Immigration from Mexico has been net-negative over the past 5 years. I’m sorry you lost your space job during the Financial Crisis. Lots of people lost jobs.

During March 2009 and with the Dow at 6500, was the space budget over-allocated or under-allocated?

You make lots of good points.

Was Franklin Pierce reallllly that bad?

Well, at least that would involve less torture and a couple hundred thousand fewer civilian deaths. It also would be significantly cheaper than two simultaneous land wars in Asia.

Are you for more government spending or less government spending?

What if I told you Mars was full of “enemy combatants” and it was in need of some freedom?

I feel like we are all taught about Tammany Hall as some sort of historical outlier though, which kinda begs the question. Is the current state of corruption more anomalous (like Tammany Hall) or more the norm throughout our history? I think I read you to be saying that America has always been this way. I don’t …

I try to avoid hyperbolic thinking/words, because it is so pervasive in our culture (from dumb internet headlines to dim sports commentary to every sentence Jon Gruden has ever said on TV).

Tell me about it.

While watching the Bucs take a shit on their home field for 3 hours yesterday, I was actually texting how I wish there was relegation in the NFL. The threat of falling to a second or third tier college football conference might provide some motivation. If there was a chance they might be traveling to Oklahoma State…

+1 self-loathing silence

The GOP tweet was great. They know America’s assault-coverup-capital FSU is in the ACC right?

Wait, are you suggesting that the worldwide child raping factory battlestation isn’t already fully operational?

In 30CE, that crypt under Saint Peter’s was a great place to get under Saint Peter.

Compelling and entertaining, but not quite as simple and persuasive to me as ...

Butt Sir*

This country was founded on the encouragement and promotion of its best, brightest, and hardest working--meritocracy. A fundamental value which--through the market--makes us all better off.

I am not going to hand you a participation trophy for how accepting you are of your bigoted family and friends. That’s your world you live in. But don’t expect pats-on-the-back for making safe spaces for backwardness. Your conflict avoidance is precious.

Lol, I’m not telling the Obamas whom they can be friends with.