Angeleno here. I’m sick too. It’s fucking May; what’s up with that?

“This is about ethics” was a master stroke.

Spoken like a person who never traveled more than 25 miles from the coastal Eloi portion of CA. CA is a humid shithole.

When you adjust for housing costs, CA is #1 for poverty rate.

Alternatively, kudos to her for negotiating that salary.

Pareene wrote:

i can’t believe you agrue for less knowledge...just can’t. i have no words...

To be fair, Jim Tomsula’s life tips this past year relayed to Drew’s Funbag/Jamboroo/whatever probably contributed to his survival.

Exactly. Ted Cruz is no dummy (at least, intellectually... emotional intelligence is another matter).

I reread your original comment (and it’s too late to edit this into my response) re: Boston being the most segregated city you’ve lived in and I think that’s baffling. If anything, Boston’s high number of universities stirs the mixing pot (a little). Want to see segregation? Here’s Milwaukee and Chicago. Detroit…

Braintree is pretty white, but Quincy’s Asian population is even more stark (at least to this outsider), thanks to density.

Here’s what a Boston demographic map looks like. It’s actually not that bad (comparatively). Like for instance, check out the nation’s capital.

Hmmm, pretty segregated but I’ve seen worse. Here’s a link to the map if you want to play around with it.

There’s some website that aggregated Census data into an interactive map so you can could see segregation by city. Some are quite stark!

Yes, the purity tests many on the left demand and impose are both wacky and deleterious to the cause (of getting progressive politicians elected and therefore enacting progressive legislation).

I mean, that’s a fair question and would seemingly look much better from a PR perspective.

I think it’s a fine lesson that the presidency doesn’t control all the levers of power (thankfully – I think?). Hell, even Obama’s landmark legislation (ACA) that was passed when the democrats controlled Congress is being actively attacked and dismantled; legislation that barely squeaked by the Supreme Court. To say…

Quick intro: I’m liberal as hell.

“Ben Carson is a doctor” seems like a good reply to “not a doctor”For actual medical advice, I’d probably trust this person’s non-doctor chiropractor more.

I’m a USC/Seahawks homer.