you think usmnt soccer players check their work emails more often than people with regular desk jobs? i wold have thought the opposite.

are they also capping college tuition? or replacing all private loans with government grants? because otherwise, we’re just going to have a new crop of loans next year.

the downside there is that it would be used as a wedge to undermine pensions for other municipal employees more widely. the right would *love* to be able to renege on deal agreed to long ago to provide public employees with retirement benefits, and anything that allows for raiding pension funds is an opening for them…

“So they should just do nothing and let kids vape?”

“there’s plenty of science to back up the deleterious effects of substance abuse.”

unfortunately “super bald eagles” just doesn’t quite flow off the tongue...

dude, you are not the editor. write a piece your own self if you think it needs coverage so bad.

“The trees that the Guardian of The Forest was in charge of were the Truffula trees in Thneedville.”

nick, your take is beyond dumb.

englisher than you are, dude.

you’re definitely right that no democratic republic can set up protocols to deal with an uninformed, disengaged, selfish voting public.

concur. i proposed the same re: thomas on 3.8, and would also support impeaching kavanaugh for lying to congress.

paul, it’s clear that you’re in favor of this court packing plan since you describe it as one of those institutional reforms that likely need to happen for the democrats’ agenda to become reality.

“that doesn’t mean there aren’t members of his administration who don’t want the American public to get reading.”

meetings are really all he has to work with. the buck stops with the mayor on this issue, the comptroller doesn’t have the authority to tell the agencies what to do.

“Others said that while Stringer’s efforts to grade city departments’ progress are laudable, there are no real consequences when those agencies do not comply with the comptroller’s recommendations on diversity...

nobody actually needs to eat animals at this point, so (a) i don’t see how choosing to use dead animal carcasses for fashion is worse than choosing to use them for food, and (b) i don’t think anyone who does choose to eat dead animals has any standing to criticize someone else for wearing fur.

“The fur trade has at its core a violence toward animals that is antithetical with our modern views on animals as human companions and sentient beings.”

to me (a) the chef is being ridiculous, but (b) it’s his restaurant so if you don’t like it don’t go there.

i shall.