Hey! White male Oklahoman here who voted for Clinton. But for the last 20 years— once the GOP became an unholy alliance of plutocrats and theocrats— I have voted Democratic. And Oklahoma is a great representation of that alliance. On the one hand, you have a small group of wealthy elites. They clamor for lower taxes…

Yeah, the graph is perhaps not so clear. I believe that the numbers along the bottom represent “% of wealth” so that, for example, on the top bar, the top 20% (the yellow) owns ca. 85% of the wealth. The next 20% (the orange) has ca. 10% of the wealth. The next 20% (the red) has... ca. 4% of the wealth? (It’s hard to…

Very nice reply. I’ll add to your statement that NBA ownership and management is almost entirely white and male. You could be a really basketball-smart Arab American Muslim and it is unlikely that you’d get even an interview for a high school coaching job.

Yeah, I don’t know how that works. You can’t be for shoring up the social safety net, improving our lagging education and infrastructure but then also be for massive tax cuts. Fixing bridges and water lines costs money.

Yeah, that seems a bit harsh. This guy grew up in a world where for a certain segment of the population, your career trajectory was pretty clear: you graduate from high school, then get a job at a local factory, make a reasonable wage with real benefits, and then you retire.

In fact, your solution seems pretty…

The fact that he seemed far more interested in winning the election (it’s the ultimate, nation-wide reality show, right?) than he does actually governing, was. in fact, talked about in July. If he just walked away from this it would be— as Trump likes to say— tremendous.

Right? With the high-def antenna and network options plus a smart TV with Netflix and whatever, I do not miss cable at all.

As others have said, there is no chance anyone wrote this but Trump. “Tremendous” (twice)? “Unbelievable”? “Beautifully”? Those are words Trump uses almost to excess in his speeches. I mean, here he is saying “tremendous” like a thousand times. No one does that. This was obviously either written by Trump beforehand,…

Just a thought. My Gmail account is over 10 years old. I have thousands of emails/chats from exes that will document the highs and lows and eventual ends to those relationships. Some of that stuff is rather personal and no one needs to see it, really.

The premise behind “barely-legal” porn is that underage girls...

Eh. That’s like ca. 600 CE or so— way too late. In fact, I’m sort of fudging with the “rapist” line because the cut-off for “ancient” is probably Alexander (if not earlier).

It’s not hard to see the HoF’s point, though, is it? Consider the following made-up but completely realistic situation: A guy dies leaving behind and ex-wife, two kids from that marriage, and a third child from another relationship. He is then voted into the HoF. Who gets all the choice HoF swag?

The HoF wisely decided…

When Christians look and wonder why their numbers continue to drop, one of the things (of many) that they can reflect upon are attitudes like this one. When one states that the magical god Yahweh— perhaps the shittiest and most insecure god of the whole ancient Near East (and an admitted rapist)— is punishing people…

Not exactly, but close enough. This email thing is a canard, but the media just can’t stop drumming up a fake Clinton scandal so people can go on about how “both candidates are horrible.”

Even the email thing is pretty bogus.

I had hoped I would be the first to do so, but I guess I’ll have to be number two.

+1 commercial aired during Matlock re-runs.

You are a rare breed. I have had at least a hand-full of run-ins with parking ticket people and usually the infractions were pretty benign— e.g. being a few minutes late to a metered spot in a low-traffic area (so I wasn’t hogging a prized parking spot or something). Yet even with some politeness, self-deprecation,…

There is a totally fascinating documentary on this sort of shit. Evangelical Christians are, well, interesting.

Didn’t watch the game, but that block seems to me to be legal. The FSU player launches himself and appears to be going for the Clemson player’s midsection. It appears that the FSU player was successful but thanks to gravity he quickly slides down to where it seems like he’s hitting “below the waist”— and thus a…