Republicans are much more willing to “do what it takes” to entrench their views, while a large body of Democrats are still holding onto the concepts of fairness and bipartisanship.

Part of this is due to the fact that the phrase “separation of church and state” is not actually used in the Constitution itself. However, this EXACT phrase was used by Thomas Jefferson in correspondence discussing the intent of the freedom of religion language that is used in the Constitution. IIRC, there is a large…

I’ve been thinking about this for a few years now. The difficulty is that they’re are few states that are completely red or completely blue. Urban areas tend to be blue, rural areas tend to be red, suburban areas are transitioning from red to blue. Even within these areas, more educated people tend to vote blue, less…

“...abortion shouldn’t be allowed in cases of rape because the fetus ‘may be the next president.’”

I guess that they’re saying to the Democratic party: “don’t expect us to vote for your candidate unless that candidate supports getting rid of the Hyde amendment”. It’s telling the party that they’d better seek out, groom and support candidates that support the issues that are important to Black women, or Black women…

Most of the time it was just Fox News ranting “Everything is terrible under Obama" without specifying a single thing. Followed by "Everything is great under Trump" and "Everything is terrible under Biden". 

The government’s reaction* to the pandemic has been driven by the scientists, and the scientists’ reaction to the pandemic has been driven by the behavior of the virus. I hope these truckers get to sit down with the virus itself to air their grievances.

The right is saying that all these babies will be adopted into good loving homes.

It does seem that the relatively few truckers who had their trucks towed away would be footing the bill for the larger movement. That itself doesn’t seem fair.

The Right Stuff? Was SausageFest.com already taken? You know this is going to have a 30-to-1 incel to psychochritianantifeminist ratio.

I was reading yesterday that there have been an additional 1 million deaths that are ‘unaccountable’. So, deaths from COVID are probably much higher than reported.

If only the US didn’t seem hell-bent on perfecting the art of being an idiot. Not only that, but our idiots are getting more and more proud of being idiots.

You are right. I was talking specifically about the issue of following the airline safety protocols.

This is why I’m not willing to fly unless they implement a vaccine mandate. It’ll be good for everyone’s health, but (more importantly) serve as a very effective asshole filter.

Probably can’t do anything about the deer. However, making sure that the braking system is fully-functional by requiring regular safety inspections could reduce the amount of damage/death. Some states require safety inspections, others don’t.

I had my hopes up so very high.

So, I’m not the only one who thinks that this could be a great boost for the self-driving truck industry. Everyone’s been trying to find the great benefit of not having a human driver, well here it is.

No true ‘Murican drives a Mazda.

I live in Arizona, which is overflowing with HOAs. I looked at some houses that weren’t part of HOAs, but the people in those neighborhoods seemed to be extremely of the "I'll do whatever the hell I want" variety. Unfortunately, I couldn't find anywhere in the middle ground.

My father was an engineering apprentice at the aircraft engine part of Rolls-Royce back in the late 1950s. In addition to spending 20 hrs/week in the classroom and 20 hrs/week doing homework, he’d have to spend 20 hrs/week in a rotating series of jobs in the factory.