The Democratic Party is the most united American party in modern political history.
The real-life Bada Bing Club will be closing its doors in New Jersey.
What can go wrong when you give Amazon your house key.
It’s harder than you might think to accurately count violent crimes in the US.
Safer avocados for fewer hand injuries.
Poor babies: “A bad dream for U.S. firearms producers has become reality: The fear-based motivation for gun purchases has evaporated and is being replaced by bargain hunting.”
“This is the Elmore Leonard/Frank Peretti mash-up I didn’t even realize I’d been waiting for.”
“Democrats cannot shut down the government. They are the minority party and have neither the power nor the responsibility to keep the lights on and the government open.”
You can’t snitch on golfers any more.
An already outdated list of TV shows that have been affected by the wave of sexual harassment allegations.
RIP, Ed Lee, former Mayor of San Francisco.
Future generations will be taught about Roy Moore’s final campaign rally in Alabama as the sort of thing that we are glad never happens any more.
“The larger issue is that the Republican Party is led by an unpopular president and unpopular congressional leaders who are pursuing an unpopular agenda, and it’s putting them in massive electoral peril.”
“Not every race is going to go as badly for Republicans as this Alabama Senate election — but if enough go half as badly, or even a third as badly, they’re still in for a rough time next year.”
RIP, Pat DiNizio, lead singer of The Smithereens.
Disney buys most of Fox. But not Fox News. That would have been interesting.
“Rosenstein is clearly trying to thread the needle: protecting Mueller’s lawful and correct investigation while also kicking enough dirt and rubble into the gears of the rule of law to serve or perhaps keep at bay his ultimate master, President Trump. It’s comparable to his role in James Comey’s firing: writing a nominally reasonable memo which he knew would be used for an unreasonable, quite possibly illegal purpose. It is almost the definition of complicity – a largely passive and perhaps incomplete participation in corrupt acts.”
“The castle grounds snarled with a wave of magically magnified wind. The sky outside was a great black ceiling, which was full of blood. The only sounds drifting from Hagrid’s hut were the disdainful shrieks of his own furniture. Magic: it was something that Harry Potter thought was very good.”