The frustrating fact is that people seem more distrustful of big institutions that enforce ethics than random people selling a line

Making someone feel they know the Real Meaning is also a good way to make them feel like they're in the in-group who will be looked after rather than the out-group who might lose out under new policies

Has liability-hunting for Prop 65 defects been good?

Oh yeah, we're getting close to the cool zone now

Yeah, many parents also wanted to delay school opening!

Why is everyone suddenly changing their flag?

"People who read the New York Times vote Dem" remains tired but true

2,500 sounds low, even

It's also symmetric. Once the Republican party embraces machine politics, Dems have to match it or risk becoming the opposition the way Rs were through most of the 20th century

One of the qualifications to be a personal life columnist is a life which disqualifies you from offering advice to anyone else, I think

Feel like the Kochs have really fallen off in political discourse

Steel tariffs, sector-specific and invisible to consumers, are more akin to subsidies to the domestic steel industry. It's *relatively* normal to dial those up and down according to different industries' political sway. The universal tariffs with friendly countries though, no one believes