I guess the piece I’m missing is how the hell an ethics professor misses the red lights on this situation. Even setting aside the questions surrounding facilitated communication - it generally tells you what you want to hear and varies based on the facilitator - consent among people with developmental disabilities is…

If you look at polling, there’s little to no support for shutting the government down for the sake of Dreamers. This isn’t 1965 where LBJ could acknowledge the future loss of the South over civil rights but know he was going to be compensated for it with other voter’s loyalty and spin it as a way to tamp down racial…

They actually can’t hire any people they feel like for most positions. Most Cabinet and top sub-cabinet jobs require Senate confirmation. Most jobs in government as a whole are merit hires (ahtough one of the problems for Federal workers right now is Trump was so slow to nominate people for vital but lower level…

2 hours - 5 in 2 hours is a lot (1 per 24 minutes). That’s not getting drunk, that’s getting hammered.

20-30% gun owners (can’t be certain because our data sucks)- 38000 gun deaths (we think)

The over 35 stat is the one that is really misleading - you are talking about an age co-hort (35 to death) that represents the vast majority of the adult population, and a behavior that a number of people might indulge only a few times a year yet in the aggregate represent a massive number (weddings, Christmas…

5 in 2 hours is also a waste of flavorful beer. You aren’t enjoying the effort that went into the craft at that rate - you are plowing through them. 5 Natty Ice’s in 2 hours though - that’s understandable to me, just because after the 3rd sip it all tastes like water.

First of all since only between 20-30% of Americans own firearms yet there were 38000 firearm related deaths in 2016, whereas in that same year over 70 percent of Americans drank and there were 88000 deaths, the numbers are pretty similar in terms of the public health hazard each poses.

What are we ignoring Tiffany (again)?

While this may be a first for climate science, it really isn’t that unusual in cases in Federal Court involving science and technology. Judges don’t have great backgrounds in science, and trying to digest the briefs when both sides are using PhDs who tend to write like they are briefing other academics can sow a lot…

The Browns had multiple seasons with All Pros at Center in Alex Mack, All World at LT in Joe Thomas, and for a while Mitchell Schwartz at RT (all Rookie in 2013, signed by KC for big money after 3 years). Mack’s busted leg in 2014 meant they only played 2 years together but still, the Browns consistent shittiness…

You want to find out how ACORN operates, do an audit. As a recipient of government funds, the government absolutely has a right to go in and do both financial and performance audits.

Because Republicans in Congress seized on faked evidence as an excuse to ram it through as a rider on appropriations. It took the subsequent investigation - after ACORN was already destroyed - to reveal that PV was full of shit and had broken the law.

Can second - some of the baseball guys who dabbled in football were gigantic assholes. They would actually brag about getting under a coach’s or player’s skin and then dropping an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on them. I’d much rather have a kid who knew how not to get in trouble in the yard on my crew.

For me, I left after 2 years of doing football games because of issues with my son’s health, but I was already eying the exit. Mainly because the only way to work up the ladder was to work Pop Warner games, which I hated for everything from the head trauma in little kids to the way too invested parents to the coaches…

Welcome to America. Land of the free, home of the incarcerated.

Yes - in the grand tradition of actually decent ideas that could work, the first time anything goes wrong the NIMBY brigade will kill it.

That’s the job he thought he was running for. So like a toddler he’s going to push the boundaries - and because the GOP leadership is incredibly weak/owned by a mixture of the Koch Brothers/Sheldon Adelson/NRA money and that Freedom Caucus lunatics they won’t push back. The only good news is it looks like his act is…

Heller doesn’t know shit. There were a bunch of crazy claims about how Gorsuch would trigger him to retire because Gorsuch was his clerk, but Gorsuch is a doctrainare ass and Kennedy hasn’t exactly been in a rush to go along with him. Heller just hopes to motivate the GOP because he’s boned.

Veteran’s Day/Armistice Day is on a Sunday this year, and as it always does will be right after the election, so that would be my guess.