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Archive for 2019
October 24, 2019
“I DON’T KNOW IF IT MAKES SENSE, AND I DON’T KNOW HOW LONG IT’S GOING TO LAST.” The Millennial Urban Lifestyle Is About to Get More Expensive. “If you wake up on a Casper mattress, work out with a Peloton before breakfast, Uber to your desk at a WeWork, order DoorDash for lunch, take a Lyft home, and get dinner through Postmates, you’ve interacted with seven companies that will collectively lose nearly $14 billion this year. If you use Lime scooters to bop around the city, download Wag to walk your dog, and sign up for Blue Apron to make a meal, that’s three more brands that have never recorded a dime in earnings, or have seen their valuations fall by more than 50 percent. . . . You might call it the Millennial Lifestyle Sponsorship, in which consumer tech companies, along with their venture-capital backers, help fund the daily habits of their disproportionately young and urban user base. With each Uber ride, WeWork membership, and hand-delivered dinner, the typical consumer has been getting a sweetheart deal.”
A bunch of urban progressives, mostly, living a lifestyle subsidized by the money-losing investments of billionaires. And yet everyone on the stage at the Democratic debates was dissing billionaires.
THIS ISN’T YOUR OLDER BROTHER’S GQ: I have a hard time believing that any substantial percentage of young man are looking for this in a men’s magazine.
WILL COLLIER: The Republican SCIF Invasion and the Law. “Bringing your phone into a secure facility is a violation, but not necessarily a major one.”
Today’s Republican excursion into protest theater in the Capitol, wherein a large number of GOP members rushed the Intelligence Committee’s Secure Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) without first putting away their cell phones, has generated an . . . interesting response among left-wing Twitter.
Among the more histrionic responses came from self-described “Multimedia Journalist” David Leavitt, who issued this demanded: “Every @GOP member who invaded the SCIF should be taken into custody by the Capitol Police & questioned by the FBI to determine if they’re serving a foreign intelligence service. They should also be removed from the House until the investigation is completed & votes out of office.”
Well. Having spent the better part of 20 years working in SCIFs every day myself, I have some experience with these matters. Let’s take a moment to unpack this a bit before calling in the marshal of the Supreme Court.
A “heh” to the Classical Reference, and a “read the whole thing” to the rest.
I’M GONNA GET ME A BERT’S CHILI: Elizabeth Warren Says Her Favorite Place Is Waffle House.
Sorry, Liz, but you’re not going to be scattered, smothered, and covered with love over this.
NEVER LET A MANUFACTURED CRISIS GO TO WASTE: Attorney blasts California Gov. Newsom for using homeless crisis to overturn will of voters.
Attorney Jim Breslo said Wednesday that California Gov. Gavin Newsom overturned the will of California voters by using the homeless crisis as an excuse to impose statewide rent control in an attempt to address a housing shortage.
“He’s [Newsom is] trying to use a crisis to do things that he wasn’t otherwise able to do,” Breslo told “Fox & Friends.”
“They couldn’t get statewide rent control approved by the voters.”
Although Newsom previously opposed the initiative, the former lieutenant governor and mayor of San Francisco changed his position and plans to sign a statewide rent-control law.
One more time, the Housing Gnomes’ three-step plan works like this:
1. Make construction more costly, and also cap rents.
2. ???
3. Housing for everyone!
Fortunately, I have a huge supply Unexpectedlys for use as the steps play out.
TIME TO TAKE A VICTORY LAP, I GUESS: Kathy Griffin says she can’t get work, blames ‘older white guys.’
TRIAL FIRST, CHARGES LATER: Alan Dershowitz: Impeachers Searching for New Crimes. “The search for the perfect impeachable offense against President Trump is reminiscent of overzealous prosecutors who target the defendant first and then search for the crime with which to charge him. Or to paraphrase the former head of the Soviet secret police to Stalin: show me the man and I will find you the crime.”
BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez On Fame: ‘Sometimes I Just Want To Be A Human Being.’ “A supportive tweet about Meghan Markle reflected Ocasio-Cortez’s deep sense of empathy about life in the spotlight.”
Won’t the Brits take them both?
D’OH! Hillary Clinton Accidentally Posts Condolences For Tulsi Gabbard’s Suicide One Day Early. “This morning, Clinton posted that she felt ‘great sadness’ at hearing that Gabbard had killed herself. In subsequent tweets, she detailed how ‘tragic’ it was that Gabbard had broken her own kneecaps, stuck her feet in concrete, then tossed herself off the docks near a seedy warehouse.”
MORE REASON TO BUILD THE WALL: A Drug Cartel Just Defeated The Mexican Military In Battle.
HMM: Sex Offenders Sue Georgia Sheriff for Placing ‘No Trick-or-Treat’ Signs on their Property.
I understand what the sheriff is trying to do, but given some of the things that pass for sex offenses these days I’m not sure it’s a good idea.
THE “COMPETENT,” OBAMA-ERA SYRIA POLICY: CIA-armed militias are shooting at Pentagon-armed ones in Syria.
FIRST ILHAN OMAR, NOW THIS ITS AS IF MARRIAGE DOESN’T MATTER TO THEM: Freshman Rep. Katie Hill’s ‘throuple’ uncovered amid bitter divorce. To do her credit, none of the people involved appear to be Hill’s sibling. I know, I know, but it is something!
RUMOR IS THE GOP HAS ALREADY RECRUITED HIM FOR A HOUSE SEAT: Lazy horse plays dead every time people try to ride him.
THE LEFT HATES THE ENTIRE BILL OF RIGHTS: Freedom of Speech Under Attack.
THERE ARE NONE SO BLIND AS THOSE WHO WILL NOT THINK: Blind men say they were ‘accosted’ by animal rights activist for using guide dogs.
NEXT, THEY’LL LEGISLATE SUNNY DAYS, TO COMBAT RAIN. WHEN WILL THEY UNDERSTAND THE LAWS OF ECONOMICS ARE NOT FOR THEM TO VOTE ON? Berlin state government agrees on 5-year rent freeze.
IS THERE NOTHING IT CAN’T DO? SURELY SOME EVIL THINGS ARE DONE BY TRUMP, INSTEAD??? Climate change making stronger El Ninos, study finds.
LOW-WAGE DOMINOS EMPLOYEES FORCED TO LISTEN TO ENDLESS VEGAN WHINGING: Vegan traumatized after eating ‘plant-based’ pizza made with real ham.
Alternate comment, “There, there, honey, maybe the pig was vegan!”
SHOCKING NEW STUDY FINDS ONE-SIZE-FITS-ALL REGULATION HAS DOWNSIDES: Banning out-of-hours access to work emails could harm employee well-being.