moving the press out of the west wing and into the OEOB also revokes their access to West wing staffers. The pass you get for oeob doesn’t necessarily get you in, and those casual conversations are a major source of news. The press corp is going to have to be unified in their opposition to this, because this is…

I bet it helps that Beck Bennet is thirty years his junior. He looks pretty good shirtless.

Senator Boomer! I like it for Booker!

We’re going to see a ton of these very pained looking shows of support over the next few months. Everyone is trying to figure out how to effectively manage or minimize the damage Trump can do to discretionary programs run by the federal government. I think it isn’t also very hard to turn down a request for a meeting…

Congratulations on both the marriage and potential house! My suggestion is to really set aside time for the process of looking/buying. I went to a bunch of open houses over the course of months before I was ready to buy, and sorted out my wants/hates/emotional reaction to having to write a check for tens of thousands…

I only know how my universities did it, but speakers were usually invited. I think Yiannopolis’ conduct at UW-Milwaukee, where he initiated a harassment campaign against a tranwoman who was a student attending his talk, is a legitimate reason to disqualify him as a speaker. If a bunch of dumbass jerks decide they want…

Good god. I believe that speakers representing all points of view should be invited to universities to speak, but are either of these people original, provocative thinkers? Or are they modern day shock jocks without the self awareness or intellect of a Howard Stern?

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.