Indeed the index fund concept itself is revolutionary, yet most schlubs think buying a house with a nice backsplash and backyard deck is an ‘investment’ when really they could be investing like rich people and becoming relatively wealthy in less time than it takes to pay off a mortgage.

Over/under on odds Jameis one day makes people almost forget about OJ. If it were 20%, I’d almost be willing to take the over.

“Sure as fuck better not be talking about me”

“What school thought having Winston in for a photo op was a good idea?”

Except the Electoral College caps those places at their proportion of the population. You can convince the entire state of California to vote Democrat (which is what the last 3 decades of open borders may have been meant to do), but you’ll never get more than 56 Electoral College votes. At some point, you need to at…

“America is populated by morons who are easily duped”

So it’s a complete coincidence that Clinton got 1/4 of her votes from only 3 coastal states (CA, NY, VA), those that happen to be centers of what passes for ‘journalism’. And places that consider the rest of the nation to be ‘flyover country’, populated by rednecks, racists, homophobes, transphobes, islamophobes, etc,…

Look at a map of the 2016 election results by county, note the distribution of blue:

I doubt very many MLB free agents worry about what might happen if they die.

You’ve put the cart before the horse. Telling people they won’t know the tests came back positive or negative is the prerequisite for getting an agreement - for the family it could be easier to squeeze the Royals for money if he were legally drunk (and technically not entitled by any contract payout), and for the…

As a practical matter, the days of mass immigration are over. You can’t export millions of jobs, then import millions of people. And it’s more than fair for someone already in a particular place to ask, wonder, and discuss why they might need to be surrounded with people from other places. There’s nothing wrong with…

Equal opportunity or equal outcome?

Immigrants have arrived by the tens of millions, some of them completely unprepared for life in the North America. Most of us probably know, or know of, many such people who have managed to create good lives for themselves and their families. You’ll find some Vietnamese or Filipinos or Koreans or Lebanese or…

Wouldn’t work. Housing ‘wealth’ is overrated. If you factor out inflation and compare it to long-term market growth rates, houses don’t make anyone rich. Houses have become more expensive because everything else has, not the other way around.

Problem with that argument is that it can easily be flipped:

“about the only thing that could shatter the system would be something along the lines of economic collapse (avoided a decade ago), or perhaps a global war that we actually start losing, which the entire governmental enterprise has to pivot to address”

I’m sure Bennett is well aware that the current state of Israel is less than 20% of the original British Mandate for Palestine, and only exists because the Arabs who surround it declared war to prevent the jews from having any form of determination at all. I’m sure he’ll also refuse to go to Jordan, which is the other…

...because if you *don’t* acknowledge they exist, they’ll throw acid in your face.

Less than 11 million people watch Saturday Night Dead. And that’s considered a larger audience than normal. People tire of it very quickly. The Church Lady was kind of funny for a while too.

In fairness, Kennedy’s handling was borderline reckless. Most of his actions weren’t based on any real change in strategic balance (he’d been told already that a few dozen Soviet nukes in Cuba made the US no more vulnerable to the Soviets than they had been before), but the *appearance* of change, especially based on…