This crazy world we live in is starting to turn me into a prepper. Of course, because I’m a city-dwelling liberal, my version of being a prepper is “grab the le Creuset and hide in the basement.”

Rotary phones are another reason the past was terrible. I had a friend with three zeros in his phone number. Emphasis on had.

Underrated Kinja.

No worries, I starred you. I think you’ve basically got it right. Under a capitalist mode of production, more money = more prestige = “better” job. The problem is that people don’t analyze their thinking this way, and thus it’s hard for even the well-meaning ones to see beyond the needs of the moment: mortgage, kids,…

No, that’s true.

There is a serious structural problem here, though, which is that once your career is done in the halls of power (as Mook’s probably is) the only way to make a living is by peddling your connections. You can do that as a lobbyist (of which there are better and worse flavors) or a consultant, or whatever.

Clearly, you’ve never heard of gifsound.

Something something “grassy mound.”

Oh, I don’t deny the perfidy of the Yankees. We have Aroldis Chapman.

Y (GDP) = C (consumption) + I (investment*) + G (government spending) + NX (net exports, or exports minus imports).

Yeah, but he got that 20-win season while tossing 83 MPH junkballs.

Lots of piece of shit people win baseball games.

As a Yankees fan, I can’t express how much joy it brings me to know that the world now recognizes Schilling for the piece of shit he always was.

Your wife wasn’t fooled, Cal.

Wouldn’t it have been quicker to call Mike Allen a bootlicker and have done?

(groans)

One of my favorite parts of reading ancient history is the general “who-the-fuck-are-these-guys” tone taken when some political or military force shows up from beyond the boundaries of the known.

I’ve always wondered if Duncan and the Dos Equis pitchman would love or hate each other. I can see a case for either.

OMFG these comments. People, if you get slapped, don’t cold cock the woman who slapped you. Yes, he may be legally in the right. There are lots of things that are or have been legal but morally and ethically indefensible.

Counterpoint: fuck that guy.