Since you know the area you might appreciate the irony of this— I moved to Lafayette ten years ago and got sober here. Love the geography, the food, and the music... just hate local politics.

I was zipping back and forth between a live game and another window during timeouts. And yes, because of some personal family history with Baylor and their being the hatching ground for Texas AG Ken Paxton, I was quick—-TOO quick— to leap to a conclusion. So I am wearing the idiot hat, but... Baylor still sucks.

I should have read better. I will wear the dunce cap for the rest of the day for all other posters to mock me. 

Never. Gonna. Happen.

She’ll probably demand that all foreign-born players be banned unless they pay their own way to the game.

He’s a Baylor coach— his reputation is already tarnished. Their athletic department has raised institutionalized fuckery to an art form.

It’s actually pretty scary how easy it is to acquire guns legally here in Louisiana, and to acquire a concealed-carry permit. But it’s like a chainsaw or any other dangerous tool, I guess... it may be a thing you hardly ever actually need, but when you DO need it it is indispensable. Life was so much simpler when I…

The ‘rationale’ will be that it’s unreasonable to expect the police to take a person’s gun away because the Second Amendment is a right that ‘shall not be infringed’. And this creates a huge dilemma— I am a gun owner, with two pistols and a shotgun in my house. I would dearly love to feel safe enough in my home to get…

The article also mentioned that the guy had been arrested SIX TIMES by the local PD in the last ten years, including a domestic violence arrest. Hard to see how this gets through the background check.

Dying for the idea of a better future is utterly meaningless until and unless that future actually materializes. Plus, the segment of society that does most of the dying usually reaps the least portion of the benefits.

The one comforting development in all this Trumpfuckery is the idea that Turtleman Mitch has soiled his legacy as Senate leader to the point that it resembles a dirty diaper. Trump has demonstrated his incompetency beyond any reasonable debate. Mitch , on the other hand, has demonstrated his willingness to do every…

Is it just me or is there something jarring about an avowed flat-earther wearing a sweatshirt that says ‘TRUTH’?

Actually in the border states white people are stopped by CBP all the time, if they think there is any chance of catching them with even tiny/personal use amounts of drugs in their cars. Because that gives them meaningless statistical numbers to perpetuate the myth that they are ‘fighting crime’ along the border.

What evidence do you see supporting that belief? Much if not most of the world cannot afford to be concerned with anything beyond their own short-term survival, and the ones who can afford the luxury to view things in the long term repeatedly demonstrate their lack of interest in doing so.

I’d like to tell you you were dead wrong, and that people in general and Americans in particular were better than this. But, being a realist... I can’t.

Because our systems— legal, economic, political— have been mutated and corrupted to enable the desires of rich people above all other objectives, no matter how loathsome or stupid or narcissistic those people might prove themselves repeatedly to be. And the unspoken promise of those systems is that, if you’re willing…

She’s still young. Give her time— it won’t take her long to become as clueless and narcissistic as the rest of her family. Her mom and stepdad are the embodiment of the belief that there is no such thing as bad publicity.

None so blind as those who will not see.

But the entire credit economy in this country is based on the illusion that “I can afford whatever somebody will lend me”.

That old thing? It has been rendered obsolete in the hysteria that followed in the wake of 9/11 and the passing of the Patriot Act.