When I was a youth, dinosaurs roamed the Earth and my Dad brought this home one day:

She looks like an orderly at the asylum to me.

If he fell over sideways in that clip he’d be a live-action electric football piece.

Ok but the water main breakage isn’t the issue here: good job for fixing the blown up main.

Is that the mistake in Flint then? The water main didn’t break? If the mains broke right now they ‘d probably just turn the water off...

The part that makes ME “squeamish” is the part where desperate people MUST do what they can with what they have, because the established systems WILL NOT provide aid for them.

The bridge has a big ol crash-bar set up, no bridge could sustain that many hits.

Also did I mention that we can do more than one thing at a time?

The right wing does stuff like this all the time, and that’s a big part of the problem. You can’t make headway on estate taxes when the Right calls it a “death tax”; after all, everyone dies and no one likes taxes*.

Is FEMA just sending people around, saying “Yup, still devastated”?

I was born and raised in the Bronx, so I’m familiar with “mandatory minimum” and “three strikes” penalties, I don’t agree with them but I am aware that they exist/existed.

This does NOT make it OK to “roll coal”. Many things make the environment worse for humans and we can/should tackle many AT THE SAME TIME.

It reminds me of Anathem by Neal Stephenson.

What CAN America learn about healthcare from the NHS?

18 months pushes the discussion out to a time more convenient for the R’s. Doing it this way means that the debt ceiling fight (which shouldn’t even be a thing) has to happen sooner, and without Harvey relief to cudgel the D’s with.

Every time someone says “politically correct” these days, I assume that their thoughts are straight out of the racial epithet scene in Do the Right Thing.

Like a magnet

I’m sure cars without airbags and crumple zones are cheaper to produce too. Someone somewhere decided “hey, humans have to use these so we’re going to set minimum standards of what’s acceptable/safe/etc”. If every airline on a given route has to comply with new regs, then there won’t be an “extra $20" problem, the…

Ok well from the top of the article:

The treatment of POC in America is the shit sandwich. The show writers want to feed you the sandwich. I already know it’s shit, so I’m not interested, but you go ahead and try it out. After all they have a good track record for making sandwiches.