I mean, whales are not fish either, and I think if a news article was semantically incorrect in calling a whale a fish, it should be pointed out.

“None of this addresses the prevalence of machine guns in America.”

“I think any Jewish people that votes for a Democrat — I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty.”

Trump isn’t a neo-Nazi and calling him one is not helpful. But the President is an inspiration for white nationalists, because he has come a lot closer to saying what they believe than any President in modern history. And while he is not responsible for acts of violence committed by white nationalism, his dangerous…

I think you have a very warped idea of how Californian’s live. For instance, gated communities are very rare in the Bay Area and in most of the core Los Angeles area (though there are certainly a lot more down there). Most of the wealthy people don’t live in gated communities. In fact, a lot of them live in pretty…

Well, he believed in climate science and environmentalism, so apparently that makes him a leftist. 

Also, he was the Vice President for 8 years and in politics for longer than most people have been alive. I think you kind of buried the lead there. 

If you look at the definition of domestic terrorism under the Patriot Act, I do think Antifa does qualify. That being said, terrorism is not a specific crime in the US nor is there an official list of domestic terrorist groups like there is for international terrorism. I don’t think Trump understands how his own…

Biden is leading in the polls because he’s a household name. 

The southwest or Florida are also possibilities, as are a few random states like New Hampshire and Maine/Nebraska. 

Buttigieg has a lot of advantages in my opinion. He seems like he is one of the most electable in a race against Trump and unlike Biden, he’s a millennial (the only one running I think) instead of older than dirt. I have no idea whether he has a chance in the primary against Biden, but I threw some money his way. 

I mean, if the alternative is Trump . . . . I guess is what I’m trying to say is that I’d rather eat at Denny’s than eat dog shit. 

One interesting thing about WWII was that the military was still segregated. The Marine Commandant refused to even let black serve and when the Marines were finally forced to accept blacks, they tended to make them do extremely menial jobs, mostly shoreside.

Also, if you don’t pay attention, you may accidentally end up in Tijuana.

That’s just a Southern California thing. Nobody uses articles for transit in Northern California. It’s 101 and BART, not the 101 or the BART. 

I mean, the idea that the Union fought to free slavery is a common misnomer. They fought to preserve the union. That is what the propoganda said, what the President said, and what most union soldiers died thinking. It wasn’t until late in the war, after the Emancipation Proclamation, that freeing slaves as a noble…

I mean, it’s not widely known in the United States (most of us slept through history), but the 13th amendment did not actually outlaw slavery. Slavery as a punishment was still constitutional. So what did the newly re-Unionized former Slave States do? They rounded up former slaves on minor or trumped-up charges,…

There are a lot of reasons that I am very cynical about assault weapons bans and think most politicians who support them are just trying to score easy points with voters.

Significance is defined as the probability of making a type I error lying outside the confidence interval. There is no way to determine whether requiring background checks of all private gun sales in the United States would lead to a significant decline in gun homicides without defining the confidence interval…

Significance is defined as the probability of making a type I error lying outside the confidence interval. There is no way to determine whether requiring background checks of all private gun sales in the United States would lead to a significant decline in gun homicides without defining the confidence interval…