“I get a lot of emails these days, (a good thing!) and a lot of them involve people sending me links to houses (or pictures of their own) asking me whether or not the house in question is or is not a McMansion. This post aims to explain the important differences between the two.”
“According to a new survey, Project: Time Off and GfK, millennials are actually more likely to see themselves—proudly—as ‘work martyrs’ than older workers and less likely to use all their vacation time.”
“Can Harry Potter defeat Donald Trump? Harry may not be a full-on patronus against the Republican presidential nominee’s appeal, but reading Potter stories does appear to be a shield charm against Trump’s message.”
Two words: Robot octopus. You’re welcome.
What Scalzi says.
Peace breaks out in Colombia.
RIP, Juan Gabriel, Mexican musical superstar.
RIP, Gene Wilder, star of classic movies such as “The Producers”, “Young Frankenstein”, “Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory”, and many more.
“What was once confined to UFO and Big Foot obsessives has now metastasized into the political mainstream and captured one of the nation’s two major parties — with the encouragement of some of its most prominent members.”
Playing the lottery – still a bad idea, one that a lot of people do.
“I don’t want to defeat these folks in a scorched-earth total victory, I want to help them make the right choice at this Trumpian crossroads. I don’t want to shame them, but to help them escape the potential shame they’re in jeopardy of acquiring.”
“Sit! Stay! Good boy! Many of us use such words with our nonhuman best friends every day. Now new research suggests that they may actually understand at least some of what we say—and that they may be paying a lot of attention to how we say it.” Or maybe that’s what they want us to think.
“Buried deep at the bottom — section 136 — of Massachusetts state legislature Bill H.4569 are two paragraphs that could make the Bay State travel in time.”
“Colin Powell’s foundation and Hillary Clinton’s are treated very differently by the media”.
Roving gangs of conservative Republican Congressmen are an increasing hazard.
“Basically, the reason for headlines like this is because Bill Clinton decided after his presidency to set up a large and active foundation that raised a ton of money for exceptionally worthy causes around the world. If he had decided to just lounge around instead, none of this would ever have come up. It’s a little hard to believe that he’s getting so much grief for this.”
“What conservative evangelicals are saying is that there is nothing LGBT people can ever do to convince them that they are worthy of affirmation.”
What Josh Marshall says, times a billion.