But the threat of prison time means nothing to them, precisely because there are different prisons for ‘poors’ and ‘rich’. Beyond that, he’s got his personal resources AND a network of favors he can call in or hand out to manipulate the system into reducing his sentence or putting him in a country-club prison or both,…

Heh. No need to get quite so medieval. For the Redcap In Chief, all the punishment necessary involves connecting every room in the prison with ramps at about a 7% slope, and making sure that the cafeteria serves ‘international’ food (noodles, enchiladas, salad) and NO ‘hamberders’.
And, of course, there’s not a drop of…

Amusingly enough, William Shatner’s “TekWars” series provides one possible solution: cryogenic suspension.
Basically, the convicted get drop-kicked into the future. All of their social networks have moved on, their skills have degraded in value, and quite a lot of the blackmail material they may have on certain folk…

“Give us all your money, because we deserve it and you don’t! You’re starving because you don’t have any money? SUCK IT, POORS! GO FORAGE LIKE THE ANIMALS YOU ARE!”
And yet, people STILL vote for these types...

So. Hypothetical question.
Premise: one resident of a small town installs solar panels and wind turbines on their personal property, alongside upgrades to appliances and the house itself.
Result: a net-surplus of energy that the resident can then sell back to the local electrical utility.
Question: Are there any specific…

All I can say is that I am deeply grateful that we never got to find out for certain.

“What we have here is a failure to understand the enemy.”
Seriously.
I want to see a wide-ranging study comparing representational samples of folks who self-identify as BLM, Antifa, Proud Boys, Oathkeepers, and pretty much any other ‘notable group’ active in the current political/cultural clash in the U.S., and figure…

I’ve read somewhere that the most reliable path to bring a MAGAcap out of the rabbit-hole is to offer a path that preserves their dignity. The more a victim builds a self-image around “I believe in QAnon” and “I believe the Earth is flat” (among others), the stronger the emotional ties to those concepts. Those…

Agreed. Some of the most fascinating examples of deep psychological symbolism in religious-based folktales center on the ‘seeker’ being forced to face the parts of themselves that they fear, hate, and avoid at all costs. Getting one’s face shoved in front of something reflecting our very worst selves is not something…

A fascinating question... answered in a fashion that really missed the mark. Why did you ‘simply’ list these particular schools, as opposed to presenting your selection process and criteria?

Also, the white supremacists’ “foot soldiers” are fundamentally incapable of seeing the real long view, preferring instead to simply see a ‘beautiful landscape populated exclusively by blonde-haired, blue-eyed pale-complexioned folk’.
They have no understanding of long-term health risks (viz.: the high number of heavy…

For a political party that keeps repeating ‘the facts do not care about your feelings, the Republicans sure do get their own feelings hurt on a frequent basis.

I wrap this list up with, perhaps, the cookbook with the title Most Likely To Turn Off Any ‘Serious’ Cook: “The Werewolf Cookbook”

Third, we have “M20 The Mage Cookbook”.

Next up, we have “Dinner & Dice”, containing a wide variety of different dishes presented by luminaries within the tabletop role-playing game industry.

I begin with a cookbook inspired by the Grandfather Of Them All, Dungeons & Dragons, entitled “Heroes’ Feast”.

*peals of hearty laughter*

A gun-friendly acquaintance of mine pointed out that the NRA basically took Big Tobacco’s strategy one step further, by insisting that all gun-violence research was ‘tainted by pre-conceived notions’. Like, say, the idea that gun-wielding people kill more people than non-gun-wielding people. So, hiding behind the…

To see the answer more clearly, turn the question on its head: why does college tuition cost so much in the first place? There are entire countries in Europe whose laws and national economic structures basically eliminate ‘tuition’ as we Americans understand the term; the government pays for housing, food, books, and…

Strictly speaking, white supremacists have not “infiltrated” the country’s police departments; the grammatical construction implies a cause and effect order that history demonstrates runs in the other direction. More accurate to say that leftists and progressives have “infiltrated” an inherently racist institution…