Coincidentally it’s also about as nuanced as “Girls”:

Yes, that’s exactly my response too. Although it would almost certainly lead to even more defunding for NOAA when Republicans were in office.

To be clear, that’s not even a question that the Pew study asked or what they reported. Many people (63%ish) said that climate research should be “a top priority” of NASA. There’s no evidence in the report that they ever even asked what should be “the top priority,” but I think based on the data that you might infer…

Maybe you missed this:

Without GPS or LTE this is effectively a brick. A “good deal” on a piece of shit is still a piece of shit.

Without GPS or LTE this is effectively a brick. A “good deal” on a piece of shit is still a piece of shit.

want that fucker to burn. I want to see his ass in an orange jumpsuit behind bars, because that is where he belongs.

Don’t forget the 76 cents. (and, yes, I wish my keyboard had a cent sign)

While I certainly don’t want to argue with your PhD in Economics, Libby, let me just say that the national debt is a slow-moving fucking train wreck that’s getting closer and closer, and everyone just wants to ignore it. You can say that Schultz’s concerns are “fear-mongering” and “economically illiterate.” That…

While that’s sort of true, the biggest issue is the fact that we don’t do very well at managing people with chronic conditions. Healthcare follows the 80/20 rule to a T. In fact it probably follows it even more; roughly 10% of the population accounts for 90% of the spending. There will also be trauma and unpreventable…

That’s not true. Rich business guys probably exhibit a distribution like everyone else. Some are very, very smart, and some (our current president) are dumb as fucking stones. That said, sorry rich business guy, Trump has ruined it for all of you.

While I don’t disagree, there is a huge difference between someone like Howard Schultz who basically built Starbucks from nothing and Donald Trump who inherited money and property, put many of his companies into bankruptcy, doesn’t know shit about shit, and is an orange fucking orangutan.

The appositive phrase, it can be your friend, or it can be your enemy.

Politics. NASA has never ever understood the concept of “sunk cost.”

Que? At this point they’re actively trying not to keep it.

At this point the space station is not an asset, it’s a liability (I mean this from an accounting standpoint). No one is going to pay NASA much (if anything) to take it over; more likely they are going to submit a bid for how much NASA will have to pay them to assume a suite of maintenance responsibilities. Maybe…

At this point, you have to have some twisted respect for Scott Pruitt. He’s not even trying to cover up the malfeasance. It’s just straight fucking graft all the time. It’s honestly impressive. I guess it makes me naive that I didn’t think that people that egregious really existed.

I once followed a big table of foreigners out (Germans, if I remember correctly) to ask if there was anything wrong. This was a fairly high-dollar, full-service restaurant, and they left nothing. They were fairly apologetic and gave me about 10%.

What?

I’d take that ALS Association article a lot more seriously if they were forthcoming with the statistics about the prevelance of ALS in the population at large. Among white men in their 60s, it’s somewhere around 20 per 100K (.02%). They do represent fairly honestly that there is currently no definitive scientific link…

Just so we’re clear, those air force planes were not designed for a useful life of anywhere near 50 years. At this point that none of the active B-52s has any original part—including 100% of the airframe. (and as an aside, the survivability of a B-52 in a conflict where the US doesn’t have 100% air superiority would…