A refurbished Wii U with a 1 year warranty is $200 on Nintendo’s website right now or you can spend about $150 for a used one on eBay, so you are saving either a third or a half the price of a switch.

What exactly is this op-ed supposed to accomplish? Thomas Friedman won the Pulitzer Prize three times, which to the best of my knowledge, is three more than the entire Gawker writing staff has won.

Eventually, probably. The administration is not going to defend the Obama interpretations, so the court will have to decide whether current federal law and the 14th amendment allow the school district to prevail. If the court rules in favor of the school district, presumably the ACLU will appeal the case again, at…

It is absurd at this point that Nintendo does not have cloud saves. Even EA does that.

Part of me believes that this administration’s sheer incompetence is a good thing. The bulk of the competent, reasonable appointees in the administration seem to be in the military and intelligence positions, so at least they would be able to push back against any truly ridiculous ideas. Meanwhile, the…

Other than spoilers, I do not really see how this is that big of a deal. There is a Wii U emulator, but I doubt the game is fully playable. Very few people have a Wii U and only a tiny fraction of them have probably hacked it to be able to play a pirated download.

It is the replacement for both the 3DS and the Wii U, so hardly a surprise I think.

Yes, this is how DC works. The political staffers and the lifetime government workers often hang out in the same bars and the same social circles as the reporters who cover DC. You buy a guy a few drinks in a bar and suddenly he is telling you about how awful his boss is. . . Oh, is it okay if I let the public know,…

I think this whole “dead at thirty” is a great example of how statistics is misunderstood and misused.

It seems to be factored in, otherwise Cleveland and Nassau would not be near the top of the list with their low average salaries.

Some journalists are heroes. Most are not. Heroism requires exceptional courage. It does not take much courage to write a nasty story about the US President. However, it does take quite a bit of courage to report from the middle of the Kurdish battle with ISIS or to report critical stories on the government in…

I’m 74" tall and my shoulders are several inches wider than any coach seat I have ever been in. I’m uncomfortable in a plane no matter who is sitting next to me.

I think this is pretty uncalled for. If the shoe were on the other foot and someone like Trump were the Democratic President, I doubt Democrats would be doing any more than McCain is now. It is nice to see a politician with a thimble-full of independence and courage as opposed to most of the party-line Democrats and…

Um. . . . everywhere. The first amendment does not protect you from being disciplined or fired from work in most cases. You have a first-amendment right to call your boss a jackass. The first amendment does not prevent your boss from firing you.

You are falsely conflating illegal activities with criminal activities. Illegal actions are ones that violate the law. It is illegal to jaywalk or slander someone in California and you can be sanctioned in civil court. However, it is not criminal; you cannot go to jail or prison.

Oh yeah, I completely forgot about the part where he attacks the critical media, has Walter Winchel jailed if I recall.

In the Phillip Roth novel, The Plot Against America, which takes place in an alternate history where Lindbergh becomes President, the President becomes compromised by the Nazis and keeps America out of the war and provokes anti-Semitic attacks.

I mean, if it is something that is clearly illegal, like insulting someone because of their gender or race, that might work. On the other hand, if it is something else, it might be protected speech. For instance, in California, political views are protected at work so there is not much HR can do to prevent a…

It is not just about a certain number. It is about a commitment to reduce the arsenal and make the two nuclear superpowers arsenals more accountable to each other. Since at least the Clinton administration there have been officials stationed in place in their counterparts nuclear command center to offer a direct…

The defense spending actually has to be renewed by congress every two years (it cannot be perpetually authorized) because the founders distrusted having a standing, professional army.