You’re a far more patient man than me. That guy is so dense I had to take my anger with him out on the innocent

Super wrong. Produce is the only aisle where you get to touch the actual thing that you’ll be eating. You’d rather go stare at some bloody meat? I say this a someone who would rather eat the meat, but the aesthetics of a butchered, dead animal do leave something to be desired.

Football helmets crashing used to get me fired up, but now I immediately think, “There’s another concussion” and bums me out.

If I was blind I would love going to hockey games for the sounds alone. It’s not just the skates gliding off frozen water, it’s the crunching hits, the atonal chime of the puck hitting the post, Sidney Crosby whining to the refs - all beautifully accented by the echo produced off the ice.

Ping of the puck going off the post woulda been my number one. When I played I almost liked hitting the post as much as actually scoring.

I would too. I will have to ask around at our local farm stands and natural grocery stores.

Generally not at any grocery store. Your best bet is to seek out a local farmer who handles their own raising and butchering of chickens/pigs/cows/whatever. If you don’t live within a decent distance of a farm or farmer’s market, then you’re pretty well screwed.

Exactly. I was just going to bring up “welfare queens” and then I saw your post. Wish more people understood how all of this is just an attempt to demonize the poor for political gain.

Mr. Chaffetz, at long last, have you left no sense of decency?

“Let them eat cake”

Exactly. As if the cost of a phone plan would cover premiums—let alone prescriptions and co-pays.

Or to put it another way,

I had a pre-existing condition when I started my last job. My insurer sent a letter saying that they wouldn’t cover any conditions that existed within the 18 months prior to when I started, even though I was on employer provided coverage. That was no longer the case once ACA became law.

If you have access to the internet by some other means, such as the library or a home PC or laptop, a smartphone is not a necessity. However, if you want to get a job or go to school in today’s world, you need internet access. Many poor people find smartphones are the least expensive way to get that access.

As soon as you let me know where I can buy a health insurance plan for the $30 I spend per month on my cell phone plan, I’ll sign right up (not really, I have it through my wife’s job).

Why do we accept his statement that all these poor people are running around with iphones as the truth? Plus, as someone else mentioned, many have whatever phone they have because it comes with their phone plan or comes at a reduced price. The only reason I have an iphone is because I get a “free” one when I reup my…

I think if you believe this discussion is actually about the necessity of a smartphone you’re a chump.

I don’t worry about the military, but I do worry about an awful lot of law enforcement officers. Nobody loves fascism more than cops.

I don’t think most of them care whether he is factually wrong (deep down, I think they know Trump makes crap up). But Trump ran on a pro-big business, pro-gun, anti-immigrant, anti-brown people, anti-homosexual, anti-women, and anti-abortion platform. That means the Republicans will support him no matter what. …