Unqualified Offerings

An hour in and it’s too early to tell exactly how the show will set about justifying cruelty and abuse, but it’s not to early to say, Man this show is inept. The dialog is awful, the characters are thin and the actors can’t put any meat on them, presumably on account of, they suck. [...]

Chargers-Steelers,12:57 Q4. And that’s why you go for it on fourth down near the goal line, boys and girls. Even when you don’t convert, as Pittsburgh did not, you back the other team up and have a better-than-even chance of a touchdown next possession.

Whom will the Lord bless today? Whom should the Lord bless today?

The United States government has always engaged in war crimes and human rights violations. What’s different this decade is that, under the leadership of a terrible president, our elites have become vociferous advocates of the goodness and rightness of war crimes and human rights violations. After the period from Grant and Sherman’s Indian policies to [...]

Urban-hellhole maven Atrios wonders at the point of
the truly weirdest form of contemporary residential development, the “townhome” development on a giant plot of land. That is, sets of attached homes with ample parking and even more ample but mostly pointless green space. I assume this is mostly driven by zoning laws, with developers getting in [...]

When I first read Michael C. Moynihan japing about Belgian (and Swedish) workers gaming their national sick-leave system, my immediate, snarky reaction was, "Shit! If we had policies like that here, it might wreck the whole economy!" The WSJ article Moynihan links to reeks of nostalgia, like a posting from a journal-game based on the [...]