Politics has always been tribalism. For most of human history it was explicitly nothing else. The idea that politics could be anything more - could be a constructive, unifying force - is a concept of liberalism that is fading away as liberalism fades away.

Yikes. That's like a 5 1/2 minute mile (faster than I could ever do) for 26 miles.

What makes you think gun-grabbing is what made him unpopular in the democratic primary? It's the one thing that temporarily resuscitated his campaign when it was on life support last time. Do you NRA trolls ever think before regurgitating your talking points?

Actually prohibition worked better than you probably think it did. Public misconceptions to the contrary, it was extraordinarily successful at reducing alchohol consumption, which was reduced to 30% of pre-prohibition levels and only moved back towards status quo ante as the will to effectively enforce prohibition…

The real problem with this social darwinist argument, whenever it’s trotted out, is that we are all idiots who need to be protected from ourselves. Yes, you too; believing yourself superior to the rest of the sheeple is a sure sign of dunning-kruger status.

All in all, you're just another brick in the wall.

Yup, that is an accurate representation of how the boomers actually ended up.

Setting aside a lot of fuckery leading up to the climax, a lot of which never made it to public view: new management violated the staff’s contractually-guaranteed editorial independence, as a means of wiping away editorial leanings which were offensive to them personally but which were the primary drawing card for…

Free advertising/positive word of mouth from a pleasurable test drive is always a good thing. The dealers you’re talking about would benefit from handing out test drives even to people with no interest in buying now.

Yup. The rule of thumb as always is that if you are considering buying something because you need it, not because you want it, wait for the initial impulse to wear off and then see if you still want to buy.

I‘m a werewolf, okay? Let's not make a big deal out of it.

A box (a crate, really) with a man inside it would weigh 200 lbs. You’d need a forklift to move it, no way does it get delivered to somebody’s office, without prior authorization no less. And nobody asks for a man-sized crate of what they think is office supplies to be delivered to their personal office space. It…

The answer is "because the prison system is that negligent". Anybody who wanted epstein dead didn't need to have him killed, all they had to do was do nothing and let nature take its course.

There’s also the “global warming is good” crowd, along with the “we’re all about to be raptured anyways” folks. And there’s a difference between the “the science isn’t settled” folks and the “science is a satanic leftist lie” folks.

That nobody will ever read ... Or so you thought.

This is great. "Taylor, your lyrics are too banal to be tortious."

The real outrage here is that the committee is so hung up on win percentage, rather than fundmentals, that a team so unworthy that it let itself fall behind ksu by 25 points would still have received playoff consideration had it fluked into a win in this game. Had OU won here and gone undefeated it would still have pro…

No, no, you don't understand, there are very fine people on both sides of this issue.

No way. There’s maybe five wins on that schedule, best case scenario, i.e. just enough to ruin their draft position.

Disparaging reference to “Capital Hill” - are we sure this guy's not a marxist?