“Walk-to-School Day also is also a reminder of the many ways we’ve engineered walking out of the lives of children, and how forbidding our culture and environment can be toward walking.”
What James Madison said, or at least what he would have said if he were alive today and had a potty mouth.
Is the future success of driverless cars dependent to some extent on how good human drivers are?
The decline and fall of Johnny Football.
“Republicans, and Democrats can’t compromise on health care for the same reason they can’t compromise on taxes: They have diametric goals. On taxes, Republicans want to shift the burden from the rich to the poor, while Democrats want the opposite. A similar dynamic exists in health care. Republicans want to restore the ability of healthy and wealthy people to buy cheap plans that don’t cross-subsidize the sick and the poor — the very features of the insurance system that Obamacare was designed to stop. Since Republican ideas for improving the health-care system all involve shifting costs from the rich and healthy to the poor and sick, there’s just no way to blend them together with the goals Democrats have in mind.”
Sixty years have passed since Don Larsen’s perfect game in the World Series.
Here’s what Arianne Zucker and Nancy O’Dell have to say about being insultwleered by Donald Trump in that 2005 video.
If Donald Trump leads to the end of the Religious Right as a political force, it will be a good thing.
“We’re from America, she told my daughter. But sometimes people don’t understand that. I hope you do now.”
Tom Tomorrow’s This Modern World is coming to TV. Jim Henson’s Fraggle Rock is coming back to TV. Access Hollywood’s Billy Bush will not be on TV for at least a few days. You’re welcome.
Can we get Kenneth Bone to moderate the next debate?
“This is not funny. It is terrifying. The Russians engage in a sloppy disinformation effort and, before the day is out, the Republican nominee for president is standing on a stage reciting the manufactured story as truth. How did this happen? Who in the Trump campaign was feeding him falsehoods straight from the Kremlin?”
“By whichever path, Russian propaganda is ubiquitous on the alt-right/racist web – particularly on Twitter, Reddit, 4chan and similar sites.” Never has the term “useful idiot” been more comprehensible.
“All six of the 2016 American Nobel laureates announced to date are immigrants.”
Ten years ago, MLB pitcher Cory Lidle was killed in a plane crash, along with his flight instructor. This story is about his widow and son and how they are doing ten years after. Well worth your time.
It’s people like Eleanor Tinsley that make local politics worthwhile.
Mars, y’all. Also, I love the editor’s note at the beginning of this. As if we needed that.
“The way we approach transportation in American cities is at a turning point.”
“But it seems fair to say that, if Trump loses the election, it will be because women voted against him.”
I’m a supporter of instant replay in baseball (and other sports), but I agree that the rule about sliding into bases should be changed to keep replay for enforcing something that never could or should have been enforced before.
What James Fallows says. Also, too, maybe at some point we can arrive at the opinion that emails being hacked by a foreign government and disclosed by a foreign actor with a stated interest in affecting the US political process is not such a good thing for us.
The inside story of Donald Trump’s Comedy Central Roast.
“But staying silent about harassment and abuse is the most common response among victims of these crimes. It’s not hard to see why.”
Damn right, Hillary Clinton is inspiring.
RIP, King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand, the world’s longest-serving monarch.
“In other words, the manner of Trump’s political demise may extend the life of Trumpism.”
Ema Matthews is the Internet hero we needed in the post-Kenneth Bone era.
“Trump never seemed to have thought through the implications of sitting through discovery in a hotly contested lawsuit — which is why my lawyers had the opportunity to depose him for a two-day stretch during which he lied 30 times about his career and finances.”