This is what running a government like a business looks like. A CEO issues directives which have to be followed immediately, and then people on the ground struggle to figure out what that actually means for what they’re doing, and over the next few weeks you figure it out and fix it all retroactively. Which is fine,…

It is a story about the necessity of healthcare.

Did you not watch Wargames? The political implications of tic-tax-toe were at the heart of it.

I was surprised she didn’t mention that — if you were a Dwarf, you pretty much knew who you were going to support. Either Bhelen had set you up to be executed (if you were a noble) or Bhelen was the father of your sister’s child, which might eventually lead to that child being on the throne (commoner).

Part of it is that we become acculturated to the voting traditions of the places we grow up. If you grew up in a state where you can register to vote on Election Day, it won’t even occur to you to register months ahead of time.

The real problem is that elections in New York State are designed to depress turnout.

Texas remains a fabulous state to be *from*.

Yeah, I was using the caps as implied quotation marks. They certainly have a tendency to fall into their own orthodoxy, just not the one they were supplied by “the man.”

Yeah, that’s pretty much always been true — I remember my high school Govt teacher pointing it out in the 80's.

Yeah, AA was only really helpful for my wife when she was going to all-female or all-LGBT groups, because they were able to reframe a lot of that stuff.

In my industry we’re starting to see a move back to US production because “time to market” is becoming increasingly important, and shipping times are so long that it is more profitable to pay a little more for higher production costs and make it up in premium prices to consumers for being first. (Or more accurately,…

I don’t know if Sanders would have beaten Trump. What I do know is that it should have been obvious that Clinton couldn’t win.

I have Aspergers. If a rule is unspoken, it doesn’t exist. I also will never notice if something I do pains you if you don’t tell me.

So, to throw some nuance on this.

As someone who lives in Michigan, if her campaign truly believed they were winning Michigan by 5%, then they were stupid.

Of course. But atheists start from a framework of belief, too, often something like that the scientific method is the best way to approach understanding the universe.

There’s no external creed, but you do work towards designing your own personal credo. Which could look like anything you like — our church tended towards artwork rather than verbal statements of belief — but at the end of the day you wanted to be able to point to *something* that you believed in, even if it were only…

UU requires a belief in something. Just not a belief in anything in particular.

I paid $70 for mine, and thought it was a steal at the time.

I’m going to point you towards the Tuesday edition of Brad Friedman’s show — he goes into great detail on this. I’ve also seen articles about this in the Detroit paper — this is primarily a Wayne County issue.