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From Paul Krugman:

There is a wide range of opinion in the water cooler on what it means to be a responsible citizen? Please say it isn't f^cking so.

One thing that will help is for more people to realize that secession talk and other forms of asininity are being hyped because they are useful for stoking the cash raising machine to which both parties are addicted.

From The best way to end mass incarceration is to catch more criminals by Matt Yglesias:

Jane Mayer acknowledges the failure of the Press to "get the message across" in with the authors of "The DIVIDER", Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, at the Politics & Prose bookstore in DC last night. When asked if more candor from John Kelly and other enablers would have made a difference, Baker said "No. I think everybody's looking for this silver bullet that's going to suddenly wake up everybody who likes Trump and say 'Oh my gosh he's not what I thought he was' and the truth is they've had multiple opportunities if they're open to that conversation and they're not".

From Joe Klein's review of "CONFIDENCE MAN: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America" by Maggie Haberman:

It's not just the water cooler apparently.

re: trolls Ideally, forum software would support delegating mod authority to thread starters. A reasonable alternative would be to ban posters who don't respect requests from thread starters to please stop sh*t posting.

From Roger Federer as Religious Experience by David Foster Wallace (Aug. 20, 2006): Update: Subtlety, touch, and finesse were definitely not dead in the finals of the 2022 US Open.

Aaron Judge hits 56th, 57th homers in 10th multi-HR game of season

From Yes, the Polling Warning Signs Are Flashing Again by Nate Cohn at NYT: