Open floor plans are definitely a bit overrated right now. But it’s natural- open floor plans give a great first impression when you walk in, so they show better. And people tend to buy a house with socializing in mind, even if they don’t ever end up doing it, and the open floor plans are better for that.

Yes, those martyrs who went there specifically to get arrested and then were without any incidents.

The problem with a living wage is so incredibly varied in the US. San Francisco costs twice as much as most rural areas, so the living wage there is double. Even then, it’s completely different according to household situation. For a single person with no kids, it’s usually less than $15. For a single mom with three…

There’s never been a minimum wage increase that includes so many people. Economists haven’t been able to model it. All we have are both sides doing some small, polemic studies.

This would be a better argument if Donald Trump wasn’t being called Hitler on a daily basis.

Really though, any number of one or two point swings could’ve saved her. There are all kinds of things she could’ve done differently, or just had better luck with timing on some things, that would’ve meant she won it all.

Minimum wage increases don’t stimulate growth. They’ve been a very minimal drag on jobs throughout most of our past wage hikes and neutral to even more minimal in terms in inflation. They’ve been pretty much non-events one way or the other over the past 85 years.

That one was indefinite too.

Yeah, it’s just the usual fear mongering. We can probably place the “Millenials love facism” books next to the “End of the Stock Market” books from 2009. Right now, some bad things have happened in some democracies. But that’s usually an indication that the bad guys are under pressure because they’re losing the…

Old men say to do it. Young men are dumb enough to do it despite being able to defeat old men in a war. In guy world, that means it’s the young men’s fault.

You’d think both liberals and conservatives would learn not to predict who a shooter is. Nothing is dumber than the people who’ve already decided exactly who the shooter is and why he’s shooting before we have any information.

Yeah, every mass shooter, or stabber in this case, has been self-radicalized.

Or in TMZ’s case, ignore it to get access to a star.

There are ten or eleven states that allow concealed carry on campuses, plus a few more that let the school decide. There have been no issues to date with a rise in suicides or homicides.

It’s been great to see a woman of color get to be a full character, warts and all, and anchor a show. Seems like it’s not that hard to hire more. If you want to beat the competition, get the stories we haven’t heard 100 times.

Do you want them to RUIN THE INTEGRITY OF THE AVN AWARDS by not giving them out just because a guy is a rapist (or accused of it like six times anyway)? Before you know it, politics will become more important than how well someone can take a money shot to the face. Way to go S-J-Dubya’s! You’ve ruined the porn awards!

Even if you’re racist...that guy? Who would look at him and think “armed robber”?

Yeah, you’d hope so. The problem is that anytime someone is generating millions as a brand, the people making money off of it will cover up anything to keep the coffers full. And unfortunately, the money celebrities generate keeps getting higher and higher.

One thing I find disturbing now that I’m old and have seen it so many times, is how often people are exactly who they’re telling you they are. People have the need to make situations okay in their heads, and the perpetrators know how to use that. Add in all of the romantic notions people seem to need about art, and…

It’s yet another example of how the world isn’t going to change nearly as much as we’ve been told. Supposedly the world is going to end, yet all the same petty arguments as before the election keep going on and on. The media is showing that they’re not going to change provided the ratings/clicks stay good. People are…