Which brings up the epistemological question of why we believe that Amtrak is more competent than the MTA.

Donald Trump Memorial Mausoleum? Burying him under the Hudson would be perfect. The sooner the better.

I say this as an erstwhile Republican, but Republicans and Trump supporters have lost the right to ever say “tax and spend” again. They have ignored the debt for so long (and don’t even really pay lip service to it anymore), that when the economy collapses in 2035 because interest on the debt requires 65% of the…

First of all, THAAD is not a boost phase interceptor. The “T” stands for Terminal, which is the final phase as a missile comes back down from space (the apex of its flight).

Read what I posted. I don’t deny that THAAD might be able to knock down a ballistic missile or two. Of course there’s that issue with the fact that it’s never actually been tested when the interceptors didn’t know in advance the approximate time and direction of the test launch.

It’s not any scarier than ballistic missiles. Shh, I’m going to let you in on a little secret, missile defense doesn’t work. It doesn’t work in boost phase. It doesn’t work in midcourse. It doesn’t work in terminal phase. It may be able to shoot down a single missile if we know it’s coming. It has no chance against…

Maybe, but we’ve moved on. We’re just fracking Russia to death. At $40/bbl, Russia can’t afford basic services let alone fancy new nukes.

How about we leave it to science rather than whatever your preconceived notions are? Nicotine and tobacco are not the same thing. Modern studies no longer use smoking as a proxy for nicotine ingestion.

Yeah, it’s a racial issue.

Riiight. Because if you’re in favor of players getting paid, you should be in favor of a system where there are no regulations, where players are exploited by street agents, where big business (lawyers and agents) takes advantage of them instead of the universities, and where organized crime is almost certainly…

It doesn’t necessarily taste bad, but the texture is way off versus ice cream that isn’t loaded with gums and emulsifiers. Sometime look at a melted spoonful of Ben and Jerry’s vs. a melted spoonful of Haagen Dazs. The B&J loses very little of its volume or thickness. It’s disconcerting, but Unilever food chemists…

Yup. It’s more expensive when you use cream in your ice cream instead of seaweed (carageenan) and shoe polish thickener (locust bean gum).

Let’s talk about Ben & Jerry’s though. Unilever has cheapened the product and the brand to a point where it should longer be considered “premium” ice cream. The stuff is loaded with gums (locust bean, xanthan, guar) and emulsifers (lecithin and carageenen) and gets worse the more “add-ins” you have. It uses a lower…

Fuk u. Do me.

who need to be told what ying and yang are

I think the Cubs would gladly give Arrieta or Darvish $30 million/year for 3 years. They just don’t want to get stuck for 5 years.

Girl Scouts have been selling outside of Colorado dispensaries for years. I don’t know if that’s also been “illegal” or if there are separate rules in separate regions.

Yes, it’s just like the “Yale Dental School” story below this one—except for that troubling little fact that Yale doesn’t have a dental school.

Right, he “linked” to it, so there’s no need to present the actual facts in his own article.

Forget it. He’s rolling