How about we play the game where you pull your head out of your ass and try behaving like a decent human being?

But the present is the best thing ever, by a large margin, for the greatest number of people on the planet by any objective measurement. That's not really up for debate.

For groups of people, though: industrial workers might prefer Fordism to austerity. Political radicals might prefer the pre-1989 (or even pre-1968) landscape.

It's easy to imagine groups of people for whom other periods of history would be preferable.

Which part did I overstate? By any objective measurement, we live in the most peaceful, prosperous, and learned time in human history, and there isn't a close 2nd choice.

It just drives me crazy whenever I see people bemoaning the state and direction of the world.

Yeah, what's with the current generation of kids that invented sexual assault?

Obviously her works in the of season, but I doubt this much.

The world isn't going to shit. It's better for more people than its ever been in the history of ever.

Lyle's Achewater.

The Enigma wasn't a code breaking machine. It was the code keeping machine used by the Germans.

i just don't think that a league with any sort of 'class', where one individual can't be paired against any other given individual in the league, is a sport.

i just don't think that a league with any sort of 'class', where one individual can't be paired against any other given individual in the league, is a sport.

It's a good thing NFL fans are so cultured and intelligent, isn't it? I mean, I'm sure a smart guy like you who obviously has no time for the great unwashed mma fans would never be interested in a sport followed by thugs and idiots, would you?

aren't they dangerous in the first place?

Wait, he clears the "effective on the field" bar this season?

It's not for "some reason," it's because eliminating weight classes in combat sports produces non-competitive, and often dangerous, matches. It's not a matter of opinion you can disagree with. Combat sports don't work, as a general rule, without weight classes.

I'm sure that sounded a lot more clever in your head.

If you say GSP won you know nothing of MMA.

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