I’m not sure sure about the central thesis of this article. There is a pretty dramatic difference between north Florida and south Florida, between urban and rural areas. Orlando, the Tampa Bay area and Broward/Dade/Palm Beach are fully modern cities with diverse populations and relatively sane politics. But with the…

Clever. I’m going to steel this pun.

That’s assuming he doesn’t forget what he said, or change his mind and try to gaslight us all into thinking he meant something different than the words that actually came out of his mouth.

I still don’t get the monetary part of this. I mean, I get why *she* does the whole boobs/trolling/gaming thing, if the money just shows up. But who actually pays money to hurl insults at someone, much less some random girl playing video games? Do these people not have bills and expenses, or is this legitimately some…

I dunno...the most annoying quirk of my Pixel 2 is having to reboot the phone almost every time I want to use the USB-C headphone dongle. Drives me nuts. Sure it reboots pretty fast, but it seems like something that shouldn’t have to happen, especially given that there’s no other way to use wired headphones.

Being a public school teacher in WV seems to be a pretty awful job by almost any standard. Add to that a tight labor market and the fact that it’s just past the halfway mark of the school year, and 90% of those vacancies would sit open until August (at the earliest). And the 10% they could fill will likely be little…

Sorry, Ivanka...when you’re employed by the highest executive office in the country and your boss is publicly accused of sexual misconduct, reporters are going to ask about it. That’s part of their job....and oddly enough, also part of yours.

That’s some full-on Manchurian Candidate shit, right there. In happier times, I would have written it off as laughably implausible. But nowadays... it’s just “Tuesday.”

The fact that people in charge of anything.more important than the remote control to the family room TV are actually talking about arming teachers is a sign that the shit’s gone completely bananas, and that we should probably look at getting the hell out.

He’s trying imply that there could be security/privacy concerns with the Chinese government indirectly owning US-based hotels (due to their recent nationalization of Anbang, the Chinese insurer that owned the Waldorf Astoria).

I can’t tell if the Trumpster is trolling us all, or if he’s just got dementia.

Yeah, the folks advocating arming school staff highly underestimate the potential for teachers on the edge of nervous breakdowns freaking out and going on rampages.

I’m not gonna pretend the ACA was anything close to perfect...but 8 years of planning, and the best alternative they can come up with is crappy insurance that isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on? Seriously? Why don’t they just come out and say that the new plan is for you to just get sick and die unless you can pay…

Ugh. We don’t even need the Russians to make our political discourse completely dysfunctional. We’ve got enough crazy right here at home to do that all on our own.

In a perfect world, this would be an ideal solution. In the real world, it’d likely result in outright civil war.

Under Obama: Because there are enough Democratic lawmakers who are either bought and paid for by the NRA or who are moderates from purple states that they still had minimal chance to move the needle on the gun issue. Plus, they blew all their political capital getting the ACA through.

Unfortunately, that means having to listen to my neighbors blather on about how endangered white people are, how glad they are to have Limbaugh and Hannity speaking up for them, and how the Trumpeter is making America great again.

If he came out and said,”Screw it, let’s just give them all green cards tomorrow and consider it a closed issue,” I could at least consider that a good-faith attempt at compromise. But to create a second-class form of citizenship? That’s just insulting to the idea of citizenship and a dog-whistle back to the days of…

You hit the nail on the head. Legislating access is a nightmare between NRA money and gun-humper protests. But if you can change the economics of it all by squeezing the smaller manufacturers out of business and narrowing the larger ones into effectively being military and law enforcement contractors, that actually…

It’s a step in the right direction, but keeping these weapons out of the hands of 18-20 year olds isn’t going to do much when there are already so many in circulation.