The Bills and Raiders probably had more deliberately self-destructive offseasons but the Giants may have kicked away the easiest rebuild. They must think that Andrew Luck and Aaron Rodgers prove that it’s simple enough to follow up one great QB with another one (and this is being extremely generous and saying that Eli…

I’ll respect someone standing up for their beliefs right up to the point where their belief is that an entire group of people that can’t change who they are is somehow less. “I don’t hate gays, I just don’t think they should get married and I won’t play soccer while wearing a jersey that celebrates them as people” is…

Disillusionment in the Dems should move us to the left, not the right. That’s what really upsets me about black people acting like right wing tokens for these conservative media outlets/think tanks saying “Dems don’t care about you!” is that thought provoking. There are plenty of fair critiques to be made about Dems…

I’m not surprised she likes Trump’s racism. Um, I mean, “honesty.” I am surprised that she has such a lack of understanding of the media and the current environment and how this would play out. I am surprised her publicist or manager didn’t intervene before the article got published.

Aww, I think it still holds up. “Mid-90s corporate product for kids trying to rebel” is not wrong, but it’s not like your average 14-year-old is getting exposed to Suicide and Poison Idea in the mid-90s. And it does maintain a morose/angry mood well, even the weirder tracks — I really like the quasi-lounge of the RATM…

Erm I know this is a jokey post and I’m sort of loathe to respond in earnest but over reliance on the potato crop was because the British exported and sold all of our other produce leaving us with nothing but the potato so not really asking for a famine no but ok thanks bye.

Back in the day, Bloomberg got rid of the bike lane on Bedford Ave that runs through the Orthodox neighborhoods. He wanted the Hasidic/Orthodox vote, and they didn’t want to see women biking through their neighborhood, so away it went.

Shame he did all that and still someone else is going to win Gold in cross-country skiing

Women are cast as the moral backbone of the society, so they become the custodians of sex. It’s men’s to take and women’s to keep. A woman’s worth is tied to how fiercely she guards it, so boys are conditioned to think ‘good girls’ say no and they are the ones worth pursuing. Her worth increases the more they have to…

Trump’s endgame is to make money for himself and his friends. The endgame of those around him (in the Republican Party - allies and those advising him) is to ride the wave / fan the flames of chaos in order to pass laws that allow them to gain more power, more control, and more money at the expense of the American…

This is what bothers me the most about the Madness of King Trump.

I watch for people who peel a banana this way and then avoid them like the plague. Everyone I have ever seen peel a banana this way is a contrarian and a know it all. Please don’t stop though. It is a useful nonverbal cue for me.

Stands For Flag, Player Suspended

I thought the last 10 months would have been sufficient warning about the dangers of replacing a competent black man with an inexperienced and unqualified white guy, but here we are again.

All dogs are different, of course, but here are some that seem to be fairly common. YMMV.

I have mine, thank you. Acutally he’s my second. The first went to doggie heaven at the ripe age of 14. Nicest dogs you’ll ever meet and they’re just the right speed for me.

I own a retired racer and just wanted to say they make incredible house pets, if you are interested you may have a local adoption agency to go through. I know we have a great organization here in Oregon that places retired racing greyhounds and there are many others across the country. Also this is useless without a…

Why do some people think she is submissive? Do they think that a woman, born near the beginning of the 20th C and becoming queen in the 1950s when men ruled the roost, should somehow be a version of a 21st C feminist? That only happens in made-up dramas. It is stressed that the queen has no power because that's how a…

As a Brit, I wasn't sure about John Lithgow as possibly the most famous Brit ever and a real icon. I agree he's walked a fine line between caricature and just eccentric. In this episode, Lithgow showed a great man battling time, getting old but refusing to go gently. No idea how accurate the portrayal of his jousting…