Regarding Gary Cohn, who recently quit the Trump administration, someone should constantly point out that one of the main reasons that many of these Goldman Sachs alumni do a brief stint in government after they retire from Goldman is that they are allowed to sell all their very concentrated positions in that company’s stock and do an asset allocation tax-free.
There’s no need to pay capital gains taxes, saving approximately $150 million in Mr. Cohn’s case.

Well isn't that a neat little loophole!

When the Times opinion page pretends that conservatism is David Brooks or Bret Stephens when it maintains the comforting illusion that American politics is a contest of ideas, it is not exposing its readers to uncomfortable truths — it is sheltering them.

Do NYT readers — who mostly read mainstream sources, mostly live in cities, mostly are not exposed to right-wing media — understand that the most active voices on the American right today are filled with paranoid rage, hopped up on lies and conspiracy theories, unmoved by reason, and devoted to their total destruction? Do they understand that the values and norms they assume safe and sacrosanct are in fact under heavy siege? Do they know that American democracy is in danger of coming apart?

I’m not sure they do; I think they still imagine Republican moderates gathered in a cave somewhere, ready to swoop in and take charge again at the sight of the David Brooks bat signal.

If the NYT wants to challenge their assumptions, it should challenge those.

DeLAND, Fla. - Two men are accused of breaking into the home of a man they both dated, stealing several items, then leaving spaghetti sauce boiling on the stove with a washcloth placed near the burner in an attempt to start a fire, according to the Volusia County Sheriff's Office.

The victim called 911 about 7 a.m. Tuesday because the security cameras in his home on Evergreen Terrace in DeLand detected motion and he believed someone was breaking in because a towel had been placed over one of the cameras, the report said.

Deputies went to the residence and saw a red Lincoln Navigator attempting to leave the area. A stop was conducted and the driver, 28-year-old John Silva, and passenger, Derrick Irving, told the deputy that they had just picked up some clothes from the victim's home, according to the affidavit.

The victim told News 6 that Irving was wearing a bull costume.

The deputy said she could see a marijuana grinder in the center console and a vacuum, window A/C unit, flat-screen television and heater in the back seat. An empty jar of Ragu spaghetti sauce was also on the passenger's seat, the report said.

Mrs was away at girls' dinner last night so I got to have a little freak out in the kitchen. Made a pot of pasta, fried a very thin hamburger and topped it with mozz and fried pepperoni. Put the burger on top of the pasta, drowned the whole thing in red sauce. Thus was born the Pizza Sketti Burger.

Can I just say... Reverb.com is the best internet thing I've found in a long time. I have a bunch of old and moldering guitar junk that I don't use, but which strangers on the internet are happy to buy! And Reverb makes it all so damned easy: take some pix, describe it and pick a price. If someone buys it, you print the label and stuff your stuff in the mail. Done.

And if my old vibrato pedal would just sell, I'd have enough cash saved up up to buy that new vibrato/phase pedal I've been lusting after.

Oklahoma woman, 45, who married her daughter, 26, after her marriage to her teenage son was annulled gets two years in prison.

It's funny cause it's eew.

What happens when you train a neural network to come up with kitten names?

Joy!!!

Jeckle
Elbent
Jenderina
Roober
Snorp
Snox Boops
Cylon
Sookabear
Frere
Sonney Mrow
Jexley Pickle
Marper
Foppin
Toby Booch
Snowpie
Big Wiggy Bool
Macha Boo
Mr Whinkles
Timble
Macfallon
Machaka
Licky Cat
Mr Bincheh
Macnaw
Maxy Fay
Tim Hike
Mr Gruffles
Grips
Liony Oli
Lingo
Lingley
Conkie
Lasley Goo
Mr Took
Linky
Marvish
Mag Jeggles
Corko
Maggin
Mcguntton
Mara Tatters
Mr Tiggie
Mr. Skuffles
Mr. Hinkles
Mush Jam
Tilly-Mapper
Mr. Jubble
Mumcake
Muppin
Mr O

SPOKANE, Wash. -- Washington state wildlife biologists have caught and tagged a 197-pound cougar. CBS affiliate KREM reports that the biologists tagged the massive cat on Monday north of Chewelah.

State carnivore research scientist Brian Kertson called the cat a "monster." He said it's so muscular that the first tranquilizer dart he shot at it popped out as the cat flexed.

Puzzle over this at Spurious Correlations.

Crooked Hillary said that I want guns brought into the school classroom. Wrong!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 22, 2016

I kindof miss the days when ordering anything on-line or by phone or whatever meant at least a week of waiting, without knowing exactly when it would arrive. Every day, you come home, and check "Is it here yet?!" Anticipation can be fun! These days, I order something on Amazon, they tell me exactly when it will arrive, and it's usually within a day or two of when I order. I can track it as it moves from city to city and they can tell me what time of day it will show up. Boring.

They should offer an Irregular Delivery option, to put a little mystery back in things.