I’m just selfish. We have an economy that is entirely driven by consumer spending.

I once worked for a company that did not allow us to pay a competitive wage to our entry level staff and we constantly argued that we had to raise it to attract better candidates and reduce turnover.

Could be. I would say that many people confused their hatred of the war with hatred of veterans. Not everyone ran up to spit on veterans.

Not just the NFL. We went through a time in Vietnam when the general public was generally awful to veterans and we should be ashamed of that.

My concern is that there is so much focus on punishing speech rather than punishing actions.

There were definitely failures, just as there continue to be terrible problems for victims in NJ of Sandy. NJ continues to take payoffs from developers so they can build in dangerous areas for short term profit.

Guess what, her lawyers are “Liberty Counsel” and this publicity is driving in crazy donations to their organization.

Wrong on most accounts. MS had a much lower population density. And the water had someplace to go after the storm, it drained back into the ocean, it was not trapped in a bowl. The lower impact was driven by these two factors, not better local government.

Please, most of my family lives in rural PA. There a reason for the old expression “PA is Phili and Pittsburg with Alabama in the middle”.

My family is mostly from PA and so I pay attention to this., You are entirely right, except the “PA man” stories are usually less amusing than “FL man”.

It’s better than it use to be. In the 90’s and early 2000’s it was a regular occurrence for people to be fired for stupidity with email. Either accidentally sending inappropriate material to the entire company, or sending something really inappropriate (thinking it was funny) to a smaller group and several would go to…

Here’s the thing, a background check will only pick up criminal convictions so I would not blame them for initially working with him.

I have been in service my entire career and there are a ton of horrible customers. To be fair though, there are behaviors that will bring out the worst in people.

It’s almost never the servers fault. Only once in my life did that happen. At the point we thought we would be getting the food, the server disappeared for a half hour. None of her tables were serviced at all. She brought the food and it was cold. Clearly the kitchen had done their part quite a while ago. Oddly, for…

They are good cars, as are Hondas. Both lose to the competition on price every time. And Volkswagen is generally less reliable than their competition (but not disastrously so).

Sometimes old tech already found the best solution. (Buttons you can feel without taking your eyes off the road)

I started paying really close attention to the replays of interceptions (or incompletions) that are shown from the angle behind the line of scrimmage, basically showing what Jay sees.

Got to disagree. Of course they are not going to be obvious, the same way that the tobacco industry tried to claim that Joe the Camel cartoon was not directed towards kids.

I noticed that “alcohol” or “drinks” were conspicuously absent from the restrictions.

No, they determined that the readings a foot or two above sea level were different from those taken at the tops of ships.