Police are generally awful in so many ways, but they're a good example of the importance of strong unions.

(points at Craig)

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"Shoots through the roof" wouldn't mean much around here, as the COL is remarkably low. Housing especially is insane, as we never had much of a bubble in the last run. Hell, I bought a 3BR2B house 15 minutes from dahntahn in one of the better/best school districts in the area for $120K back in the mid 00's, and I…

Versailles France vs. Versailles, Pennsylvania (Which yinzers pronounce Ver-sails with a long A) would be in contention, at least in the French category.

My grandfather was at Guadalcanal in the pacific, and my great aunt and uncle worked on The Manhattan project, she in Tennessee and he at Los Alamos. He was a Physics Ph.D. and we still have a good picture of him and Oppenheimer together.

I see someone else is a fan of The State, and their "Aquaman, you go talk to some fish" sketch.

Look, everyone wants to be more like Germany, but do we really have the pure strength of will?

Force-choke a bitch.

Are we still doing phrasing?

I was worried watching his soul ripped from his body during the election night special. That was some intense on-air pain. He seems a bit better now, but those cracks might run deep.

Pale in this context meaning a decaying green.

Ugh, fuck that. That show can get bent.

(points at moron)

Fuck that noise.

God damn, do I hate hearing from anyone in recovery.

How dare you fat shame Hostages by tangentially linking it to that mess of editorials.

You(plural) continue to underwhelm your long-term readers.

Eh, I don't want to get sucked into an online game. I did enough high end heroic raids through a couple WoW expansions not to want to go back down that wormhole. If they could put out a decent console RPG of it though I'd be in.

That game got the natural evolution of turn based RPGs about perfect. Variable party, combination abilities and easy combat macros, easily managed sidequests, and enough variation in enemies/weaknesses to keep things interesting without being overly reductive about it.