Both parties have their heads so far up their own asses that it is hurting everyone. Generally, I have found that better/worse depends on which side of the fence you lean on.

Nope - correction was for your post. For more about the Southern Democrats (Douglas famously debated Lincoln during the pre-Civil War period), read up on the Southern Strategy and the Civil Rights movement through the 1950’s and 1960’s - this is where the great realignment took root and all those Southern Democrats…

...the democratic party would spend everything it has, and this country has, in pursuit of an unrealistic ideal regardless of consequences.

Absolutely right - I would only point out that it’s not just tax breaks for the wealthy, who will then buy up the land. The end game is tax breaks and deregulation for business, so it’ll be big corporate interests buying up the formerly public lands.

The concept wasn’t born out of the anti-slavery movement. The idea of States Rights, or Popular Sovereignty, predates the founding of the United States and is enshrined in our Constitution. I’m specifically talking about Stephen A. Douglas using the term(s) in the 1850’s as part of the political discourse on slavery.…

Please don’t take this the wrong way, I know it’s an emotionally charged topic, but “plan to sell OF your public land?”

Haha - we forget, at our own peril, that “States Rights” was born out of not wanting a Federal govt to decide whether a state would allow slavery or not.

Um yeah, except it does boil down to an Evil Republican thing. Belief that smaller government is better, and that the Federal government is the problem, is definitely a Republican thing. Except, they don’t believe that when it’s the government preventing you from having an abortion, or getting married, or being under…

No such thing as one-way communication, by definition.

“Dark History” - “Slave Trade”

All those guys needed was Ludicrous Speed

It’s what was called the ship’s Ansible in Ender’s Game (book, not movie) if I recall - spooky entanglement at a distance is what allowed Ender to drive ships on the other side of the galaxy

A long-lived raced of vampires have an algorithm that produces “maximum bliss point” songs. A few contemporaries are granted access, in order to diffuse the source enough to avoid suspicion. The reason Blurred Lines sounded just like Marvin Gaye? Marvin either stumbled across a musical bliss point organically in the…

Thought that said “conservationist.” I’ll show myself out.

I thought Austin Powers and Dr. Evil cleared this up years ago.

Sincerity. Once you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

Alien hunters!? Damn, they let dentists shoot anything these days.

This company got hit with a $663 million fraud judgment in June 2015 - here’s a good infographic that explains why the endcap design impales cars on impact:

Upheld his suspension? The way they strut around, seems like a frame job. It comes as a shock, but I’m sure he’ll spring back. Kenseth’s no lap dog!

it wouldn’t feel right as the historically Scottish character that is James Bond