I wrote this too briefly. I realized after posting this comment how many of your articles I’ve tucked away on Evernote and Pocket. What I wanted to say was that your refreshingly optimistic, genuinely helpful, “breath of fresh air on an angry internet” voice will be missed.

You will be missed.

This was great. Nice to see the differences and similarities of a pair of professionals that work well together.

My Google-fu has netted me very little in a search for a good beginner’s resistance band workout. Any that you know of that you’d recommend?

Wow. So just because you think the GOP dehumanizes black conservatives, you suddenly get the right to do so? They’re not “fig leaves.” They’re people, men and women, who make a conscious choice to self-identify in a manner that is widely seen as contrary to their interests. Or is racial degradation okay when the…

I organize my bookshelves by Library of Congress call numbers (which works well for my library, which is heavily skewed towards philosophy, literature, and theology). Every book goes into my LibraryThing account, gets its call number, and gets shelved accordingly. I even add my Kindle books and keep them in…

Another possibility is that you don’t know what it means.

Most definitely. That’s something I think should be written in every history book that covers this election.

Fine. But you and I both know you used the phrase to mean, “manipulating the system to gain an unfair advantage.” Or, I’m wrong, and you’re completely fine when your bigoted neighbor says, “The lib’ruls played the system and got the Supreme Court to save Obamacare just like they played the system to pass the law in…

If so, it wasn’t intentional. I know a campaign’s not a commercial business venture, but there are some strong similarities in what they require of the person involved: careful hiring decisions, careful marketing choices, investment, careful spending decisions, etc.

I agree, they are not. Which might partly explain why he was able to successfully convince many businesspersons that historically successful politicians needed to lose in the primaries and then the election.

It’s not “playing the system.” It is operating within the system. If the rules say, “Win the most electoral votes and you win the presidency,” then it’s operating within the system to focus on winning the most electoral votes. It’d be great if that always lined up with the popular vote, but it’s not the first and…

He didn’t fail. He won. I know I’m repeating myself now...

I’m happy to be your buddy, friend.

I’m anything but in favor of a Trump presidency. I vocally advocated against it, I worked to prevent it, and I’m sad it is now what we’re dealing with.

Well, he didn’t fail at winning the election, so we can no longer say that “everything he’s done on his own has been an abject failure.” (Although, if you’re going to quibble and say, “he didn’t do it on his own,” then you have to acknowledge that other people were also involved in his failed business ventures.)

Can you post links to the accounts of people shooting at folks or running them off of the road on account of their bumper stickers? That sounds awful!

Instead of focusing on the relevant argument that voting third party will likely most benefit the candidate you are ideologically opposed to...

Huh. Facebook finally figured out how to both say they offer encrypted messaging and at the same time make it so user-unfriendly that no one will use it.

Well, Google must have noticed my question or something. Got my Nougat OTA about 30 minutes after posting.