You’re restating the obvious, though. Your “Fair Share” is because there’s more people in the NE than in most other places in the country. So it only illustrates basic logic that more people in an area would pay a larger share of the taxes. Are you saying that a place like Utah should be generating as much tax revenue…

Maybe if the state was getting necessary taxes from the businesses in the state, this would be less of a problem? This kind of news pops up and all of us are supposed to panic and rush in to convince the government to help, but where are the taxes from the businesses, the places with the tax breaks that would have…

I find it funny what we use for leverage these days. When government is its normal boring self, we all stand around and decry the Academy Awards as a bunch of masturbatory celebration for out of touch rich people awarding themselves. But as soon as we can use the awards as leverage against someone we don’t agree with,…

This seems like a win-win to me, NRA no longer gets discounts. And Delta no longer gets tax breaks. I’m certain both organizations will somehow manage to pass the cost increase onto their patrons, though.

You act like this is the government. It’s not. It’s a privately owned company that can make their own rules, and Vargas can choose to accept them and stream, or not accept them and use YouTube. Just because some of us see his lawsuit as completely frivolous doesn’t somehow mean any of us are fascists.

Good Lord,…

I think we’re talking about the same two things: Above people are discussing how most gun owners are not nut jobs and are in favor of better gun legislation. But the vocal minority are less educated, easily manipulated, and already probably marginalized by the government. Guns to them represent the only power they…

I only went there once on one of my first trips to the area, and had an awful meal after waiting in line for 30 minutes. I don’t think I’d ever got back to get a second opinion when there are so many other choices in the area. I also don’t much care for fried food, and prefer cold-water oysters, so I was predisposed…

Skip the brunch buffet, but the dinner menu can be fantastic.

Cafe du Monde and Acme are tourist traps, and the food is mediocre at best. I’d avoid both places.

I wait with bated breath to find out who will be crowned King of the Douchebags.

I don’t like the way the body is wide in back and narrows toward the hood from the side. Other than that it looks like a Colorado/Tacoma/F-150 hybrid, and I’m on board with that look. Let’s just see if they try to milk the market for $50-60k for what’s probably a $40k truck including aftermarket (I’m looking at YOU,…

His estate cashed in on everything he hated as soon as his body was in the ground. I remember the day Apple announced Prince was available in iTunes, and you could practically smell the greed.

I recently re-read Count of Monte Cristo, and I was surprised by how simply the sentences were. It’s still one of my favorite stories, so it goes to show that the story and the comprehension level are completely separate things.

please let this be good, please let this be good.

I don’t want to alarm any of you, but the last two games I had this much excitement for were Brink and Wildlands.

Lets extend this to sports teams, too. The last two stadiums our City built cost the taxpayers more than the teams building them, and all the future profits got to the teams and businesses. For the record, neither of these teams are or have been good historically.

BRAVO!!!

In my experience - more recently, at least -people have these binary opinions of stuff. I think A lot of it is related to the idea of a 5 Star Rating like Amazon or Uber. Everyone wants to assign a constant value to things, and make them either a 5 Star Pedestal, or a 1 Star Villain. And like the article states, this…

Why, after seeing these uniforms, am I suddenly hungry for McDonalds?

No, no, no. You misunderstand. Respawn to me is pretty much the culmination of all things I hold dear about gaming. I want them to be an EXCEPTION to the EA rule of becoming garbage. I want them to continue to make original games with controls that are like having the console plugged into my head. I want amazing maps,…

“full of sound and fury signifying nothing”

I kept reading waiting for it to circle back, to question whether “is joke racism okay?” or “are internet vigilantes bad?” or “are young people that make foolish choices self-accountable?” (they fucking should be) and yet I never got that (though admittedly I was glazed over…