It’s a bad bet. Nobody has ever succeeded at impeaching a president. Doing it and failing makes Democrats much more likely to lose in 2020 than if they don’t do it at all. I hate that this is true, but it is.

It’s called “Shitty Republican pro-capitalist, anti-consumer, anti-regulation legislation gets you the Worst of Both Worlds in the classical sense”. We get to have BOTH snake-oil and overpriced, dangerous, legitimate drugs.

I find it interesing that caffeinated drinks are the same way, at least in terms of the caffeine dose varying like that.  It can’t be coincidence.  Ground coffee and chocolate are pretty consistent but soda and others are all over the place?  And now e-cig liquid, too?

You can always ratchet down the nicotine by buying one strength lower every time you reorder or refill.  Several of my friends have done that with success.  Well, success in that they now use the lowest-nicotine oil they can find.  I don’t think any of them have stopped completely, unfortunately.

Does the type matter?  Red, white, yellow, and Vidalia are all very distinct in terms of taste.

Too many old, slimy, half-rotten, over- or under-ripe, cheap-ass slices on sandwiches and in salads may be the driving force. I couldn’t stand tomato on a sandwich or in a salad until I finally had a decent enough experience with high-quality fruit that I realized I’d been getting cheap garbage all along.

Counterpoint:  onions are sulfurous, poisonous, stinky and only food by the technicality of being edible.

You wouldn’t know it from how many times, places, and circumstances onions (and vast, seemingly nonsensical portions of them) are a mandatory, unremovable option in food. Like sandwich shops that keep a big pile of steak on the grill for steak sandwiches... and don’t keep one with onions and one without, just one with…

At what point do we stop accepting mandatory misery as “normal life”?

It’s not impolite to hold someone accountable for their speech, especially inflammatory and misleading propaganda delivered in a public forum.

Smells like a triple-threat to me. The DNC is tired of an actual progressive so they’re gunning for her. They’re apparently still in the “subtle” stages. We’ll see vicious lies leaked to Faux News and Russian troll farms by the end.

Why is an admission like “God inspired me to write and/or sign this legislation” not a clear enough breach of federal law, specifically the Establishment Clause of the 1st Amendment, to immediately trigger both a lawsuit to strike down said law and impeachment proceedings against the lawmaker or executive in question?

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I don’t care if 3 billion profit is a margin of 0.01% on total revenue. If they made $3 billion more than they spent in a single year, and their employees are suffering, they can do better by them. They can do better right up until they’re $1 in the black, and anything else is lying, disingenuous One Percenter, Nuveau…

It’s even worse than it looks.  Most types of airline fees are considered “cost recovery” and therefore not taxable revenue.  So look forward to paying $500 in fees for a $200 fare in the near future, and then wondering why public infrastructure and services are falling apart.

They had it right once. You could configure what you wanted and stick to it.

But clearly, school funding is completely adequate and lazy, unionized teachers are to blame. And possibly immigrants. We’re not sure how but we feel that pretty strongly...

Those sorts of things absolutely do not happen to “clean cut white guys.” White guys with long hair, prison tattoos, driving with no shirt on, maybe. But no sober, well-groomed, fully-dressed white person has ever been drawn on and screamed at for a freaking temporary tag, I’m sorry. It just beggars belief.

That’s because restaurants in the U.S. are often quite ludicrous with their overcharging. They pay the staff starvation wages, garnish tips illegally for all sorts of BS, charge through-the-roof prices for simple dishes (i.e. this $0.50 cents worth of pasta with $2 worth of additional ingredients cost me another $2 in…

Hell, I got side-eye in Austria for ordering coffee with my meal, instead of afterward. In retrospect, that was a little philistine of me, but still. It’s not like I ordered red wine with fish! I was 17 for Christ’s sake!