I see the WSJ is on its "making $400K a year isn't *really* rich so people in this income bracket couldn't afford a single extra cent in taxes" bullshit again lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/09/the-re…
The party of the working class: $11M is a "small nest egg" for a couple
To state the obvious, saving lots of money so you can enjoy luxurious consumption without working at a relatively young age doesn't make you less rich than if you engage in the luxurious consumption now -- indeed, quite the opposite
"After I've paid the mortgage on a large dwelling in a desirable urban area and the two Audi payments and private school tuition for little Galt and Rearden and paid the maid and gardener and put 70K in the index fund there's only the budget for one European vacation!"
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It's worth noting here that the pharma lickspittles aren't even the most marginal. Peters won his last election by more than 20 points, Rice by 13. They can live without their money. They're killing the most popular part of Biden's agenda because they can -- that's it.
Also worth noting that Rice's justifications for opposing literally the most broadly popular item on Biden's agenda are almost surreally nonsensical: prospect.org/politics/how-k…
The vast majority of people in the study who were, per the study’s definitions, unhealthily fat, *did not have any statistically significant increased risk for either hospitalization or death from COVID, relative to people at what the study defines as a “healthy weight.”*
"insignificant differences in relative risk are, in the context of the moral panic over obesity, treated as irrefutable proof that fat people are dying of this or that illness, that has been caused supposedly by their fatness."
LOL Glenn wanted California to have an anti-vaxx MAGA governor so desperately, and now he's lashing out at people for pointing out how badly his side got crushed
This is particularly devastating for Glenn because the recall vote became a referendum on the DeSantisian anti-anti COVID policies he strongly prefers, and it has to sting how much better CA is doing than Texas and Florida
Tune into Tucker tonight to see Glenn talk about how it's extremely bad for cable news hosts to have a preference for one political party over another
Cooley’s gift is to bring a consistent sense of justice and compassion to Zevonian sardonicism and wit, and it’s a remarkable one even if he makes it seem inevitable
This piece by @SherylNYT does a really good job of explaining how banal are and how previously uncontroversial vaccine mandates they were: nytimes.com/2021/09/12/us/…
The optimistic scenario is that Republicans forget about the new “principle” that you ha verge right to expose other people to a deadly virus when it can longer be used to undermine Joe Biden
The one endlessly recycled "safe space" anecdote at least did seem to involve something called "safe spaces." The Oberlin "campus workers were attacked over fake banh mi" story is just 100% pure made-up bullshit but these Campus PC anecdotes never, ever die
Packer inventing specific emotional reactions for workers who didn't exist is a nice touch, though
Mrs. Krabappel and Principal Skinner were in the closet making babies and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me with bemusement, or sullen rage