The Gall of Ted Cruz Never Ends

It's been a stunning week for Republican bad faith. If you have trouble reading this message, view it in a browser.       If Pure Gall Ever Becomes an Energy Source, I Want the Drilling Rights to Senator Cancun   You have to give the Biden administration enormous credit for standing by Neera Tanden's nomination to be its Budget Director. (Why that job even is Senate-confirmable at all is another topic for another day.) She may not be confirmed, but the administration is demonstrating quite clearly that it is not going to be bullied, that it is not going to cut and run like previous Democratic administrations have in the face of conservative Republican fauxtrage. It's also been a stunning week for Republican bad faith in a lot of different areas. And then there's Ted Cruz—this is not going to be an unusual introductory sentence as we go along. Ted, who voted to put Ben Carson at the head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and to put billionaire ignoramus Betsy DeVos in charge of the Department of Education, and to put trial lawyer Alex Azar in charge of the Department of Health and Human Services, is now very concerned about the professional qualifications of Xavier Becerra, the nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services who also is…wait for it…a trial lawyer. Here's Charles P. Pierce on the neverending gall of the Texas Senator. Read More           The Highly Covetable, Statement-Making Q-Timex 'Cola' Just Got Even More Affordable   The styling on the Huckberry x Timex "Cola" sport watch differentiates it from its fizzy forbear, though. Instead of a 50/50 color split on the bezel, this time around you've just got red running from the top of the hour to the 20-minute mark. That, plus a crosshair dial, gives the watch a more military-inspired vibe. Better yet—the watch first debuted this past fall, but there's never been a better time to get one for yourself, since Huckberry just knocked 30 percent off the price tag. Considering the overall affordability of Timex in general, that means you've got one hell of a deal on your hands. So, what's someone to do with all this information? Well, clicking over to Huckberry and filling that cart would be a good place to start. Read More           Our 15 Favorite Online Furniture Stores Will Let You Live Out Your Home Design Dreams   A hypothetical situation: After four years of crashing on twenty-semesters-used bunk beds, handmewaydown twin frames, dumpster-dived platforms, and a mattress on a bare floor, you graduated college and prepared yourself for an adult life of good living. Then, some number of years passed—maybe three, maybe thirty—and it occurred to you that you haven't exactly achieved the home-owning or apartment-renting dream. That couch you're sitting on was the cheapest at Ikea, that bedframe came secondhand on Facebook Marketplace, and you up and bought the dining set after about two seconds of consideration at Target. And once you got them, you never really considered replacing them. Or, maybe, you've always loved online shopping for furniture. Whatever the reason, we've gathered up our 15 favorite online furniture stores for you to digitally meander through, from the affordable to the luxurious. Refer to this list, which is more or less arranged in order of price point (low to high), when you want a new desk or a new bedroom set or an accent piece of yet-undiscovered functionality, and you can leave your dumpster-diving days behind you. Read More           Why We Cheat: An Honest Appraisal   "Every time I meet a married woman, I think about the things she does that likely annoy her husband," writes Lisa Taddeo in an exclusive piece for members of Esquire Select. "I think a great deal about the evanescence of sexuality. The marrow missing from the bone. That's what I want to know. If you're going to wreck some other person's world, what's the good thing you're going to get?" Here, Taddeo offers an honest appraisal of infidelity. Read More           Sweat Shorts Were Made for These In-Between Times—and These Are the Best   Is there any piece of clothing more suited to this peculiar moment than the sweat short? The humble hybrid of two wardrobe staples from opposite ends of the weather spectrum is practically made for the weird in-between temperatures we're about to experience. Forget the days of fiddling for hours on end to find that sweet spot of at-home climate control—sweat shorts are here to save your ass regardless of how hot or cold you tend to run. They're as comfortable and easy to slip into as the best pair of sweatpants in your regular rotation, while providing all the cooling benefits of your summeriest pair of shorts. The sweat short is a certified game-changer. So instead of counting down the days to the official start of Shorts and Hoodie Season, cop a pair of shorts made out of the same fabric as your favorite hoodie and have it both ways. Here are some of the best options available now. Read More           The Best Watches Under $100 You Can Score on Amazon   Call it the hopeless romantic in me, but there's something reassuringly analog about glancing down at your wrist to tell the time, instead of pulling out a phone you'll lose yet another half hour to cruising through a meme aggregation account you couldn't avoid checking. Short of clocking the sun's movement in the sky, there's few habits that so resolutely ground a man in the here and now, a handsome reminder that life inevitably goes on, even if it sometimes feels like one long blur. (And by sometimes I mean, of course, all the time.) Thankfully, you no longer need to be a hotshot scion of inherited wealth—or, hell, an overnight GameStop millionaire—to scoop the watch of your dreams. Because thanks to Amazon's hefty selection of affordable timepieces, you can now snag some of the best watches around for well under a hundred bucks, or about a tenth of what the newest iPhone will cost you at retail. The choice is an easy one, really. Sure, Amazon might not be the first name that comes to mind when you think of top-of-the-line timepieces, but The Everything Store's horology game is no laughing matter. I'm talking an enviable selection of styles from big names like Timex and Seiko, plus an excellent supply of harder to find brands, too. Scroll through below to see all the styles worth ditching your phone for, and then make moves—fast. Clock's ticking, folks. Read More         Read More on Esquire.com       Follow Us     Unsubscribe  Privacy Notice   esquire.com ©2021 Hearst Communications Inc. All Rights Reserved. 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