I grew up in a fairly liberal town, with conservative parents. 9/11 happened when I was in the 8th grade and a lot of my friends became politically active in high school, volunteering on campaigns (grew up in NH so plenty of opportunities for those) and protesting the Iraq war. When I was younger, I went with what my…

You can, and should, do this. Unfortunately, Vox prefers to grossly oversimplify with its silly graphics.

It’s not false. It may be somewhat misleading (although not if you read the Q&A where they explain the methodology).

The calculator is including the increase on payroll taxes paid by employers, which according to conventional wisdom is passed along to employees with stagnant wages and higher costs of goods. But this happens gradually, and it’s not a 1:1 correlation. They do explain this in the Q&A article, but it’s disingenuous of…

I get why they did it. Questlove was pretty honest about it. They’d been touring relentlessly for a decade + and weren’t growing in terms of popularity, so it was still a case of a bunch of guys packed onto a bus driving across the country all the time. They were getting older, many had families and the whole…

Out of all the white dudes on late night TV, Fallon is perhaps the most undeserving of The Roots.

I think I get what you mean. It’s not unthinkable that comedy on television might have turned out very differently without the Larry Sanders Show. So much of that show’s influence is felt, like the single-cam aesthetic (although it was not technically single cam during the TV show scenes OR the backstage scenes, it…

“I don’t think it hyperbole to say, even in ‘the golden age of television,’ if that show were introduced to the world today, it would be one of the 5 best shows on TV, at least at present, perhaps of the past decade.”

I have a friend who worked on American Hustle and you wouldn’t believe the stories he has about David O. Russell. There’s the standard issue asshole stuff but also just crazy behavior, like firing random crew members on the spot because they weren’t smiling when he walked by them.

I feel like New York City was almost a character in that movie.

Putting aside the super charged imagery, which I happened to really appreciate, I am continually blown away by his live performances and his band. He’s an incredibly precise and energetic presence. You can tell he’s very much aware of every instrumental nuance too, and the band throws in a lot. It’s everything I look…

“ He says we need to turn America into the biggest (width-wise) skyscraper in the world.”

i really love this, a whole lot.

best part

If you see him again, ask him about the time he turned Randal Terry gay.

It’s so disingenuous though. Bernie has some power now and is trying to use it to his advantage - same as Clinton did early in the race.

I mean, the whole premise is just listing some of those ridiculous sex acts you told your friends about in middle school. It’s tough to say she really “stole” that. It’s likely she heard of the Darth Vader from Patrice himself, just like my friend Dan told me what a Houdini was at the lunch table in 6th grade ...

The “pays ... for sex” joke is probably parallel thinking; as others have mentioned that’s an incredibly well-worn premise done in the most straightforward way. Or, she saw Wendy do it decades ago, internalized it, and thought she came up with it.

I’ve lived in NH all my life. Fuck snow tires. Buncha bougie shit you don’t need. Just don’t drive like an idiot.

However, while it seems to be the first the public has heard of this, it s entirely possible that this wasn’t the first time there has been a physical altercation or there has been an escalation of behaviors.