McRigged. As a poor Senate aide, my colleagues and I would trek from the Capitol grounds over to the Union Station McDonald’s. Not only was the food cheap, but we wanted to see if we could win $1,000,000 in the annual fast food game. The Daily Beast has a fascinating look at how an insider rigged it to enrich himself and his friends.
Congrats, Jim Thome. The former Indians slugger made it to Cooperstown and got a little choked up.
Unhappy Worrier. Do read Kyle Smith’s wonderful National Review essay on parenting.
Oh, Canada. Our peculiar neighbors to the north are creating a new tradition: Adding chairs around the little white pizza table, soon to be banned, I’m sure, in California. If it isn’t already.
Be A HERO. That’s GoPro’s slogan, and that is what this dog is.
When HP ruled the world. Jean-Louis Gassée of the Monday Note has a neat remembrance of his career in tech, when Hewlett Packard dominated the world.
Medicare for all is gonna be costly. A friend observes that a recent study thinks Bernie’s proposal will cost about half of the planet’s yearly GDP to fund 10 years of Real Socialism™.
“My client didn’t do it, and even if he did it, it’s not a crime.” After months of suggesting the Mueller investigation was all a witch hunt, Rudy Giuliani, speaking for Team Trump, has finally moved the goalposts. Make sure to update your talking points. Here are all of the various arguments President Trump has made against the special counsel investigation.
Seinfeld Law. Ever wonder about how the zany cast of characters’ actions in Seinfeld might intersect with legal reality? There’s a website for that.
“When should you leave the ballpark?” That’s what FiveThirtyEight wondered, before crunching the numbers to conclude: “The leading team has a more than 95 percent chance of winning a game if it holds a lead of at least four runs after the sixth inning.” The correct answer, of course, is that you leave when the game is over.
Being a nut pays off. Call it the “Bernie Effect” or whatever you want, but do read Charles C.W. Cooke at National Review on the unfortunate rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. As David Rutz summarizes: “The more wrong an insurgent candidate is—and the more that’s pointed out—the more credibility and respect said candidate gets from the base: ‘They’re scared!!’”
