Right. It’s funny how Republicans build careers on being unrealistic. They aim for the stars, and their voters reward them for it. They don’t get everything they aim for, but they do run the country. Democrats, on the other hand, enjoy telling voters to “grow up.”

Dems gave up on that in the early 1970's. They’re on the same side as the Republicans in the class war, they’re just more clever about it because they’re more rational. I’m not saying the 2 parties are the same: rational is far preferable. I am saying that Democrats reserve their worst vitriol for people who take the…

Add in the temporarily stalled Republican war on higher education, as well. The prosperity act and more stupid shit is in the pipeline to discourage Americans from even seeking the skills to compete.

The NFL should take one for the team here and sell the Panthers to Trump on the condition that he resign the Presidency immediately.

How about a receiver who establishes possession before crossing the plane with 1 knee down (1 knee = 2 feet) + 1 foot down + 1 football move?

From the government’s point of view, “black identity extremists” are dangerous because they are not represented in our political system at the moment, they actually have a point that makes sense, and they could develop a mass following leading to changes in our political system. Nazis don’t actually have a point and…

The government is trying to destroy higher education here because it’s cheaper to hire non-Americans. The tax bill + the Orwellian “Prosperity Act” are the latest installments of that push.

Some great assistant coaches are/were terrible head coaches. Thibs is in that category. He should be a valuable assistant somewhere. Instead, he’s likely to run some exciting young players into an early retirement.

The Balls look pretty well off already. I don’t think this hype is going to change their lifestyle much. He’s a lot more intelligent than the president, FWIW, and a lot less dangerous to all of us.

IMO, if you watch these 2 teams playing each other multiple times, you’ll see a pattern of behavior by both teams. I don’t see a ton of hitting like that in other games. Granted, I don’t watch as much as I used to, but I have been grossed out by a Steelers-Bengals game in the recent past.

P.S. I love Shazier and am pulling for him. I only wish he, his team, and the Bengals would have chilled the fuck out before this game happened.

P.S. I love Shazier and am pulling for him. I only wish he, his team, and the Bengals would have chilled the fuck out before this game happened.

This type of hit pretty much happens on the regular in a Pittsburgh-Cincinnati game. This is not normal for the league in 2017, and most of the time the league tries to regulate leading with the crown. The NFL should have told both of these teams to cut this shit out last year after the playoff meeting. They’re trying…

Have you seen what Congress has been up to? It looks like the goal is to make sure Americans can’t make a living doing manual or intellectual labor. Can we all be baristas?

Your last paragraph sticks out to me: the next time he steps onto the court, Okafor will be playing for a team that wants him to succeed and that is trying to win the game. And those will be firsts for him.

It’s funny to me that one of the yokels up there was talking about “the mothership” returning soon, considering the fundiegelicals are drooling all over themselves because they think Trump’s acknowledgement of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel will bring about the End of Times.

I like what you’re saying. The government, however, is busy destroying incentives for higher education. They haven’t voted it into law yet, but they’re headed there. When I was growing up, there was a lot of talk about getting our country back to the top in math and science so we could do research. I guess the country…

My city used to use the police to pick them up and drop them off in another city. God bless America. At least when we’re homeless there will be no more room for rhetoric, because that’s a luxury.

There is no train in this thread! It isn’t even a thread! It isn’t even a conversation; it’s just a bunch of zeroes and ones translated into light and transferred through... tubes. There are no tubes!

Nobody use metaphors!