Pretty sure the discrepancy is that salaries are not the same as total compensation. I wouldnt doubt that his salary increased that much while his stock options etc. (which likely account for over half of what he actually gets paid) may have stayed roughly the same.

I think that Dan and Serv-Bot are exceptions that prove the rule?

In my experience, most people under 40 dgaf about Clinton. Most of my friends are left-leaning and they have said as much. I am 100% fine with locking up all of the criminals and barring them from running for office or even voting - to include Bill and 45 as well.

Mall employees are usually at least 18 years of age. It is the patrons we should worry about.

Pretty sure that was a comment on the current state of US politics, foreign policy and world affairs, not about Franken specifically (that was the “at least have out principles” part)

Serious question - why are you a conservative?

My ostensibly smart, conservative friends say it is because they are “fiscally conservative,” but I havent actually seen any cogent economic policy from the GOP that remotely reflects that ideal in my lifetime (over a third of century). Their economic policy does nothing…

While that likely plays a factor, their disparate levels of their fame was probably a large factor .

Masterson will never be as big a star as Spacey is/was. CoS also has a way of making stories disappear as they are prone to make all sorts of legal - and perhaps extralegal - threats, especially on behalf of their…

As someone who was raised and lived there for some of my adult years, this statement is painfully accurate.

As someone that was raised in AL, but has lived plenty of other places in the US, the evangelical component is pretty well confined to the southeast. Yes there are evangelicals everywhere, but not in such ridiculous concentrations. They are a very big part of why AL will never rise above 47th in measures of education,…

This ignores the constitution, federal legislation and lots of case law.

Sure churches could do all that crap, but only if they PAY TAXES. I would support that 100%.

Coates>>>>West, even in his prime. It is not even remotely close, even if West paved the way for writers like Coates.

The first part may be true, the second part almost certainly is not.

I wish that were not the case, but these things do take time - and states’ AG have only just now sent out subpoenas to Trump businesses. We have to remember that if Mueller only builds a federal case that Trump may pardon himself - even if the…

I keep seeing this all the time, and the pedant in me just cannot deal...

Reigns (!=) Reins. We are talking about these things as if they are carriages after all.

Raising the cost of living for everyone, especially renters, while also increasing property taxes for longtime residents - many of whom are on fixed incomes, or lack further opportunity tends to piss people off.

Pretty sure that the company is based in Aspen, not Denver even though this happened in Five Points. Denver and some of its residents have plenty of issues, but I would imagine Aspenites- who have a reputation for being wealthy, out of touch idiots - would be even more prone to this type of behavior.

I actually believe that chances go up quickly if the bill doesnt pass. Seems like lots of congress is just trying to use him as a tool to pass their fiscally irresponsible tax plan that is a huge boon for their donors and basically no one else (including the majority of their constituency).

Once they realize that he is…

Great arguments! Ad hominem is the best way to convince people that you are a respectable authority on the matter.

However, it is really weird that you think that we can fix perpetual problems that predate the industrial revolution BEFORE we could pass widely supported polices (90%+ among Republican voters) like…

People make this stupid argument ad nauseum... Basically you are saying that we have to fix the nigh impossible before we even begin to address what is clearly a pressing issue.

We are “the greatest nation in the history of the world” according to so many, why wouldn’t be able to deploy our resources in such a way…

People can make all sorts of controlled substances, bombs and god knows what else (including just about any sort of computer crime) in their garages. Do you think that that somehow means that we should legalize that activity as well, because that is the crux of his whole argument.

But yeah, I guess you are right about…

People can build bombs in their garages too, and no one is in some hurry to legalize selling them. Your argument also ignores the impossibility of scaling that, and the huge inconvenience it presents.

It is almost as if making these things illegal would present significant barriers to possession for bad actors…