everything I can get my hands on about it, and a lot of this “Tucker Carlson is a turd” writing just doesn’t really interest me that much. Why? because WE ALL KNOW TUCKER CARLSON IS A TURD. THIS IS NOT NEWS.

Amp removed l-theanine a couple years back (I think.) This puts it back in. It’s shown to increase alpha brainwave activity, that produces a calm, focused state, in some studies. It also is said to slightly reduce blood pressure, which should help when ingesting a massive jolt of caffeine.

The same kind of system was quite popoular in the Benelux area in Europe in the late 80's, early 90's, not sure if it still is.

have you actually seen the film, or is this your new impression based on this review?

That’s... ummm... creepy as hell.

Cheese is good. Beer is good. They kicked out the assholes.

star for you.

We tend to be exposed to the bad-assed top-tier of Jedi in the films, so maybe we’ve got high expectations, but yeah, this seems kinda ridiculous.

This looks like a baseball “brawl” where everyone just makes noise and semi-shoves each other... I’m way too disinterested and lazy to actually look into the criteria that they used to create both sides, but it looks like they very significantly undercut the amount of destruction I imagine a Jedi is capable of. None…