I’m as big as a Leafs hater as anybody, but it was nice to see them win this one.

Not that it would make much of a difference but the complete and total senselessness of what happened is really weighing on me. Not that terrorism ever makes sense but at least if there’s a defined political goal in a crazy act there’s a rallying point around which for people to stand up defiantly and say they won’t…

Time and a place, champ. This is neither.

I only quote this because it’s the best rule number in the game. Rule 69 (specifically, 69.7) states pretty clearly,

Fuck off with that take. In today’s NHL you can’t take a cheap shot worthy of suspension and justify it by saying it’s retaliation for an uncalled 2-minute minor.

Bad take of the night right here

it could very well result in further discipline.

That isn’t even close to goaltender interference. What are you talking about?

To be fair there are few guys in the world who know as much about being the #2 player on a great team as McHale.

35 years ago Simple Minds did promise us this.

“or compensure for shitting writing”

That’s not remotely true. There are many different types of intelligence.

A pedant, however, is very likely to get hung up on inane details.

My point is that it shouldn’t be necessary to risk death. Canada, Australia, and New Zealand accomplished precisely the goals that “boys of ‘76" demanded—legislative independence—without committing treason and fighting a war, because Britain accepted that legislative independence was both just and (given their…

Secession threatens the survival of the union. That was why Lincoln went to war to stop it.

Spain shouldn’t exist. It’s essentially a hodgepodge of nationalities which was brought together by force and politics at the end of the Middle Ages; this is FAR from the first Catalan revolt against Madrid.

I can’t comment on corruption, but I would point out that “local leaders are corrupt” is not a great argument against self-determination. By that logic, Britain should reassert control over half of Africa to prevent the rapacious corruption of post-independence African leaders.

Whether it is illegal or not makes no difference as to whether or not it is immoral.

“Imagine if California decided to vote on secession. Why would we, the other 49 states, allow it to proceed?”

A number of rural Colorado counties did in fact vote on secession during the Obama era. Granted, it was to secede from Colorado and form their own state because they couldn’t stand Democrats running the…

I’m looking at the Spanish government response and thinking it’s completely ridiculous. There was no indication that independence would have been the favored choice and the central government could always deny the legitimacy of the vote anyway. Now the separatists have exactly what they want.