I'm this week's Slate's Political Gabfest listener chatter! I don't even think I felt this accomplished when I got my masters degree... slate.com/podcasts/pol...

Bigots have long insisted that homosexuals will cause the fall of humanity. Sam Altman, please don't prove the bigots right

People who Facetime in otherwise quiet waiting rooms shouldn't be allowed to vote

if the # of items you're buying is ≤ the number of minutes it takes you to buy them, you should lose your self-checkout privileges for, say, a month

If I never hear the phrase "waste, fraud, and abuse" again for the rest of my life, it'll be too soon.

Damn...

"The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall."
- Edward O. Wilson

Mohela's flute-forward 'on hold' music loop is designed to break my will

I have never heard the phrase "writ large" used correctly on a podcast