I’m wondering if it’s at least partially from a change in school population. I know that if I lived in Flint and had kids, I’d be looking to move

Don’t forget, there was a European need to see these people as inferior and deserving of servitude* - as they collapsed African civilization by kidnapping so many people. So kind of a double-whammy.

As a minor counterpoint, I have a friend whose life was saved by having to get health insurance. We were both contracting. Neither of us had our own health insurance. I was on my wife’s plan and she, well, had none.

My wife was a sign language interpreter until she had to stop due to carpal tunnel issues. We were often put at the ‘hearing impaired’ table at functions.

It’s a fancy IOU, with no inherent value, not guaranteed by anyone. The interesting thing is something called ‘blockchain’, which is a widely distributed database that means If I assign 10 of my IOUs to you, you can prove that those IOUs are now in your account - and so I can’t un-give them, or give them twice

So what am I now?

I think he’d make an excellent president. He doesn’t seem to want the job, though - maybe because he sees what it’s done to President Obama.

but not fast-food hypocrisy.

The issue isn’t so much a divot as a misshapen nose and upper lip from pulling everything together. Hope he’s OK now.

I worked in a bike shop in the 80s. We used to call ‘em ‘potato’ bikes. As in paa-tay-toe, paa-tay-toe. 

Ex-Buell guy here. I’d buy another one if they put in a modern powerplant, well, and started making them again. Ducatis for my sportbike fix now.

I had a zit on the right side of my nose which kept coming back (usual cycle: nothing, red spot, big zit, erupt from a hot wet cloth, bleed for a couple of days, then nothing, repeat...)

Don’t start me on ‘denigrate’ and ‘gyp’, or even ‘indian giver’. I fight the urge to do a mini history lesson every time somebody uses one of these.

There’s nothing like coffee made from still-warm-from-roasting coffee. IMO it’s all downhill from there. Thinking about roasting my own.

My wife and I were members for two years. Shopping at the ‘local’ one was a massive time sink. First a ways to drive, then loads of pushing a ginormous cart around, looking for particular stuff. Then, in the store we used to go to, the carts are stored outdoors, which means that if you turn your back on your cart -…

Adding Coop’s to my ‘next time in NOLA’ list... Thanks!

As long as we have first-past-the-post we will have parties.

So they swapped 3 weeks of the country not being shut down plus six years of CHIP being funded - and a promise from turtle McConnell that there would be a vote on an immigration bill.

And it’s not something you die of. Yes, it’s gross, but is easily curable, unlike, say trichinosis

My folks had a place in a villiage outside Rangeley Maine in the early 60's. Before there was a transfer station, there was a dump - and a dump attendant. There was also an almost-tame black bear that would come around. The dump guy used to buy day-old pies at a local bakery and give half to the bear.