My grandfather came here from Hercegovina when he was 16. He had the address of a family friend in New York City and heard a rumor that there was a concrete plant somewhere in New York that hired Croatians. There was, but as far as I can tell he never worked there. He worked odd jobs, moved around to the homes of…

This having worked so well everywhere else it’s been tried. There’s a reason that according to the 2009 UN Human Development Index report, Mississippi, if it were regarded as a sovereign nation, would rank below Kazakhstan on measures of civilisation.

Are we sure there’s not just some barrier island somewhere we could deport them to, like Escape from New York or something? Because otherwise you’re going to have border militias in neighboring states demanding the right to shoot the sharia missionaries.

Maybe we can take a page from the way we handled the Natives and…

I mean, it’s a funny line, but moving us to the metric system is 1000000x more beneficial and sane than anything anybody uttered on stage last night.

You know why this shit is happening? Because it’s “The Game.” These people know that the only way the Capitalist Media Machine will deem them newsworthy is they make a completely calculated but totally ignorant sound bite. Because “YOU’LL NEVER BELIEVE WHAT DONALD TRUMP SAID TONIGHT!” while the reasonable candidates…

Ironic that the debate took place at the Reagan library because Reagan (aka “Republican Jesus”) would not have a chance in today’s Rep Party. He raised taxes several times, supported amnesty for immigrants, doubled the deficit, and signed a gun control bill into law.

It’s not half of America that’s the problem - just around 27%.

Cue whiny Republicans whining that Deadspin is too liberal, despite Albert being 100% correct here.

I don’t think you know what communism or socialism actually mean. Sanders is, truly, party to neither of those ideas in full. Further, what does the qualifier “boring” have to do with the noun “liar?” Would you rather an exciting or entertaining liar who wages a global war and robs its constituency blind?

If I had a time machine and went back in time, I would talk with John Rockefeller, possibly the wealthiest man in history. I would tell him that I could travel to China in a half a day. That I could talk to any person on the planet and hear not only his voice, but also see his face, in real time from anywhere. All…

Haha yes! When I was a kid I went through a period where I really, really believed in god. It's comforting! Someone is looking out for you. Eventually I figured out that I didn't believe, so much as I WANTED to believe, and those are very different things. I wish I could - it makes things so much easier. Not…

You know, I kind of did. Went to Catholic school grades 1-8, then public high school. In 1968 I was the only kid with divorced parents in the whole school. Fourth grade. It was mortifying. But the nuns could not have been kinder to me. Were there some mean, bitter old women? Yes. But for the most part they were…

I have good associations with my super-conservative religious upbringing, but as I get older and learn more and expand my horizons, the more I can look back with a critical eye and understand what was good and what was potentially harmful. My sister is the same, and we like to laugh about some of the ridiculous things…

I was baptized, raised, and confirmed in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), which is the largest and most tolerant "flavor" of the US Lutheran churches (Wisconsin and Missouri Synod are the conservative, "suffer not a woman to speak" versions). While I don't have any negative memories about growing up…

I was raised by godless atheist culturally Jewish parents who also had a strange personal affinity for Greek and Russian Orthodox art and architecture. As a result, I was very religiously confused as a child. When I was little, we lived in Germany, where religion class was mandatory, although parents could opt out…