I remember the first time I read about the “Broken Windows” approach, thinking to myself that it seemed like a great idea. It’s been a while, but as I recall, the whole point was that you put efforts into consistently repairing the broken windows (or cleaning graffiti off the train cars, or what have you), not bringing…

Yeah, but you never pay full retail price at Home Goods at least. They probably would have marked it down to at most $65 million.

It’s amazing how many very good players have come through this awful, awful team in the last twenty years.  Just imagine what someone with any amount of competence could have accomplished with them. 

Excited to see an extended profile of an up-and-coming Americana artist on the AV Club - keep this kind of stuff coming!

I like Bryce Harper and all, but given his career, I don’t think anyone should be remotely surprised by his production so far, and it’s not unreasonable to suspect that this is pretty much him as a player.  I still think he’ll make the Phillies better over the next few years, and I’m happy to have him.  But I can’t…

Waiting for the spin-off of the spin-off, where Timothy Olyphant plays Rob Lowe’s character’s brother in 9-1-1: New Orleans.

I was disappointed when I learned on wikipedia just now that Rand McNally was not a single person with the first name Rand (I can only think of one idiot dumb enough to name their kid that), but the last names of the two partners who started the company.  Oh well.

It’s too bad that the concept of shame completely died a few years back.  It would be great if it still existed and could be hung around the necks of these Fox News goobers for the rest of their days to keep them from climbing back into polite society.

The first time I drove cross-country, I stopped at a Wal-Mart in Nevada after realizing I would need an atlas to figure out where the hell I was going to be going (left from California - I guess I had a California map in my car).

But could I also be my own boss and make $$$$$ working from home for just 20 hours a week by buying an MLS expansion franchise?

This dude’s a piece of work. He went to my high school and recently agreed to donate $25 million to the district, which was contingent on naming the high school after him. A lot of money, yes, but it’s a big district in an affluent suburb, so it’s just a fraction of the district’s yearly budget. Anyway, the town got…

thecraftsmanblog.com!

To steal and paraphrase an oft-used line from a blog about home repair and historical restoration I like to read, it’s not good because it’s old, but it’s as old as it is, because it’s good.

We must stop this invasion of illegal monsters who would destroy the country if we don’t seal off our borders!  Also, any that we do catch will be released into the country to own the libs.

Donald Trump didn’t want to take out a full page ad calling to send the Central Park Five to the gas chamber.  But he felt he owed it to them.

Payback for Phillies fans booing Jayson Werth for freaking years after he signed with the Nats.  Which always annoyed the fuck out of me especially, because Werth publicly said he wanted to re-sign with the Phillies, but they never made him an offer.  Anyway, sports fans can be dumb.

You mean that fresh-faced youngster who’s always wearing those fancy suits?  No way.

Can’t wait for the big half-hour CGI fistfight at the end.

There’s a lot of cruise control in his filmography, but he was awesome in Captain Phillips and Bridge of Spies.  I’m also apparently the only person in the world who loves the Coen Bros. version of The Ladykillers, and I think he’s hilarious in it.

Are you kidding, with the hyperinflation that will follow the West Coast sliding into the sea, that will be pretty much peanuts by then.  Besides, our main currency will probably be the Yuan anyway.