“The first and most important thing to understand about these deals is that there is no possible set of mitigating circumstances that might make the negotiations remotely ethical.”
“Giuliani had been doing business in Ukraine long before Trump’s ascent to power. We’re now learning the full measure of his work there in the last two years.”
RIP, Dorothy Seymour Mills, author and baseball historian.
RIP, Seymour Siwoff, sports statistics pioneer and longtime head of the Elias Sports Bureau.
“How the Hmong diaspora uses the world’s most boring technology to make something weird and wonderful”.
Martin O’Malley is a role model.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with the field goal that having more coaches who understand win probability wouldn’t fix, but making them worth two points instead of three would certainly shake things up.
“A U.S. president has at his disposal the most authoritative information available on Earth. Yet Trump doesn’t seem to want it. Disdainful of credentialed professionals, Trump has taken extraordinary steps, and spent taxpayer dollars, standing up dubious ideas of his own creation.”
“Impeachment is bringing out President Trump’s instincts as marketer in chief, as he seeks to turn a perilous, shame-inducing inquiry into an aggressive fundraising and mobilization tool.”
Just read Lisa Page’s story. Seriously, just read it.
The case against buying a Ring video doorbell.
“The Case of the Felonious Bread“.
Man, people have feelings about that Peloton ad.
Devin Nunes is a boundless idiot.
RIP, DC Fontana, author and longtime writer for multiple Star Trek series.
“It’s troubling that this even needs to be said, but because legislators in Ohio apparently don’t know: you cannot re-implant an ectopic pregnancy. Ectopic pregnancies are potentially life-threatening complications where a fertilized egg implants itself somewhere outside of the uterus, usually in the fallopian tube.”
“Sadly, but with confidence and humility, with allegiance to our Founders and our hearts full of love for America, today, I am asking our Chairmen to proceed with articles of impeachment.”
“Here are photos of Trump with Prince Andrew, who he says he does not know”.
“People talk about whether the Democrats should go small or go big. I think it’s more whether they should go fast or go slow. (After all, it’s easy enough to add on an obstruction article based on the Mueller Report. The work is already done.) I think they’re right to go fast, even as I agree that the arguments to the contrary are powerful and compelling.”
“Even if we adopted that hypothetical that an imaginary President Trump had been a basically normal President who just did this one really nuts, terribly thing, it would still be impeachable. But it would be different. The contrary is the case though. We have four years of evidence that this is who he is; this is what he does; and that he thinks he is entitled to do so. Indeed, when after three years he finally beat the rap on the first crime, he literally went back to the well the very next day. The July 25th phone call was the day after Robert Mueller’s fairly tepid testimony. This is profoundly important for understanding the danger the country faces from Donald Trump.”
I missed DC Fontana; you missed “Charlie X” on deaths. https://www.unionjournalism.com/2019/12/07/star-trek-the-original-series-charlie-x-robert-walker-jr-dies-at-age-79/