I feel like it’s playing with fire to buy a jersey of an active player. But I guess you’re never totally safe—imagine all the Curt Schilling jerseys that have been given to Goodwill in the last year. Read more
Al Cohall. (He went by Alvin.) Read more
1996 Yankees, for pretty obvious (I think) reasons. Read more
Hurricane Sandy took us out though. Even if the Russians don’t fear us, God does. Read more
We uh, bought a bottle of smelling salts that now sits on the desk between me and Ley. It’s not the worst option. Read more
Texas is satisfying as hell, very balanced mixture of straight artificial borders and natural river borders. Read more
Fun: Wide receiver
Wins: Goalie
Satisfaction: Quarterback Read more
It has gotten to the point where Ley has offered Ashley five bucks to manually paste the text of tweets into Slack for her. Read more
I’m of mixed feelings about it, but on the Pro side of doing it is that I think it’d be more effective if it were the norm—if every outlet did it. As far as I know, Slate and Reason are the only ones whose staffs reveal their votes every four years.
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We’ve actually discussed a blog that discloses who each staffer is voting for, not because it’d be interesting but just in the sake of transparency. Do you, readers, think there’s any value in doing something like that? Read more
Redwood; Ent Read more
Oh hell yeah. Shouldn’t even be just a fall-only thing, either. Read more
Physics. Read more
Redford only knows flags. He’s eminently beatable outside of vexillology. Read more
We got a voicemail on the office phone yesterday and the Google Voice voice-to-text software said the person was asking for Poodle Patel. Read more
I will probably celebrate, spike the football for a little bit, then go directly to feeling awful and sad. This will happen again no matter what non-Trump voters do. (Here is a good Drew blog on that.) This country is fundamentally fucked and schizo, and, honestly, probably shouldn’t be a single country. Read more
Professionalism or not, being BFFs with Scalia is highly suspect. Read more
One of Trump’s list of potential Supreme Court nominees has already called for him to drop out of the race. Read more