241,000 law enforcement officers you say?  How many of them know what the fuck a dilettante is, how to spell it and/or use it in a proper sentence?  Yeah, see, that’s part of the problem right there:  they’re either a mass of ignorant dufuses OR their “elected” union representatives are making statements on the…

For real. It’s a long-running game of Monopoly, using real buildings. A company acquires another, sells of a certain number of locations to a third company that rebrands, and then holds for a few years, then shuffles everything up again when another round of mergers and acquisitions presents itself or the commercial…

Well, if you mean closing two (or more) smaller, lower volume locations, and building one bigger new location in the same general area, then yeah, I guess they were closing stores. They weren’t rolling in dough like Amazon, but I don’t think swapping out or consolidating locations in major markets is a decline. Their…

I was brought up not to speak ill of the dead, but I’d feel better about McCain’s legacy, such as it is, if he had resigned sometime after the healthcare “thumbs down” vote, and before Arizona’s cut off for a special election to replace him, as now we get to see who the whack-a-doodle AZ Gov. will appoint to fill his…

The last 24 hours of Twitter have been people falling all over themselves and each other to contribute to McCain’s canonization as some Saint of the Republic(tm).

WHO, the EU and whatever board the State of California uses to identify carcinogens, have all already weighed in on glyphosate being potentially risky well in advance of this legal case.  I suspect the release of the survey of products for Roundup residue was timed to coincide with news of the jury verdict for…

Yes.  Something is amiss, on a large scale.  The other issue here is Monsanto has always stated (and hired consultants and experts to assert, repeatedly) that glyphosate breaks down quickly, doesn’t accumulate, and couldn’t possibly show up in any appreciable amounts in finished products.  All the steps that happen to…

Neither of EWG’s founders are, or have been, attorneys, that I’m aware of...one worked at the National Academy of Sciences and the other has a background in agriculture and soil science and came to found EWG via World Wildlife. They’re a 501(c)3 since 1992, and their 990's are available for public review.

If Detroit and the State of Michigan are smart, they’ll do it as a bond offer - Ford pays it all back with low interest within a specified time, or they’re on the hook for all of it with substantial fees, interest and penalties added. As the world economy and the auto industry stand, I don’t know if I’d trust Ford to…

Yeah, this smacks of some half-baked revenge plot or an attempt to manipulate the Tesla share price for personal gain. I get if there was an investigation with actual findings of wrongdoing (ya know, proof and all) with charges filed and arrests made and Tesla hushed it up, that would be an issue shareholders should…

It’s telling that this is Yemen’s war, and Yemen’s infrastructure, culture and populace will suffer as a result, but the side our government picked had nothing to do with Yemen or it’s people and everything to do with ensuring access to Saudi oil and airbases.

Pure.Horse.Shit.

So...Omarosa isn’t simply the race-traitor that everybody knew her as from the campaign, we’re supposed to believe she was this shrewd double-agent all along, really sidling up close to the guy for all that time to get the real dirt and release it now, a couple months before midterms?

It’s bass-ackwards to me (Oklahoma, notwithstanding) that the thing that got the school’s attention wasn’t the concerned parents rightfully trying to get a consistent bathroom protocol in place for their child, nor the awful discourse in the private Facebook group, but the notion of a <gasp> counter-protest, that…

Just plain Facebook is too public now, so so much of this bogus has migrated to these “private” Facebook Groups. NOBODY at Facebook could have predicted how making groups invite or approval-only could possibly backfire, yet here we are.

This, times thousands and thousands of cancelled and delayed flights.

My big issues with flight delays or cancellations are always related to consistent communication. Why does what the gate agent tells about your options never quite seem to match up with what the customer service phone representative tells you they are? And if you press the issue, or ask enough different people, or…

I love the procedural dancing in that Goodlatte/Nadler clip - these guys aren’t consistent with their own rules of procedure, aren’t consistent with parliamentary procedure and rules of order, aren’t consistent with the law, etc.  Vote ‘em all out and put in some fresh blood, jesus.

I can’t figure out which is the chicken and which is the egg, but the U.S. military spends major funds sponsoring professional sports events...advertisements, giveaways, on-field performances, jet fly-overs and parachute flag deliveries and even preposterous stunts like “reuniting” loved ones with their “secretly”…

Breanna: since there’s so much discussion around charging a person involved in a crime, but not necessarily the main actor, disproportionate charges/overcharging, and references to the case where the man was charged with the death of his accomplice by police, AND since the Root is always addressing police use of force…