I understand how you would tax the wealth of someone who owns stock in public companies (the share price is there for everyone to see, although there’s potentially the issue of a stock being overvalued and then losing half of its value right after you’ve been taxed on the higher value—it’s just a little messy), but…

Welcome to politics. So far these bills seem to be a way for Senators to give themselves some cover and make it look like they’re doing something. 

Well, I guess ol’ Punxsutawney Wilbur came out of his hole and saw his shadow, so it looks like we’re going to have 6 more weeks of shutdown.

California also pays a lot in federal income taxes (on top of its high state income taxes, which are not deductible) and produces a large amount of the food for the whole country. I’d say they deserve that FEMA money because a lot of it is their money anyway, as well as because we need to protect many of its…

I guess this kinda makes sense—probably better to lease it out rather than selling it if they go that route—although there may be reasons that justify their continuing to remain there (if they own the building, it may be very inexpensive for them to exist there, compared with the cost of leasing space, and they can…

This was like a bad college presentation project that was hastily thrown together the night before, and where the presenter had not rehearsed at all. The speech didn’t even arrive at any real conclusion, it just listed incidents where immigrants have committed crimes (shorter than the list of crimes that have been…

The substance of AOCs speech/appearance on Maddow was good, although the delivery was a bit jumbled and all over the place. She’s young and it’s her first week on the job, but just saying. She brought up a lot of great points that kinda got lost. I’m sure she’ll do better in the future and it really feels like she…

What did we expect, with a depressed real estate sector in 2008, billions of dollars in federal money and near-zero interest rates (and really no other rules)? Of course firms with access to billions were going to buy what they could, and of course they were going to charge as much as they could. We let them do…

I feel like Beto would be the perfect person to respond—he’s young, cool, speaks fluent Spanish, and represents a state on the border where the “wall” would be going.  

The NFL has a few options here to solve this problem:

Hard to blame DiBlasio here—no matter what he does, he’s fucked. Come out against the NYPD: we’ve seen how that works out (fine for us, more work for him, no meaningful changes). Don’t come out against the NYPD: we’re seeing how that works out. Besides, all he can really offer is words, or maybe he could get rid of…

Stephen Miller, Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump—there’s a pretty good chance it will be one of them. Everybody else that might be capable of doing the job is probably too smart to understand that it’s a shit job that has a good chance of limiting future career prospects, and it’s hard to see anyone resigning from an…

if there’s a private cause of action, it will have teeth--anytime someone gets fired there will be a lawsuit (and a settlement) 

This is generally a good thing—”on call” scheduling is bad for employees. However, there should be a little balance and flexibility for employers as well. Usually, schedule changes only happen because another employee doesn’t show up or requests to trade shifts because of a last minute need or illness. Or someone…

Picking Barr was probably a smart move—he’s already been confirmed by the Senate to be AG, and worked in the sainted HW Bush and Reagan administrations. There’s probably not much in his record to make Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski question whether to vote for him. It’s all pretty scary—he’s not a right-wing crazy…

George HW Bush was privileged from birth, and he never denied it—unlike our current president who claims to be “self-made”, even though his father gave him hundreds of millions of dollars. His father was a Senator and could easily have gotten him out of serving in WWII, but George HW Bush chose to enlist in the Navy,…

I will say that it doesn’t seem 100% right that a particular union gets to exclusively represent all of the workers in a particular workplace, which often means that one union gets a monopoly sometimes across an entire industry, with no competition from other unions that might prioritize different things in…

This is all a pretty fascinating story, and there’s likely so much that we don’t know. Even if Epstein was worth $200B, the story doesn’t really add up for so many reasons.

Or, maybe because she’s from NYC and also not 80 years old, she knows about these magical stores called Zara and H&M, where clothes actually look more expensive than they are, and more generally, are appropriately sized to a person’s body unlike every male in congress with their boxy, ill fitting Jos A Bank and Brooks…

I mean, maybe getting rid of Ricardel is actually a good thing, regardless of the reason. One less Bolton acolyte in the national security apparatus is always a good thing, although one less Bolton in the national security apparatus would be better...and that mustache too.