I totally agree. I think one of these 24 hour news networks needs to re-imagine what 24 hour cable news is. They have so much time to fill why not try to educate and entertain. It is possible to do both.

Some of it is poorly constructed (or poorly regulated) new infrastructure. For instance in Virginia Beach they were relying on developers to design storm water drainage systems, many of which are inadequate. Nobody ever bought a house because it has a state of the art storm water maintenance system and so the…

I’m interested in what your argument is against the government requiring flood insurance for those who own property in a flood zone? I think it is good for a number of reasons:

-It discourages people from building in flood zones, if the house is getting destroyed once every five years maybe you should move your house.…

Has nothing to do with the government. It’s just god business sense by the bank. If I write you 30 year mortgage on a million dollars to buy a house that’s in the 100 year floodplain I’m taking a big risk. There is a 30% chance that your home will be flooded over the course of the loan. If you don’t have insurance and…

A 500 year flood is basically the height of the water crest. For example a 100 year flood might have a crest of 20'. That means on average a storm bad enough to cause 20' of flooding will occur once every 100 years. A 500 year flood would be a worse storm, which might result in say 50' of flooding. The more severe a…

Probably required by the bank in order to obtain a mortgage

After Sandy insurance companies were pulling the same crap in New York. The damage was obviously from flooding but the insurance companies claimed houses shifted on their foundations due to ‘settling’ or had some pre-existing damage that was not related to flooding:
http://www.npr.org/2016/05/24/478868270/business-of-d…

Even if you’re not in a flood zone it’s still a good idea to have flood insurance to cover things like broken water mains.

While I whole heartedly agree that the police need better training to deescalate situations, however I think he does have a point in the somewhat rare, but far to common situation of a mass shooter the police should have enough rounds available to subdue the shooter. Even with a semi-automatic pistol the police would…

“Other pitchers on the cusp of a no-hitter have been crushed in similar ways—Armando Galarraga, Pedro Martínez, and Harvey Haddix are here for you, Rich—but Hill’s defeat is particularly tough to swallow.”

Or Anwar Al-Awaki or John Walker Lindh, American citizens who fought the Global War on Terror (granted for the other side).

Such a sacrifice flying on that tax payer owned jet, crewed by tax payer paid air force staff, guided in by tax payer paid air traffic controllers, landing on a tax payer funded runway, to get in their tax payer provided SUV, with their secret service security detail, and drive out on tax payer funded roads. With many…

Exactly. We can send millions of troops to Afghanistan, but what’s the ultimate goal? What would signify mission accomplished?

So far this year they’ve spent $60,000 in golf cart rentals alone!

The “danger” of looking at the eclipse is definitely a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese to sell us a crap ton of shitty glasses

My thought is if you took all the NHL/NFL/MLB/NBA players and had them try to dunk and hit a home run you could use the result of that as a proxy for the population as a whole. Obviously the general population won’t homer/dunk as often as pro-level athletes, but if more of them homer than dunk or vice-versa, you could…

So you think if there were a womans baseball league that mirrored MLB, nobody would hit a home run? Of course I can’t find a video of it, the sample size is tiny. How mant women have taken BP in major league ballpark? You’re argument is ridiculous.

But do you think Crosby could dunk? Weber is 6'4, so I think he probably could. And think about a little guy like Mats Zuccarello or Martin St. Luis, I bet both have the strength and hand/eye coordination to hit the long ball, but I’d be really impressed if either could dunk.  

During games, but in BP you would be hard pressed to find a major league level player who can’t hit one out.

Granted they’re pro hockey players, but: