I’m more concerned with people who have no business legally buying firearms attempting to do so. A more full amendment not specifically targeting undocumented people would have been preferable but I’ll take what I can get. If that amendment deters 100 people a year from buying firearms, then it’s done its job. If an…

Come on. No one is arguing against the passage of the full bill, they’re arguing specifically against the unnecessary amendment. AOC voted for the full bill.

If Medicare for All really includes all the features you mention, why is it called Medicare for All?

Pelosi encompasses the modern Democratic Party. I believe they want to make lives better for the middle class but don’t want to upset the financial status quo. Which basically in the end means doing nothing.

I love Trump’s whining. Like, Don: it doesn’t fucking matter what the original investigation was around. When your stooges make statements about other illegal shit you did, law enforcement and Congress are required to investigate that shit. It’s their job.

That just sums up the Republican philosophy so perfectly— “So what if lives were ruined and the perpetrators were protected by our sacred institutions? We got some more trophies and the chance to congratulate ourselves on our loyalty and our respect for tradition!” Jim Jordan should be in the pervert-enablers hall of…

What’s the over and under for Kushner breaking? Don Jr?

Not to defend Crichton, but a lot of science fiction is about Science (well, really Technology) Going Wrong, even from writers who do not curdle into reactionary anti-science conspiracy theorists.

It was approved by Crichton’s estate, so I’m guessing it’s probably neither.  Generally estates are pretty good at that sort of thing.

It was a fantastic book. And absolutely not something my dad should have bought for me when I was 10 years old! I remember lying awake at night for a month straight, terrified of freaking ebola!

Beth- The Hot Zone was non-fiction, not a novel, about Ebola and other very scary hemorrhagic viruses. Richard Preston writes in a very engaging, sensationalized style that reads like fiction and the book did seem to at least inform, if not inspire, a lot of interest in these diseases and their depiction in fictional…

I’m not sure how I feel about someone completely unrelated to the author adding onto the IP. It seems a bit tacky and disrespectful.

I personally love how these idiots with armchair economics degrees have so much to say about this.

Can you even hear yourself?

Because less consumption of sugar and carbonation never made anyone healthier?

Can it be that people flight to another city just to avoid the soda tax? I mean, instead of going to the nearest store and tax be damned. Couldn’t believe it was possible to trump your cravings enough to save a few cents.

Why tax soda because it might reduce consumption?

I agree, people in Berkeley aren’t human.

Can’t tell if this is sarcasm.