Athens is pretty liberal. It’s also full of crackers from the South Georgia and the Atlanta suburbs.

There’s a weird classism and possibly racism to the people who want colleges to prosecute rape instead of cops. Kicking rapists out of college doesn’t make people safer. It just makes women who aren’t in college more vulnerable. Why don’t feminists care about them?

How does that make it harder to prosecute campus rapes? It pushes victims to go to the police, which makes it easier to prosecute rape.

The cop would have been wise to not beat the shit out of her.

It changes the chance you get colorectal cancer from 5% to 6%, and only if you average 2 oz a day of processed meats or 3.5 oz of red meats. Unless you eat a lot of red meat and are irrationally worried about an increase from 5% to 6%, this isn’t a big deal.

The teacher probably didn't want to get shot. Where he went wrong was calling for a cop in the first place.

What level of cussing would justify that use of force?

You also shouldn't beat the shit out of teenagers.

A sword is the worst possible design for a bludgeon. Why would you use a bludgeon that tapered to a point away from the handle? That would be like holding a baseball bat or a tennis racquet backwards. And if swords were just bludgeons, why did they get lighter, longer, and stronger as metallurgy improved? Making a big…

You’ve already seen it? How do you know it’s a “completely unoriginal piece of cinematic dreck”? Some remakes are awful. Some are good. The new Ghostbusters might be awful, but it might be good. This movie could go either way.

It's too bad Mackie doesn't believe that we should invade more countries and that people should stick to directing movies about their own race, since these are apparently liberal values now.

It’s not like going around imposing democracy on people hasn’t been a complete clusterfuck.

Maybe FIFA is just so corrupt that they don’t know how to legitimate transactions anymore. Like someone in FIFA pulled up the paperwork for the grant, and step one was “get payment from host country.” Their accountants no longer know how not to launder money.

“I think the take-home lesson here ladies is that you have to fight for your own shit. Fight tooth and fucking nail.”

Man, looks like all those actresses made a huge mistake in hiring Jeremy Renner to be their agent.

And if you counted everything - sales tax, tax penalties on renting, etc. - the difference between your tax burden then and now is much smaller than you think.

That is true. It doesn’t mean that the poor end up with no net tax burden. http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonkblog/…

If you're getting FICA, etc. back, you're either lying or literally sneaking into the fed and taking it back. Tax refunds are on income tax. They're only on income tax.

Except for FICA, Social Security, property tax, and sales tax, you’re right, the poor don’t pay taxes.

So you’re not right.

Except for FICA, Social Security, property tax, and sales tax, you’re right, the poor don’t pay taxes.

So you’re not right.