Or it is a job, which opens up doors which might otherwise be closed, and the nature of deployment is secondary to an income in a country with high structural unemployment masked by the gig economy (transient underemployment) and a decision to exclude long-term unemployed from the statistics.

Other countries have real armies, but they don’t stir the pot as often or as widely outside their borders. It kind of is our job because we arm many sides and we deploy economic pressure and we also just decide to intervene from time to time and further destabilize things. Our actions have made us, if not responsible,…

Citation needed?

Saw it on the news, on the TV news, in a black and white video.
You know what blood looks like in a black and white video?
Shadows, shadows! That’s exactly what it looks like.

Counterpoint, that movie really is terrible, and almost certainly because it drains you in increments and you never quite escape before the end, when all hope has fled, like a flaccid blue penis lost in the dust of Mars. That death by inches is indicative of a most creeping curse.

Greg Rucka.

Sounds like Overwatch needs a better port for the Switch.

I carry one, but we should - as consumers - demand at least some minimum accommodations. Margins are tight, but they’re not that tight. It isn’t reasonable to rely on banks for very long flights, anyway.

Let’s remember some guys.

That will be an incredible tome - if the government survives twenty or thirty years we may get a peek as documents are declassified.

Please, we never have leftists in government.

McDonald’s is, frankly, more nutritive.

There is a thin layer of scum that the administration has shed, odiferous and sticky, which we can look at. Underneath and undiscussed are the uncounted thousands of capable civil servants and professionals who have been forced out at the same time.

I’m resigned to it.

The goal of the Republican party has, for decades, been to sink the ship of government and cede all authority to oligarchs. This administration is unpleasant, but the end result - a dissolution of regulation and the responsibilities of government - is exactly what they want.

I think keeping the list to his supporters, rather than legitimate civil servants, is appropriate. For one thing, legitimate civil servants whose careers were cut short or derailed do not deserve further humiliation through association with his administration. For another, the list would be far too long to peruse.

Capitalism is a scourge. There you go.

That would be reasonable, just as soon as airlines start consistently providing reliable outlet power at seats.

I once dated someone who was always mistaken for my sibling. We didn’t look anything alike, but damned if a similar height, hair colour, and skin tone don’t do it for most people.

I’ve spent considerable time in those environs, and let me assure you, I never sleep.