No they can’t.

What’s fair? Should they make as much as the NYT or PBS (whatever they make)? or maybe you have an ideal figure in your head? If so, how did you come to it?

Well, Bourdain was (at least) partially an asshole. Like taking money from a corrupt government and then going out of his way to portray the country in the baddest way possible kind of an asshole.

I don’t think an Eephus pitch applies for this situation (or tennis). She serves with a crazy amount of spin so force doesn’t matter all that much. Additionally she has a beautifully diverse game, shes’s not afraid to use shorts, volleys, lobs,risky shots (near the line) and moves great. She will be a force in the…

Because you’re insistig on being stupid, I’m gonna live this here maybe it’ll permeate that calcified grey matter of yours. It’s unlikely, because you seem the type who gobbles up third hand regurgitations and who’s never read a primary source in his life.

She’s not conventionally attractive, yet she’s desirable and desired. I guess a little pesonality goes a long way. A lot of women have a hard time admiting they’re walking cliches. The good kind (in their mind), but clichees nevertheless.

Do you know how many lifes were lost during the strategic bombing of Tokyo? Do you know how many more would have been lost if said bombing would have continued or escalated (such a proposition ws on the table). Much more. Also remember that Japan is a collection of pretty big islands with serious mountains. That would…

I was referring to the first WW. Too bad Wilson couldn’t make the Congress see the value of his vision...

Stop embarrassing yourself. Comparing individual vigilante “justice” that amounted to 4000 dead over almost a century (According to the Tuskegee Institute, 4,743 people were lynched between 1882 and 1968, including 3,446 African Americans and 1,297 whites.) with TENS OF MILLIONS STATE MANDATED MURDERS is just moronic.

Well, ar least they did’t Gulag-ed or summaryly executed them. See the difference? I reiterate, even with racism America was and is the greatest force for peace, the two are not mutually exclusive.

It’s not on fire but no thanks to the flaming strawmen being thrown at it. If you remember the assertion was “America the greatest force for peace” not America the least racist. (come to think of it, in those times it might have been even that)

University wise? Without a doubt.

You should’t trust speculations and counterfactuals.

Protestant ethic & capitalist spirit. Without them nothing would have been achieved.

Yes it is. WW2 would have been lost without the US. So there’s that. Oh, and unlike the idiot Europeans, the US helped its former enemies to became prosperous, thus avoiding revanchard sentiments. So there’s that too.

They feel it reflects on themselves, especially if they have a life in a small community. Instead they should send everyone a copy of Freakonomics, if you ask me...

Maybe for some. But for countless other is just the tiresome routine of each and every hard day that gets to them. Maybe one day you fail to see when your 2yo snatches another’s toy without asking and maybe you fail the second time and then the behavior gets reinforced. His peers see this behavior and start mimicking…

He’s a man who sleeps on his factory floor to oversee production. What would you expect? Also, it’s not like he keeping (himself) a secret or luring her under false pretenses.

It/he is not, in fact, terrifying at all. His rise to fame is largely due to his charisma. He is rightfully picking on some zeitgeist bubblings in historical context, but others (more famous intellectuals) did too. They just didn’t have the charisma and the milieu (YouTube). I am talking about Alasdair Macintyre with…

No, we won’t excuse you for Castro’s (allegedly) illegitimate obnoxious baby.