Yep, sorry friend. You’re also not allowed to go play in the McDonald’s PlayPlace even if your mother always refused to take you when you were little.

... I live in Austin - the side parties (free parties) for SXSW is a much better location and situation than ACL festival, IMHO. If you want to come here for a lawn-based festival FFF Fest is much better than ACL.

Dave McKenna is a goddamn national treasure.

If he brought them, that’s mallets aforethought.

Also, I’m adding a link to this discussion in the article itself, because I think readers should see a smart criticism of the piece, as well as the informative stuff you linked here. Thanks.

I don’t think I did a good job of making clear why I included that item, and you’re right, I should have left it out. The idea was to grab a smattering of things from across the full spectrum of possible answers to the national security question, from less legit threats to more legit ones, and that was meant to…

Albert, I love 99% of this article. But why’d you have to go and say this:

+1 for parking close to the mall.

Little does the governor know that an all-Texas ALCS is the signal for Jade Helm to begin.

You know, maybe it is just the audio aspect of it. I kind of agree. But I prefer a male voice, with more bass, with xenophobic opinions, who occasionally costs taxpayers millions of dollars in public funding for a failed video game, and doesn’t totally believe in evolution.

The Nazi stuff reminds me of my favorite story of racist war spoils: in the civil war, Minnesota sent one of if not the first (don’t recall my history too well) battalions to go fight. They were pretty good, and ended up capturing the Virginia state house, and taking its racist confederate flag. Fast forward a century…

My daily fantasy consists of both of these companies going away.

Perhaps by the time next week’s Deadcast rolls around, we’ll also have some priceless Whitlock takes on Ta-Nehisi Coates’s MacArthur Genius award.

He blocked me on Twitter after I told him what a nice time I had at his bankruptcy sale at his old home. Sometimes I wonder if I took that too far.