I want to point out that for many of these teachers, the (needed) pay raises are important to them, but almost secondary to the funding increases for the schools themselves.

The conditions in many of these schools has a toe on the far side of unsuitable for habitation, with mold in the air and on many surfaces, damage…

Wait, are we talking about the sex cult or the White House? Because that could be either one.

I don’t know if you meant it that way, but your comment kind of sounds snobby. TMBG started doing kids albums because they had kids. And I don’t know if you’ve listened to any of them, but they put the same level of effort into them as any of their adult stuff.

It’s the same reason a lot of big name actors sign on to…

Absolutely. I’m sure people told him decades ago he looked like a potato head. He’s had plenty of time to find some way to change that, but instead he just embraced the pastiness.

Do you think he’ll give them his canned response?

I think the thing we should focus on (since it’s most likely to infuriate Drumpf) is that it clearly isn’t Go Time for him unless you make him think of Ivanka.

When I was a kid, you could count the number of computers in the entire school on two hands. Until high school, and then a friend and I figured out how to play Mac Trek and Robosport over the printer network. We did it after school though.

What if she broke up with him? Isn’t that possible?

Even the warzone mentality is bullshit because most of the time rules of engagement constrain soldiers so they’re not allowed to fire unless fired upon.

I started the first episode because of Matt Smith, I kept watching because of Claire Foy. If not for her, I would have stopped because Smith is infuriating (or maybe Phillip is infuriating and Smith is really good, but I’m still left infuriated).

Sorry, I was an RIT slob. :)

As optimistic as the upstate tech businesses are, they’ll need to start delivering for things to really turn around. As a college resident of Rochester who went back home to Maine, seeing all the commercials for huge tax breaks there terrifies me even without looking deeply into how much things are leveraged through…

Now see... if it had actually been one of these I’d have a lot less problem paying taxpayer money for it.

If things weren’t such a pain to find on Slate, I’d link you a great short article from a former soldier who went into detail on the specific idea of letting former soldiers take up guard duty. He crushingly rebuts the notion, pointing out only a fraction of a fraction of soldiers have the sort of close fire training…

Just because most of the WH positions are still unfilled (or have since emptied) doesn’t mean you get to crow about the male/female ratio, GOP.

Now if they’d said more women have quit, then I’d believe them.

Own that joke. Wear it with pride.

It’s only winnable for as long as Oregon leaves the law as-is. They can relatively easily carve out a ‘dangerous item’ exception that allows retailers to make selling decisions for things that can lead to harm.

And even then, it’s only winnable on paper. There’s zero chance this will get through the court and be ruled…

They don’t actually care if you get the gun from someone else. They implemented this because they don’t want the PR hit from a “Mass shooter bought his rifles at Wal-Mart/Dick’s” This policy isn’t about trying to stem the tide of mass shootings, it’s about them not wanting to be responsible for one in the court of…

Noise differences aside, if I were truly local instead of just in the same region (I live in Maine), I’d be objecting simply based on the fact that over the last 20 odd years they’ve closed nearly a half dozen AFB and NAS in NH and ME that I can think of off the top of my head.

It irks me that they did some serious…

The only thing I’d point out is Obama has made jokes on the subject, and I’m sure the right will quickly cling to those as their defense. Thing is, the one’s I recall Obama making were along the lines ended with “You people are crazy” or “Michelle would kill me” which of course in a normal universe would make them…