I’ve known who Kavanaugh was for about 6 years now, when I saw him speak at a symposium. While I obviously don’t know him personally, from having seen him speak and read his opunions, which come across as pompous, arrogant and self-righteous, it is not surprising that he has developed a self-image of himself being…

Wait, a chicken plant?!? This vegan substitute bullshit has officially gone to far!

I didn’t imply you can’t read. I said you misread. My original post was sort of a zig then zag format - “you’re expecting me to say X, I’m not. Good for you” that I assumed you misread it because I didn’t intend any of the subtext you listed off. Honestly none of that was my intent. I think my point was to say good…

I think the plot to “own the libs” is proceeding apace if we are going to hunt high and low for any and every innocuous sign that someone is a secret nazi. This woman was sitting at a long-ass, boring hearing listening to someone get grilled. I am sure that her hands were at some point in several strange and perhaps…

I’ve been very involved in education advocacy in the Washington State legislature for several years. The statement that is likely to catch a lot of attention is not completely accurate:

I’m conservative and a Republican and I still believe that Blankfein and his lieutenants should have gone to prison. It is a great travesty of justice that no one was punished for massive fraud that cost us trillions. Bush crushed Enron and it’s abettor Arthur Anderson. Goldman should have joined them.

I’m honestly as tired as the “John McCain was a terrible terrible person who no one should say nice things about” pieces as the “John McCain was last of a rare and noble breed of American statesmen” pieces. Dude died just yesterday, and in my universe, it’s still poor manners to interrupt other people’s mourning with…

If my son comes home and says he got in trouble for calling a teacher “ma’am” she won’t have to worry. Because when I get to the school that will be the last thing I call her.

What if *every* KFC has a secret drug tunnel?  The true secret recipe. 

You manage to the norm, not the exception. Shopping around works for the 90% of people needing non-urgent medical care.

Smart people shouldn’t put accidents and issues that can be foreseen from checkups but crop up as their own emergencies in the same group.

Variants on your first point (don’t treat them like animals) are a big chunk of what these seminars propose. Only in place of living wages and benefits its linguistic programming about how they are a family trying to make a difference in the world, and “outside agitators” want to change that so that they can enrich…

It is 100% not absurd. In every other good and service, the profit motive ultimately increases competition and drives costs down. Think about competition between phone providers, deregulated airlines, and tons of new housing inventory being built.

Yeah, the shitty regulation and the fake-negotiated rates are absolutely part of it. But there’s so much more. Our system is broken from top to bottom.

Yeah except the drop off in union membership doesn’t correlate with a spike in compensation; the increase is modest until you get to the Bill Clinton-era law in the 90s, which opened the floodgates.

The UK version focuses more on the actual business of things, whereas the US version focuses more on the drama and histrionics. I prefer the UK version mainly because it’s a nice look at what actually is involved with running a restaurant, from setting the menu to how to run a proper dinner service and Gordon rarely…

I mean, why do we even need bosses, man? Just let the workers, like, be, man. I mean, we are human “be”ings.

Did you even read the fucking sentence you quoted? I’ll bold it for you, hysterical commentariat member:

If you listen to his statement, I don’t think he’d disagree with you. His statement about empathy was _not_ about how to avoid masturbating in front of women. It was chiding men who say “It was a long time ago, it wasn’t rape, why didn’t they say something sooner.” He is saying to empathize with the plight of the…

I doubt he was being literal about a ‘man brain’. He was simply saying what practically all of us here have been saying, that too many men exempt themselves from displaying consideration and empathy to others, particularly women (probably because those men have been socialised to think in such a selfish and entitled…