He’s saying most people won’t refuse a breathalyzer when they HAVEN’T been drinking. I don’t know about you, but I’m not going to take a one year suspension of license when I haven’t been drinking.

I actually don’t think it’s specifically capitalism. Capitalism places a value on everything. If somebody has paternity leave offered to them and they decline, then what they’re saying is that they value their time at work more than they value their time at home. Now, it is very likely the case that somebody who…

Go easy on him. It was his first critique. His subsequent critiques are said to be much more substantial.

I’m going to be that guy and tell you I think you’re mistaken. I have a good friend who would agree with you. The issue is that he’s forever waiting to be proven wrong about his inherent negativity. It’s self-fulfilling. I believe his negativity greatly limits the possibility of positive outcomes in his life.…

You’re not describing negative thinking. You’re describing realistic thinking. The truly negative people I know are as delusional as the magical-thinkers.

Or how about the possibility that when a good comedian put out a mediocre show, that doesn’t mean they suck now and forever. Good bands put out bad albums. It happens. It’s not a foregone conclusion that they’re going to suck from now on.

In a country where guns are legal and plentiful, there will always be exceptions. Many lives would be saved if certain people didn’t have access to handguns. I hate guns and wouldn’t care at all if they were banned, but that is not going to happen in this country. The realistic best-case scenario is one in which…

I agree. There are parts of his philosophical schtick that I find immature or unnecessary, but the humor holds up. The idea that Hicks sucks because he was vaguely libertarian might be the saddest thing I’ve ever read. What a world.

Digging is great. Connecting a bunch of dots in a way that rivals the average 9-11 Truther is not digging. It’s 100% fake news, and those who are knowingly doing it without respect for the truth are doing all of us an incredible disservice.

It comes uncomfortably close to the right’s criticism of Obama. Instead of criticizing the things he was actually doing as president, they called him an African-born muslim extremist.

Thank you for this article. Its unsurprising but sad to see some liberals going down the conspiracy drain in these troubled times. It’s probably human nature, but the comparison to the right’s take on the Obama years is the same.

This is how I’ve been eating for six months, and I count calories as well. A lot of people rightly point out that the alleged benefits of intermittent fasting in this way may be incidental, but to me, they miss the far larger point: Psychologically, intermittent fasting is about as easy as long-term calorie…

As the proud parent of two self-entertaining children, the beauty is in the training. By simply never responding to their demands for organized activity, they eventually figured out themselves. Same way I learned.

This is well-put and makes me sad. It is completely out of style to see beyond the tip of your own nose.

I have disliked this internet-man and his e-brand for as long as I knew he existed. Somebody I trust told me to stick with him, so I watched a ton of content from this guy. I am beginning to suspect that some twenty-somethings lack a vacuous uncreative moron douche-dar when it comes to this brand man. If I could go…

Certainly some it has to do with the embarrassed millionaires who could use all of that government support but would rather buy into the fairy tale that they’re gonna start up the old mill again.

In the city where I grew up, the area population is more than 250,000 but they had no taxi infrastructure at all. Calling a taxi there meant waiting up to two hours for it to arrive, and paying an outrageous rate to boot. This was because calling a taxi = calling the driver’s house, waking them up, they get ready,…

Where in God’s name do you get the impression from my post that I am anti-development? There is nothing free market about preventing development.

I’ll take what I can get with McCain. He’s 80, he’s never going to have to win another election, and he’s speaking out against the president. If he can convince some other R’s to do the same, it’ll better than nothing, which is roughly what we have to work with right now.

This is correct. That is not the Animal, who would have been a teenager when this film was made.