I somehow was convinced that takes like this would start to fall out of style when the pandemic finally forced us to see that America doesn't have a lot to be proud of. We don't do anything for our people, but expect our people to slavishly throw themselves into wars we never needed to start, in order to secure oil.…

The first book, for me, falls into the category of “neither especially good nor especially bad, but still the recipient of what seems to be absurd levels of vitriol.” Like, okay, it’s not a great work of art, but has it wronged you somehow? Is its existence somehow detracting from the world? It’s not fixing all the…

In the times of the old you used to be able to come home on your weekend, unplug your landline house phone, and metaphorically cease to exist until you went back to work.

Oh, so we have a Fajita Felicia now?

John Bolton: writes about stuff everybody knows but may have been classified Top Secret

I even had a police officer w/her gun drawn dive under my garage door as it was closing

Yeah, how about no. Speed cameras are BS. 

I only have the PC and Switch version so I can only talk about those. The Switch version is great for portability, but it can have some graphical hiccups from time to time. PC runs great and has controller support, but I’m not too sure about the mod scene. I assume the PS4/XB1 versions are good too (it’s an 8 year old…

I was pointing out that rent-a-cops and bodyguards are already being used, not that they would somehow be invented under the circumstances, and absolutely not that they should be relied on for...much of anything.

First of all, I’m not narrowing any scope. I’m pointing out that you are building an argument on a false premise (that the reformed institutions that come out the other side would by definition be either, or both, less trained or less competent).

replacing them with less trained, less competent

I think the question is, what are YOU smoking?

You mean rent-a-cops and bodyguards?

I’m gonna guess that you’ve never seriously thought you were going to be killed because you accidentally made eye contact with a police officer?

“We just don’t know when our customers, who truly put the cracker in Cracker Barrel, are going to come back.”

This is also pretty common in workplace kitchens. Plop an egg in a coffee mug, “beat” with a company-supplied plastic fork, and use the company microwave. I have yet to see a corporate kitchen that has an oven and a communal frying pan.

Yeah, but at what cost?

This is utterly heartbreaking. Thank you for continuing to bring attention to these matters instead of sticking to sprouts.

It happened while he was in office and much more happened before he was in office, this issue goes far beyond just one president. Obama specifically had good intentions, but he wasted far too much time trying to get compromise out of stubbornly uncooperative conservatives, see the inability to appoint a new Supreme…