I’m not sure that is what happened. I think Bannon’s move was intentional and intended him to sound in control and insightful. His brilliant statement on Korea is as sophisticated as literally any person who has read a newspaper in the last forty years. It is terrifying that such a shallow man had amassed so much…

He knows Lindsey Graham is still a senator, right? There are other elections than president.

Fallon’s statement was not as good as Meyers, Fallon lacks the intellectual heft that Meyers and his writing staff have in spades. That said, I thought Fallon’s statement was powerful in its own way. He is an apolitical man who really would rather break raw eggs on Channing Tatum’s head than talk about fundamental…

Just to throw some fuel on the fire—I flew to Guam multiple times, and the expanse of ocean between Hawaii and Guam is huge. Twenty minutes out from Honolulu, and you don’t see land again until Guam, just very occasional container ships. And a the sea is terrifying book recommendation: In the heart of the sea: the…

So, I don’t really have a problem with her being charged with something—she destroyed public property in protest and she knew it was illegal, that was part of the protest. Some things are worth getting arrested (personally I don’t think this was, I think this moment call for protests of horrible people alive today,…

This post made me think of the powerful, hopeful, and clear eyed view of racism and violence that president Obama delivered in the eulegy for Reverend Pinckney, who was murdered by a white nationalist in the Charleston shooting. I’m posting it in part because it provides such a contrast to what passes for leadership…

Oh wow! I had forgotten Alan Keyes existed!

I don’t know about the rest, but raising a boat from these depths is not a big deal at all. I think I read above that it was in 7 m waters, that is not even as deep as your typical diving well. People sink boats that are completely recoverable far more than seems likely, it just takes some effort to float them.

I found that story really offputting. I usually really like Rachel Martin, but she was treating it like a film rather than what it is—the believed death of a person. It just seemed so lurid, not at all NPR-like to me.

I’ve been to sea, in a 67 m research vessel. The open ocean at night with a full moon is astonishingly beautiful and so fucking scary. I remember the moment when I realized that if I fell overboard it was entirely possible no one would notice for at least a few minutes, perhaps a few hours, and by then my ship would…

It is really unsettling, isn’t it? I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a daily stormer article before, but it is even more vile than I expected. It also really clearly states their position: our society is created by and for white men, anyone else is just living in it and should do what we say and shut the fuck up.

Go Daddy is no angel, they put up with no end of hateful, harassing content. Interesting to see what they finally decide is too far for them.

I have political beliefs that run counter to my employer. I could get on a podcast and espouse those beliefs in public and and my employer could conclude that I am using my position to advance an agenda and fire me. I make a conscious choice to express my opinion via my vote, my donations, and my private…

Yes. After I wrote this I started thinking about depression and degrees, and how annoying it is when someone compares the mild blues with major depression. It was totally not the intent of what I wrote. These are the things I know I need to do all the time to stave off a general level of depression, there are times…

I heard a radio story about happiness and purpose at work. The researchers premise was that people who are happiest at work do not view their job as the assigned tasks, they look for the deeper meaning (e.g. They interviewed hospital maintenance staff, some of whom viewed their job in the light of providing a…

I’m right there with you—I get stressed, I get sad, I stop doing all the things (for me it is housekeeping, exercising, and eating a reasonable diet) that I have to do to maintain an even keel. Then I stop sleeping, I stop wanting to leave the house, and I can’t stop crying for days at a time.

Ron Johnson’s position is baffling to me. He seemed to be picking objections from the left and right side of the argument and demanding changes unrelated to those objections. I will never understand how this lightweight defeated Russ Feingold twice.

I keep think they are going to run out of room on the right, as we are discussing truly awful ideas now, like not only evil and wrong, but just dumb. Abbott’s major stance against tree ordinances? Give me a break. Lower taxes? Our taxes are already too low. This bathroom bill nonsense is at least stalled out (thank…

Lohan seems so tragic to me. She was a very talented young actor, and she is still young (the closer to forty I get, the more I realize how young 30 is). I hope she finds a second act, I don’t know what it would be though. Part of me wishes she would change her hair, go to school, and become the best damn real estate…

Oh man, that makes me so mad. I was amazed at how her “reclaiming my time” stayed at the same pitch and volume the entire time, I wouldn’t have managed to be so stony. An appropriate headline would be “treasury secretary refuses to answer questions about Trump’s financial ties to Russia”.