You sound very well-adjusted. Right-wingers defensively coined the term flyover country. Just like your defensive rant assumes everyone is making fun of you, but of course Trump voters would never make fun of ‘libruls’.  http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/03/160314-flyover-country-origin-language-midwest/

If he wanted to run for congress to pass this bill, this publicity stunt would greatly help his chances of winning the election. So it is still a good move. But even if he didn’t, he brought the attention to millions of people and increased his potential settlement amount and potentially caused change in United’s…

That’s because the extra money average citizens will pay will likely mostly go to reducing rich peoples’ tax burdens and to insurance companies, not to the federal government.

What do you do when you try to discuss policies with them to attempt to educate them and they repeatedly insult you and call you stupid for not voting for Trump because he is going to drain the swamp? Some of these people have no interest in learning anything that might contradict their worldview.

I’m curious if you teach in a major city? Things that are the norm in many cities don’t always make their way to rural high schools for a few decades.

In high school people treated weed like many people I know now treat heroine, it was seen as something that could ruin your life and only failures do it (not that that…

Woah.. sorry the joke went over your head. Re-read the comment a little slower and without all of the rage you pre-emptively had at the first word.

Trump whines about everything possible, not just this.  Unfortunately he won’t die on this hill because nobody has the courage to prosecute any of them.

However, a lot of people in their districts probably do “head to the big city” to watch college basketball games. These rural reps are probably jealous that money gets spent in the larger cities and don’t mind preventing their citizens from getting their entertainment outside of their small towns.

I interviewed for a software position at Uber. One of the interviewers made a very derogatory remark about Uber drivers, which made me start using Lyft exclusively for rides.

No, my family’s rural Catholic Church doesn’t seem to care. In the cities they might care.

I switched from Comcast to RCN internet in Boston. My bill went from ~100 to 55 and the service was much better, but I don’t have cable TV. To switch companies you can sign up for the new one and once you get it connected cancel the old service immediately. You should get a refund for the portion of the month after…

I hadn’t noticed that those places near the shore and Mattapan were that cheap because they are slightly outside of my commuting radius. That is encouraging, but those are pretty much the cheapest examples you would be able to find and it seems most communities surrounding Boston have an average closer to 500-600k if…

You can’t find housing for under 300k in MA unless you live 30-40 miles out of the city. Boston is actually cheaper than many of the surrounding white-flight suburbs. Rents are somewhat under 1k if you have multiple roommates.

I am often not even able to find these events unless someone shares them with me and I have a facebook. There needs to be a central website to find these events.

5-7pm starting at JFK park.

Yes, I met some of them in Boston and they do good work for separation of church and state and for women’s rights.

Thank you for your thought out response.

I watched the video and wanted to kill myself. That guy is a bullshit artist. He is a college stoner-hippy that never grew up. How does anyone older than 20 (being generous) take him seriously?

I just came here to say that I listened to episodes 1-5 after seeing this article and I really enjoyed it. I had one class in college that covered all of western civilizations and no ancient history in high school. I got interested in Roman History through Mike Duncan’s History of Rome podcast. You have a different…

Chris Christie was actually behind the bombings in New York so that the bridgegate revelations wouldn’t be all over the headlines of the local news.