We can only hope the RBG gets the last laugh and outlives Trump. 

I get what you’re saying in an abstract sense, but it’s a little close to the old “we had to bomb the village to save it” approach to be comfortable.

I’m splitting the difference and signing on for a one-way trip to Mars when that opens up. 

There’s nothing like a two-decade long low-intensity war of occupation to let you pull the “But think of the troops!” card whenever you feel like it.

Eh...that’s like saying that the buyer of ivory merchandise shouldn’t have any accountability in the poaching of endangered elephants and smuggling of illegal ivory, only the poachers and smugglers should.  

Meh. He’s just sorry he got caught, not sorry that he frequents sleazy strip mall brothels.

I don’t often agree with Chris Christie, but I think his take on the special counsel’s investigation is probably pretty close to the truth. My bet is that the report does not incriminate Trump not because he was as pure as the driven snow, but because he and his inner circle were so bumblingly incompetent that they…

Yeah, only a crazy-pants communist regime would ever consider just including most of the cost of higher education in with public funding for schools. Just like...oh, wait...most of the rest of the fucking industrialized world.

Foiled by autocorrect, once again. 

I’m at a point where I’m pretty much ready to tune out politics completely.

For a degree program in general liberal arts, or maybe business or computer science...I think you could make a compelling argument that a low cost, high quality online-only option is both feasible and relevant.

Yeah, the entire employment process in this country is fucked up. When employers require a bachelors degree for just about any entry level job that doesn’t consist of backbreaking unskilled manual labor, your only options with a high school diploma (without taking a couple year to learn a skilled trade) are basically…

Yeah, that was a huge disincentive to continue on into academia when I was in grad school. Finding a job in the corporate world with an MA in communications and no agency experience was pretty soul-crushing (especially when you aren’t a pretty little trust fund baby who has mommy and daddy to bankroll unpaid…

Well, the jig is up a hell of a lot faster if you sell schools with a fraudulent Rhodes Scholar-level academic record for a kid who’s going to end up struggling to keep a 2.0 GPA in art history or communications. At least if s/he is sold as a (fake) athlete, you can more easily explain away the train wreck they’re…

Yeah, just about anyone with a functional grasp of the English language and the smallest inkling of motivation can bullshit their way to a halfway decent GPA in communications or political science.

Possibly...but corruption and bribery on that scale is damn expensive.  Nobody’s shelling out $500k+ for their trust fund baby to go to some no-name local college that they could have probably gotten into on their own.

My thoughts, exactly! It’s either a massive web of graft and deceit spread through huge parts of academia...or they’re only setting those spoiled brats up to crash and burn by the end of freshman year.

“...lived an otherwise blameless life.”

When you choose to do something that only effects you, go for it. Get that PhD in medieval literature, smoke a comically large joint, pray to the Flying Spaghetti Monster...whatevs.

When your grandma gets hospitalized with a preventable 19th century illness she caught from some antivaxxer’s dirty rugrat in a public space, the point will sink in.