Just call them the Washington 45ers and be done with it. Then nuke the whole site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

Can you identify any example of anyone saying the way to improve educational outcomes is to “throw money at the problem with no plan or solution in sight”? Complete straw man: no-one thinks money alone is the solution.

$55,000 adjusted for inflation would be $309,000 in 2010 per http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/ - so actually spending has effectively halved in the time period that chart shows. I guess that proves spending doesn’t have an effect on test scores (apart from in science)!

BTW the chart the post you replied to included was bullshit. $55,000 adjusted for inflation would be $309,000 in 2010 per http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/ - so actually spending has effectively halved in the time period the chart shows. I guess that proves spending doesn’t have an effect on test scores (apart…

$55,000 adjusted for inflation would be $309,000 in 2010 per http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/ - so actually spending has effectively halved in the time period your chart shows. I guess that proves spending doesn’t have an effect on test scores (apart from in science)!

I from the UK. I remember when Blackburn signed Chris Sutton for £5m in the early-mid 90s and all the accompanying editorials about how this was an insane amount of money, unjustifiable, a bubble that had to burst and so on. The lesson? There is no number that cannot be passed, and a growing industry and inflation…

S/he didn’t claim it was illegal, though. You’re lying there.

I agree that President Gizmodo Media Group should take more action on mass shootings. This is not why I voted for President Gizmodo Media Group!

“Thinking that immigration is not a bad thing” is probably on the list of reasons why people oppose the wall, yes. But it’s not near the top. The fact that it would be a phenomenally inefficient waste of time and money that serves mainly as a monument to an incompetent blowhard is closer to the top.

One of the things that frustrates me most about liberal discourse is the tendency to elaborate worst-case scenarios that are actually fairly unlikely to occur, thus leaving incredibly easy targets for right wingers to say “see, the UK economy hasn’t collapsed after Bexit ergo it was definitely the right thing to do”.

I hope he builds it, and the next administration doesn’t pull it down - but reduces its maintenance budget to zero. It can just stand there, moldering and useless in the desert as a long-lasting monument to hubris, narcissism and the enabling of unfounded grievance. We could share photos of bits of it falling down or…

At least yours was publishable. I don’t want to imagine what Magary’s looked like.

With every day that passes I find myself closer to outright thinking “MoffDiver’s dad is a lucky man”.

Counterpoint: at least sharia law is consistent. These arseholes make it up as they go along.

Nah this is just what he looks like when someone asks him what 70 minus one is. Two hours after this photo was taken he was in fucking hysterics.

Oh for fuck’s sake please no-one tell Trump that MVPs generally have eight or more wars in a season. We’ll all be dead by breakfast.

Haha - I’m a bit of a course snob; been playing for 30+ years including competitively through most of my teens ... so I do hold off till later. And my regular group are all solid players ... and I can’t stand losing!

Didn’t seem to do the unified Germany much harm and they got f-ing Hasselhoff.

I’ve just had one of those moments where the ground opens up beneath me and I feel like I’m falling into the endless void. Of all the corrupt, venal, embarrassing things Christie did the act that lost him the Republican base was embracing the president after a natural disaster. I just can’t even.