Good. I hope he dies half blind in a prison hospital ward, and I hope all his earnings get claimed through civil litigation so his enabling abettor of a wife has to sell her personal possessions in order to pay the bills.

This is what I don’t get: Hasn’t he made enough money to go away? I mean, he’s 76...are people suing him? I’m too tired to bother answering my own question. Anyway, this is a weird idea for a show, especially with him involved. It would be like having Dahmer host a talk show about cannibalism.

Yikes... yeah this sounds like a real great idea.

Damon Young at the Root summed this up pretty well in his piece on Monday.

Note how in CPR14's example, the ability to take the risk means that her husband now employs four people. All of those people benefit from employment, plus they pay taxes, plus the larger economic impact of that business conveys all sorts of benefits to the community. I’m quite happy to have my tax dollars go into…

Look, I like money as much as the next guy, but there are two fundamental problems here. One is that any small-scale experiment in “universal” income is, by definition, not universal. This means that the test isn’t sufficient to break into the macroeconomic scale, so we find out what happens on a small scale, but we…

Something I don’t often see people take into account is that a UBI would free people to take more risks. I’m much more likely to quit my job and start a new business if I know I have a safety net to catch me in case the business fails horribly. A UBI also means I don’t have to worry about paying myself when starting a…

I’ve worked in politics and government for nearly 20 years. Right now, I work for a public official.

Thank you! I wanted to scream this at my tablet when I was reading the article yesterday but decided that posting in the WaPo comment section is a waste of my time.

This is the consequence of the long-seeded “Both sides!” nonsense that’s taken over political discourse nowadays. And planted by the right and cultivated by the major media outlets, of course (thanks CNN).

I think it’s more complicated than this. For one, indoctrination is *hella* powerful. You can’t expect people to change their minds just *like that* because people don’t. It’d be great if humans were like that, but...well, we’re not. And especially if someone grew up in a conservative bubble, you pretty much can’t…

Counterpoint: I am having a ton of fun playing this “terrible” game.

You’re right, that was a huge trend! So many (mostly European) art films depicting sex as innately loathsome and terrifying. I watched them all as a teenager because I was invested in appearing intellectual and sophisticated in my tastes (lol), but in retrospect most were pretentious crap. The only one I sort of…

They have been kicking the can down the road. I’m a teacher in Kentucky, and I pay 13% of my check to the pension fund. The state, on the other hand, hasn’t been funding their portion. They’ve been borrowing from the pension fund for years and now want to blame teachers for the shortfall. . The legislature needs to…

I’m inclined to believe Asia. Breillat’s films are full of horrifying misogyny, although I’m sure someone will come along to explain why I’m not deep and French enough to understand why they’re actually feminist masterpieces. I don’t know how anyone could watch, say, “Anatomy of Hell” and not think its creator might…

FML I accidentally gave them another slogan.

All the dealers in my high school were white.

It’s so weird, because white business types absolutely LOVE coke and everybody knows it.

I went to a work offsite and one of the speakers was a guy talking about workplace diversity. He mentioned the word “privilege,” and I could see the spines of about 100 white men in the room collectively stiffen. But! He followed up with the example of being left-handed. He gave numerous examples of the way the world…

Thanks for clarifying what you’re saying. I see what you’re getting at.