Good! November 1, 2025November 2, 2025 TOO GOOD Keith B: A while back, you used a phrase that caught my eye. Something along the lines of, “where has this been my whole life?” You offered up this bold statement of approval for the “food conservation” app, Too Good To Go. I decided to investigate. “We help users rescue good food from going to waste, offering great value for money at local stores, cafes and restaurants.” Well, I’m here to tell you: it’s true! For $6.99 you’ll typically get at least $21.99 worth of food — with one caveat: what you get is a surprise. It’s literally a “surprise bag” of food. That made me nervous (though you can flag issues such as food allergies). But I tried it. And soon the “surprise” element had become maybe the best part! It’s the perfect way to sample a place you’ve never tried or to get a sweet deal from one of your favorites. The app keeps track of my history. I’ve used it 27 times, visiting 8 different places – grocery store, coffee shops, pastry shops, bakeries, and a trendy pizza parlor – and have saved $340, while also avoiding CO2 equivalents equal to 12,447 smart-phone charges. One of my regulars is my local Susie Cakes. Not just because their staff is awesome and their food is outstanding, but the value that you get is incredible. One “surprise bag” contained an entire cake! A $60 value! For $6.99! Of course, this doesn’t happen all the time; but consistently, the value you receive is amazing. And there’s always room in the freezer. We’ve spread the word to friends who now tell delicious tales of their own. GOOD WIN BREAKING: Historic moment as 38-year-old openly gay Rob Jetten becomes Netherlands’ new Prime Minister after his party D66 crushed far-right leader Geert Wilders in a stunning election defeat. A powerful rebuke of authoritarianism and a win for democracy across Europe. THE PERFECT IS THE *ENEMY* OF THE GOOD Dustin Lance Black, Oscar winner for the Harvey Milk biopic, here implores idealistic young LGBT kids not to demand (what they see as) perfection. Under 3 minutes. Powerful. And his broader point could have applied equally well to the 97,488 wonderfully well-meaning Floridians who voted for Nader in 2000, even though they were well aware he could not possibly win. In doing so, because they believed Ralph was “better” than Al Gore — who was ultimately judged to have lost the state by 537 votes even though, counting the “overvotes,” he had won it by 45,000 — they threw the election to George W. Bush. Had they settled, instead, for merely “the good,” electing Gore, there would have been no war in Iraq, no Citizens United or gutted Voting Rights Act (the Supreme Court would have leaned left instead of right), no inequality-gaping tax cut for the mega-wealthy, less room for a demagogue to seize power . . . and on and on and on. It was the tragedy of all tragedies. All Nader’s idealistic followers would have had to do — and only those in swing states, at that! — was vote for the guy who shared most, just not all, their views. CHRIS JONES — TALK ABOUT GOOD! This ordained minister graduated at the top of his high school class, where he quarterbacked the football team; earned his BS in math and physics at Morehouse College, interning at NASA each summer; earned his masters at M.I.T. in nuclear engineering before getting his doctorate in urban planning; and ran for governor of Arkansas in 2022. He lost — but that set him up well for his run now to flip one of Arkansas’s 4 Congressional seats blue. (His wife of 22 years, mother of their three kids, was, among other things, a flight surgeon in Afghanistan.) The polls have it about even, but my money’s on Chris. A REALLY GOOD EXPLANATION OF YOUR AUTOMOTIVE FUTURE So fun (90 seconds). SPEAKING OF WHICH, GOOD QUESTIONS Does this 60 second jaw-dropper make you doubt whether Tesla will dominate the global electric vehicle market? Whether its shares are worth their current 312 times earnings? GOOD NIGHT Enjoy the extra hour tomorrow. Remember when clocks didn’t automatically Fall back and Spring forward?