Remonstrances — that’s what we need!

I was halfway ready to believe that. Good thing you put in the part about the mitre.

Every time I use the Gino coefficient in a real-world situation, it comes out to be .40-.45. When all the qualitative estimates say a change is a big deal it’s my job to get upper management excited about a project. Gini just doesn’t do that.

When I was a boy, I came across an IQ test from the 30s in my grandmother’s attic. The only question I could answer was the one that asked what was missing from a picture of a box labeled “vory soap”.

Five people is just about enough to fill that hole in the lineup.

Here we can see the superiority of the Modern Age: we can be both learned and lewd. We don’t have to choose.

There may not be a limit on how much I’d pay for a weed-killing, bug-sucking robot.

This doesn’t mention the most insidious tentacle of the plutocracy. Not just US Democrats, but Gerhard Schröder and Nick Clegg were caught by it. If any left/liberal figure does get a share of power, there’s a million-a-year sinecure waiting for him after he leaves office — if he does the plutocracy’s bidding.

Hang on — JASON has been dissolved, but this program still exists?

If the Democrats ever develop the will to impeach corrupt Justices, 15,000 counts of negligent homicide will go nicely in the articles.

“Home invasion” again. A cop of my acquaintance assures me that a 99%-effective way to prevent home invasions is to stop selling drugs.

No mention of Hadrian’s Wall.

Concerning Titus, the Winchester manuscript says “Titus Uespassianus sunu in Hierusalem ofslog Iudea .cxi þusenda.”. 111,000 casualties seems more credible.

I’ve lost the flick, here. How is it that Clinton’s deficit reduction and Trump’s deficit expansion both stimulated the economy? Was the government “crowding out” in 1995?

Tsuga is coniferous, not umbelliferous, and the Eldar aren’t Canadian.

Thingol was the tallest of all the children of Iluvatar. Luthien danced under hemlock-umbels, which are usually 3-4 feet above the ground. The rejection of my grant proposal to estimate the height of Melian is an injustice that I can attribute only to malfeasance on the part of the Committee.

The New York Times Company has a market capitalization of $5.5B. Such things are on the right, and it shall never be otherwise.

So many crimes are punishable by fines. When wealth is so concentrated, criminal justice doesn’t work any more, because the fine is just another cost. Tax the rich so heavily that we can restore law and order.

I guess the next thing to do is figure out which of these basis vectors are orthogonal.

It appears to meet the definition of a denial-of-service attack, but who is the victim? Is it us, or Twitter itself?

Robert Kelly speculates on whether or not the bill was (uncharacteristically) paid. https://twitter.com/robert_e_kelly/status/1121619943575830529

I'm starting to like this idea. It will, of course, start a bidding war with right-wing billionaires. The resulting influx of money and population to the rotten boroughs will do a lot to restore a measure of economic equitability to the US.

True nerdiness is reading this comment and barely hesitating before mentally inserting <x>’s where they should be.

“Resent” is correct, around here at least. They’re deeply sincere about it, but I don’t understand it.

Son... have you rehabilitated yourself?