Those weren’t my arguments to adopt or reject; they’re just the arguments.

Sure.

Is the electoral college indefensible because of the winner-take-all system that 48 of the states have, or because you object to the way the number of state representatives is calculated?

Came for the pretty picture, stayed for the thoughtful take.

You have to help with an unbelievable slanted and negative media and have come out beautifully.

No kidding, right? This deal was thrashed as nonsensical for 3 straight shows on 98.5 (and it’s still going strong), but the beat guys were rationalizing it immediately, as if it’d been a foregone conclusion for weeks and they’d called it. Yeah, no.

Not shown: the accompanying, obligatory dildo

Wait, so let me get this straight — I have to endure years of endless bullshit about private emails, leaked emails, emails with little (C) marks...

This is a seriously underrated post. As an admittedly ignorant spectator who was watching the comment shitstorm unfold, I needed this explanation. (even if, in general, I think it’s... perplexing that anyone would get destroyed for suggesting a gawker site uses click-baity headlines lol).

No. Their gesture did say something of significance. It said that they understand that being a team means everyone acts in concert. It means respecting others’ opinions within the workplace such that differences can be resolved in a mutually agreeable manner. It means they understand their responsibility to do the…

I think the United States is still coming to grips with the hard-learned fact that secular tyranny is, against every grain of our patriotic upbrinings, practically the least-worst option in any of the giant swaths of middle-eastern land that we depend on greatly, but also fail to understand greatly.

Are we not going to acknowledge the Mad Max sunglasses and ferocious snarl going on in the right side of the picture?

Honestly, looks better than TFA. And I liked TFA just fine.

Would’ve thought this superlative might go to the Celtics.

Somebody say Papa Gino’s?

I retracted that assessment at 11:39am, acknowledging that I’m not qualified to make that characterization.

While not as extreme as taking the black, I think you’d be alarmed at the similarities. Most enlistees are barely adults. Some of these kids are seeking an escape from gangs. Abusive homes. Violent neighborhoods. Priors for statutory because they were 17 and their girlfriend was 15 or 16 or whatever. Assault. Drug…

My positions, to be clear:

Straw man much?

I’d be interested to hear your snark-less plan to sustain the all-volunteer force in the face of rampant national obesity and a generation of teens for whom 9/11 is an abstract concept and that grew up in a nation exhausted by two wars.