For context, I graduated from a reasonably good public high school in California in 1990.

Touché. I owe you liquor.

I’ll bet you a crisp Tubman that a roll of paper towels is literally the heaviest thing he can shoot like that.

You’re not wrong. It already happened in California with open carry laws.

My Ficus of Liberty died in the corner of my dorm room over Christmas break 20 years ago.

We’re pretty hard to defend. I’d find another hobby.

And a lone wolf. Or suffering from mental illness. It’s just an isolated incident. Move along.

White people are already sending thoughts and prayers. What more do you want?

I think there were several explanations offered above.

Don’t forget driving with “suspicious” amounts of cash. You can’t do that anymore, either.

You may be right, but in practical terms it nets Stig’s wife an extra $350 a month to spend, so even given back to the bank it’s a long-term win for the individual and for the “shopping = healthy economy” crowd.

Your post reminds me a little bit of Ken Burns’ Vietnam War series that is airing right now. After talking about the shootings at Kent State, the narrator said something like 58% of the public approved of the way the national guard had responded to the students. White middle America has always been horrible.

“Is there a formula here that Democrats at the national level can pay attention to? Yes. Politics are local, and effort matters.”

As one article writer to another, good luck! I definitely take your point, but I generally don’t cite authors in comment sections because it can sometimes lead to the logical fallacy of equating the messenger with the message.

I thought we were talking about job creation, but what you’re referring to here is called tax incidence. There are lots of studies, going far back even to a 1962 study by Friedman (Ronnie Raygun’s economic advisor, not exactly a flaming liberal) and Harberger on how tax incidence almost entirely falls on shareholders…

“that demand high tax dollars which kill good job creation”

Well, I meant “you” as in, anyone traveling with their dog, which will inevitably be in the cargo hold of some plane somewhere if you ship them by air, and therefore sharing the same air as the human passengers.

I’m not sure shipping your dog below will mitigate risk for a person who suffers anaphylaxis from being around animals any more than moving him/her to another part of the plane, as I believe the cabin and pressurized cargo area share the same air system. The air in the fuselage is also very clean: Boeing says their…

I agree. Mitigate your own damn risk. Don’t expect other passengers to change their travel plans at the last minute because you didn’t call the airline in advance. I’ve been on so many, many flights where we couldn’t eat nuts or shellfish or some other thing because of someone’s allergy. My guess is that if you told…

Yeah, agreed. Like I was trying to say, and maybe didn’t express very well, the only thing I can think of is if someone wants to buy out some of your TA/RA time. I know TAs that are not only paid for teaching or grading, but also for doing things like transcribing, running focus groups, and other shit like that. The…