Booker is toast at this point. He’s just adrift in the chaos, and would be better served by bowing out gracefully.

That’s part of the problem...there’s so much ambiguous, contradictory random stuff in the Bible that it can be interpreted to mean just about anything you want it to say. It’s basically the world’s biggest guided free association test.

I am actually more shocked and horrified at how not shocked and horrified I am this point in this seemingly endless stream of mass shootings than I am about any one of the past few mass shootings themselves.

I suppose at that point, you just have to look at other issues where they may differ, accept that you’re stuck between two evils and pick the lesser of them. Taking your ball and going home in disgust will only leave proportionately more votes for the greater evil. 

I hadn’t priced out modern edibles - that’s pretty damn cheap. Admittedly, last time I partook, the only “edible” available was just a box of brownie mix that you threw an eighth into.

You’ve got a point on the averages. Though, I’m not sure their calculations also account for the increased revenue from people crossing the border from Indiana and Ohio specifically cheaper legal weed, either.

You’re right in that it would make staying a productive, motivated citizen more challenging. But I suppose it’s just weird to see pricing like that; only marginally more than what it was like 25 years ago, when my budget as a high school kid was a fraction of what it is today.

That’s the sense I was getting (with about a 10 year differential in there). Looks like supply is booming and the risk premium is shrinking. 

$2500 a year may be a pretty generous entertainment budget for your average Michiganite, but is it really all *that* much weed (especially for a whole year)? Either the price hasn’t kept up with inflation since my misspent youth or people up there are kind of lightweights.

My fear is that America’s creepy uncle is demoralizing enough to keep the Democratic base from getting fully energized, not compelling enough to sell centrist independents who have yet to get personally burned by Trump and still scary enough to the Republican base that they turn out in droves to stop him.

He was better at laying low when he was actually the VP than he is now. 

Moments like this make me want to grab Uncle Joe by the lapels and shake him vigorously while shouting, “WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING?!?”

It might already be happening and we won’t even realize it until the Vogon constructor fleet shows up. 

Well...whether you want to chalk it up to aliens or mystical will o’ wisps or some future version of humanity traveling back in time to study us - something seems to be out there, that the government has made quite the investment in both understanding and keeping out of the public eye. And that makes it worth finding…

The reality is that the aliens are probably treating us the way we treat primitive hunter-gatherer tribes in the Amazon, knowing full well that we wouldn’t understand them and would just panic if they showed up and said “hi.”

Same. It makes me kinda sad, because a proper, not-low-budget/cheesy D&D movie or series could actually be pretty decent, especially if they used a decent module or series of novels as the basis. 

Biden’s only redeeming quality is that he’s too close to being a Republican (albeit a relatively moderate one from the late 1980’s and not quite their current monstrous iteration) for Trump to coherently insult.

Give me a big enough document and I can “selectively declassify” it in a way that makes it say pretty much anything you want.

Well, technically...the Iranian people put the Ayatollahs in power. Mainly because the US spent most of the Cold War supporting the Shah (who was a pretty awful military dictator by most accounts) and they eventually got sick of him and threw out the US-backed regime. 

I get mopey and introspective after a couple of drinks, and am usually asleep by the time I’m done with a third drink.