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Jim Jefferies on Gun Control

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Joe Cocker and John Belushi, SNL, Feeling Alright, 1976

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“Jacksy”

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Daniel Day Lewis explains his preparation.

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The bill passed today by Republicans is one of the most regressive pieces of legislation in living memory.

John Cassidy:

On top of all this is another huge issue, which I’ve pointed to before. The bill passed on Thursday includes a substantial tax cut for the rich, financed by big cuts in Medicaid, the federal program that provides health care to the poor and indigent. Obamacare expanded Medicaid and chip, the children’s version of the program, and, to pay for these and other provisions, the law imposed a tax of 3.8 per cent on the investment incomes of wealthy households and a 0.9-per-cent surtax on their ordinary incomes. That money has helped sixteen million struggling Americans, many of them kids, obtain health coverage since the start of 2014.

The House bill eliminates the Obamacare taxes, reverses the Medicaid expansion, and converts the financing of the program from a per-capita subsidy to a block-grant system. What impact would this have? Since the treatment of Medicaid in the bill that passed is basically unchanged from the original version, we can rely on the C.B.O.’s analysis, which showed that, over ten years, spending on Medicaid would be reduced by almost nine hundred billion dollars. Of the roughly twenty-four million people the C.B.O. estimated would lose their health coverage under the original version of the bill, fourteen million were Medicaid recipients.

In short, the bill the House just passed is one of the most regressive pieces of legislation in living memory. When Republicans cut taxes on the rich and slash funding for programs aimed at the poor, they usually go to great lengths to argue that the two things are unconnected. But in this instance they have done away with the subterfuge. It’s reverse Robin Hood, in plain view.

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Chuck Berry and John Lennon perform "Memphis, Tennessee"

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Watch & repost the video above. It’s an ad from www.HealthCare.gov informing Americans how to sign up for health coverage they’re legally entitled to. The ad was running on TV, prepaid by www.HealthCare.gov. Trump took it down because he doesn’t want Americans to sign up and receive this health care. Taking down the video, which American tax dollars had already paid for, is another example of him throwing our tax dollars in the trash. Worse, it prevents the message that life-saving health coverage is available to Americans who don’t have it. The deadline to sign up is Tuesday the 31st. I’d urge you to share the video as the more people sign up, the harder it will be for Trump, Ryan and co. to introduce inferior health plans that cover less and will result quantifiably in people dying, most of whom will be women, most of whom will be poor. Also, sharing the video will upset Trump and Ryan and their toadies, since they don’t want you to see it. And that’s as noble a goal as any. And most importantly, in the United States of America in the Year of Our Lord 2017, not having health insurance is a very, very bad idea that can lead to bankruptcy and/or death of your sexy body. SHARE THE VIDEO. GET INSURANCE.

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“when i say it’s you i like, i’m talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. that deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed.” - mister rogers

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Malcolm Gladwell on Protesting Princeton’s Racist Legacy

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Dave Henderson

On this date in 1986, Dave Henderson's 9th-inning HR helped Red Sox to an improbable win over Angels in Game 5 of ALCS Red Sox won in 7 pic.twitter.com/LcANqNZUCe

— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo)

October 12, 2016

After the Angels tied the game in the bottom of the 9th, Henderson drove in the game-winning run with a scarifice fly in the 11th:

Improbably, Henderson was involved in this play earlier in the game:

R.I.P., Hendu

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Merrimack River, Newburyport, MA

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Jim Jefferies on Gun Control

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Maudslay State Park, Newburyport, MA

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First Religious Society Church, Newburyport, MA

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The Many (Casual) Hats of Paul Simon

Hats have been on a long decline since the 1960s. It’s often said that John F Kennedy killed the hat industry when he failed to wear one to his inauguration – signaling to others that they were no longer fashionable. Neil Steinberg has a much more nuanced (and convincing) take in his book Hatless Jack. He attributes it to changing social norms and technology. In an age when informality gets equated with authenticity and self-expression, the fedora and its cousins can feel phony. 

Still, check out how great Paul Simon looks here. Most of these photos were taken in the 1970s and ‘80s – well into the anti-hat era. Obviously, it helps that Simon is famous, talented, and handsome (those things give you a ticket to wear anything). But it also helps that his hats are mostly casual. 

The most formal hat here is in shown in the fourth photo – the one where a mustachioed Simon is seeing wearing a (shirtless) v-neck sweater and trilby. Trilbies are traditionally country hats worn with tweed sport coats and tattersall shirts, making them less formal their homburg and fedora counterparts. 

These days, you can wear one with anything, although their rustic connotations make them better suited to the fall and winter seasons. See Pete in his Lock & Co. Rambler, Patrik Ervell sweater, and MHL mac; then our friend Bruce Boyer in the same company’s Voyager, tweed sport coat, and Alpha M-65. For similar hats at a more affordable price point, check out Yellow 108 and The Knottery. 

Simon’s other hats are even less formal. He wears bucket hats with grey tweeds and beat-up Army jackets, baseball caps with unstructured sport coats and tees, and floppy flat caps with peacoats and sweaters. My favorite, however, has to be the cadet he’s wearing in the last photo with a pinstripe suit. Much like David Hockney, Paul Simon was mixing sportswear with suits before they became menswear clichés. 

Stores such as Optimo are great for old-world classics such as the fedora and homburg, but if you’re going to wear a hat – consider starting with something more casual. Ebbets Field Flannels makes nice ballcaps, while Sublime and Lock & Co have good straw options. I also like Papa Nui’s naval caps, NY Hat Co’s bucket hats, JJ Hat Center’s Ivy caps, and this Western option at imogene + willie. Additionally, we have some fitted ballcaps made from premium materials. I like how our reader David customized his NY cap. 

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One could say this was just a calamitous strategic misread on the part of the Koch-brothers types. But another way to look at it is that this was the inevitable consequence of the basic dynamic of the party, which by the end was little more than a collection plate for global business interests that were, if not foreign exactly, certainly nationless.

There was a time in this country – and many voters in places like Indiana and Michigan and Pennsylvania are old enough to remember it – when business leaders felt a patriotic responsibility to protect American jobs and communities. Mitt Romney's father, George, was such a leader, deeply concerned about the city of Detroit, where he built AMC cars.

But his son Mitt wasn't. That sense of noblesse oblige disappeared somewhere during the past generation, when the newly global employer class cut regular working stiffs loose, forcing them to compete with billions of foreigners without rights or political power who would eat toxic waste for five cents a day.

Then they hired politicians and intellectuals to sell the peasants in places like America on why this was the natural order of things. Unfortunately, the only people fit for this kind of work were mean, traitorous scum, the kind of people who in the military are always eventually bayoneted by their own troops. This is what happened to the Republicans, and even though the cost was a potential Trump presidency, man, was it something to watch.

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Prince, Tom Petty, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne and others perform "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" at the 2004 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductions.

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Jim Jefferies on Gun Control

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