Is anybody else just utterly unconvinced that we could do anything with all that money that would help the poor of this country long term? Our government already spends more per capita on healthcare than any other country. The problem isn’t the system; the problem is that the system has to serve Americans. People who…

This is an event where guns are involved, and the USA is just now winning its first WC gold medal? Was this their first year competing? Surely I’m missing something here.

Maybe a blue-footed booby?

“being able to treat the highest office in the land as fun because nothing bad will happen to you” is not the hallmark of being rich and white in America.

I never got the immpression that Brady was pro-Trump in a political sense. More of a “this guy I know and am kind of friends with is running for president. Boy, it would be neat if my kind of friend were president!” Brady doesn’t strike me as the political type. He seems apathetic to things that are not his family or…

This. I started rooting for the Patriots right before their Super Bowl loss to Green Bay, and I grew up in Western New York. Why would a little boy in WNY root for the Pats and not the Bills? Because EVERYBODY fucking loved the Bills were I grew up and they were insufferable pricks and I hated them. And the wheel…

So privilege is working really hard to be really good at something (and continuing to try to succeed even after you would be justified to rest on your laurels) and salty strangers on the internet who know nothing about you or your profession can get upset when when you achieve something? That’s the…

My wife and I are both long distance runners. We adopted a lab/pit/viszla mix that had been stuck at the shelter for too long because she was too high energy when people came to meet her. Our happy little girl now gets 3-5 miles of running per day, and she is the sleepiest fuck the rest of the day. Always consider the…

My wife and I almost adopted a three legged puppy named Puzzle, but someone else adopted him the day before we were supposed to pick him up. I guess until you’ve laid down the cash, the dog isn’t yours. Glad that another family out there had a heart for a three legged dog though :)

They make products that use awesome materials - relative to the stuff most people are used to. Wicking, having a good warmth to weight ratio, and paneled construction engineered for comfortable wearing are bare minimums in the tech apparel industry. Most outdoor companies (Patagonia, Mountain Hardwear, The North Face,…

‘Selfish’ just means putting your own interests before the interests of others, and I really don’t see that as some sort of social sin. It’s a prisoner’s dilemna. Because giving costs you something, and the people to whom you’re expected to give almost never give anything in return.

Doesn’t matter if they die at 50 if they’ve had 10 kids by then. ‘Stupid’ is winning the demographic war because intelligent people don’t have kids. It’s an uncomfortable reality that intelligence is highly heritable. Education matters but not as much as having parents who care about education. Until intelligent,…