“you can’t have a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent.” has never so succinctly summed up our current political climate

Plus it should be harder for politicians from opposing parties to demonize each other into gridlock if they’ve known each other for a long time and expect to keep working together. Should be.

The people in his state really liked him, and voted him into office 6 times. Why would you disqualify someone the voters are selecting?

When you consider some of that new leadership looks like Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, I’d take any of the old school country club Republicans back.

This is one of those moments that makes me wonder about democrats...are we stupid? I feel like we might be.

Quebec City (the provincial capital) is Baton Rouge. Montreal is New Orleans.

If 95% of the sellers on CL are street smart, the scammers are doing well

They are required in Quebec, but only from Dec 15 to Mar 15. Right now in the city it is really greasy, wet snow. I decided to work from home today because I didn’t feel like deal with frozen pants, nor the swamped metro.

Alberta is Canada’s Texas.

I’m pretty sure the correct French phrase is “Tiens ma bière.”

Alberta is Canada’s Texas. The Maritimes are definitely not Canada’s Florida.

Of course it’s in Montreal, but the women are much, much hotter there than in Florida.

tabarnac, we say tabarnac

It did seem a little odd that he didn’t at least have the sense to jump out of his car and furiously sweep the path with his curling broom.

The article you’re commenting on is about how Trump, who is not yet president, decided to make this deeply significant gesture WITHOUT MENTIONING IT TO THE PEOPLE CURRENTLY IN POWER. I understand that not everyone supports the One China policy, but this is not the kind of move you make before your inauguration,…

Look, you’re right, but I think you’re whole “try me” schtick is misplaced here. The point of this isn’t about Taiwan, really. It’s about a president who has no fucking idea what he’s doing wading into extremely tricky international waters. And if you’re going to pretend that it’s in the best interest of ANYBODY - us,…

Even without a nuclear threat, China has OVER 1 Billion MORE people than the US.

I can confirm that Secretary Kerry didn’t spend all day sobbing in a dark room, I saw him walking into a hotel bar (with his agents) this afternoon.

W-w-w-w-w-w-w-wait. But what if I just want to read the headline and get outraged?!

I think you would agree that not drinking in excess around strangers/coworkers is good advice.