At some point we have to stop reacting to his bullshit. John Lewis doesn’t walk the walk? He did in Selma, and on Washington, and I bet he will march with the women next week. Trump’s taunt is laughable. I can’t believe I’m saying this about the President of the United States, but why even listen to this type of…

Freakonomics did an episode called “the perfect crime”. It was about the lax laws in NYC for people who hit pedestrians. They make a compelling case that both the physical design of the streets and the mindset towards pedestrians dramatically effect the number of car on person deaths every year.

I’ve started calling my senators too, but they are Cruz and Cornyn. I’m not sure it does anything, but I hope that thousands of others are calling as well and are enough to sway those two jackassses.

Yep. Everybody time I venture into the comments on the Houston Chronicle it make sure me despair for this city.

It’s Evanston, IL.

What car repair was he doing that she thought he was stealing it? Most repairs I can think of you would have to use a ton of imagination to turn it into braking in. I’m always curious with these cases, I wonder how many times she has Calle down the cops in the past to report suspicious activity?

We’ll be ok. I feel Pollyannaish for saying this, but I believe in America and Americans. We all need to take a collective deep breath and remember that we have gone through very hard times before, and made it through. I remember after 9/11, I lived in LA and there F-18's flying over my house every two hours for about…

I think it will be interesting to see the republicans fall into a war between the .1% (corporate types) and the .001% (just unbelievably crazy rich people). Conventional business people do not like volatility, and they for damn sure don’t like protectionist trade policy. The uber wealthy have much weirder and stronger…

It is a strange fixation, considering the very real health and economic benefits the ACA brings. One I never hear is entrepreneurship. If you can buy health insurance at a not insane rate, that provides actual coverage, you can start your own business pretty easily. Under our old system you had to be single, healthy,…

It would be Paul Ryan (by law). Who is getting himself ready, have no doubt.

I agree that Trump won, and I believe that the ballots were fairly counted. He does deserve a peaceful power transition. You raise a good point that there is peril in being willing to throw out election results because you don’t like the outcome. I do think that Trump can still be considered illegitimate as a…

I agree. I bet if you look back the problems started cropping up when they went from boutique to mainstream. It is just so much harder to remain QA/QC at scale if you don’t have good procedures in place. mistakes are easy to miss when you’re running flats out.

I think the plan would be to allow imports from Canada to force US list prices down. In reality, I think it is possible that some drug makers would abandon the Canadian market altogether rather than lower their US prices.

Warren is an interesting senator in her very clear goals. She is fighting for reform in lending regulation, housing markets, and taxes to improve financial stability for Americans. I think this is a great cause, and I have no doubt she could expand to other topics if she so desired, but I think she really may be where…

I think being a germaphobe might make it hotter, especially if he was just watching. It would make it far more degrading in his eyes. I cant believe I am speculating about sexual motivations of a seventy plus year old the president elect.

I get it too. For me it was grad school on a stipend that was low enough to qualify for some forms of public assistance. But I had health insurance, I had a college degree, and most importantly I had family who could bail me out if something really bad happened. I was pretty lucky, and I never needed a huge amount of…

Queen Latifah is crazy beautiful.

“Trump’s own official ball, apparently themed with a “soft sensuality,” will feature the dulcet tones of an ‘80s cover band called The Reagan Years.”

Slate has not yet published the tine portion of the story, but there writeup included “leaking” and “that the piss out of”. Someone in their newsroom is having a giggly evening.

Yep. Meyers certainly does lack the gravitas of Tucker Carlson.