We use the tax code as a form of social engineering. What is the difference between allowing someone to get a tax deduction for buying an energy efficient automobile and a government program that allows people who want to buy the car to get a "government handout" that can only be used towards that car?

I really don't understand.

Yes.

I am in a state that actually is getting a lot of jobs.

There is some reason to air a car chase or active shooter incident on local television, if only so that people can be aware not to leave their house or go to a certain part of town. Agreed that it shouldn't be a matter of watching to see what happens next but there were a few times that I had to be on lockdown at work…

I think because the third book was so rushed because it's hard to tell the story from Katniss point of view. Much of the story is people keeping things from Katniss and then her finding out later on. The movies have shown that they will show more than just Katniss perspective (I expect seeing a lot of Snow's view of…

I suspect the problem is that while you may see this advice as helpful, women don't because we have literally been raised our entire life being told these things. Imagine that every time you walked outside someone in your life said "oh, and be sure to look both ways before crossing the street. You know that there are…

No. You don't understand it.

Chewie isn't dead in episode 7. Peter Mayhew was announced to be returning to reprise the part. Chewie did die in the expanded Star Wars universe of book, and some people are speculating that the story will be based on the EU saga involving Jacen Solo turning to the dark side. But that is pure speculation and even if…

The only legitimate debate to come out of the column was the debate over why the hell George Will still has a job.

Exactly. The data might show that we can reject the null hypothesis, but we don't know if getting married makes women less likely to be abused or if women are just less likely to marry men who are abusive. Or if there is another factor which influences both marriage rates and rates of abuse (like wealth).

I respect students who show up and know their shit. I don't care how they are dressed or look. Someone can come in a professional outfit and spend the entire class on facebook. Someone else can be in sweats and actually read the material. A lot of slackers have learned that as long as they look the part they can fool…

The BSA is different from a university since there is a contractual relationship between the school and students, but not between scouts and the organization. This is a breech of contract suit, really. The plaintiff says that his contract with the school says that he can only be expelled if a certain type of hearing…

This isn't child abuse. It's just dumb. But an amusing type of dumb because it is the type of thing that took enough time that you'd think that she'd realize how dumb it was before going through with it.

My grandfather was told that our family came from Luxembourg. That was what he told us. It is what I always believed. Then my Aunt starts doing the family tree thing and finds out that we are German. I doubt my grandfather knew. The family came over around WWI and before he was born. He was raised with the lie and…

Oh, don't you know, we aren't incels. I actually tried to join a message board for "forever alone" people a few years ago and was told that because I'm a woman I could not be an incel because if anyone wanted to fuck me (even if it was someone I wasn't attracted to) then I wasn't really involuntarily celibate, I was…

They have it in my Chili's but they asked us not to use it (my social anxiety loves the idea of no human interaction) because it doesn't work well yet.

I'm not going to kink shame anyone. Whatever works for them. But I did have to once have something put in my urethra as part of a medical procedure (cytoscopy) and it was the most painful experience I ever had. I did it without any aesthetic because my doctor said that it wasn't any big deal. And going in wasn't that…

Sometimes I'm sad that I'm single. But if my options are single or in a relationship with a guy who was like the guy on this list it isn't even a close decision. (Of course the best case would be in a relationship with a guy not like the one on this list but until that guy comes along, it's better to be single than…

In order to make a discrimination claim you either have to show that you were subject to an adverse employment action which was motivated by discrimination or hostile work environment. Ames went with the adverse employment action claim because they didn't feel they had enough evidence for hostile work environment. So…