These aren’t exactly geniuses we’re dealing with. I’m leaning more and more toward the idea that any evidence of impeachable offenses by Trump is highly circumstantial at best, nonexistent at worst. Anything major could have ended this investigation early on. I’m hoping I’ll be pleasantly surprised, but not much.

This is somehow worse than thinking that people working multiple jobs affects the unemployment rate, or thinking that $3 billion in tax breaks for Amazon is the same as having a pile of $3 billion in cash sitting there not being used? At least this decision is pragmatic and practical.

Fair points, though I’m not convinced letting what has to be by anyone’s definition an immoral government provide those social services is necessarily any more moral than businesses doing it, either voluntarily or due to societal pressures. So long as it’s getting done and people are better off, isn’t it kind of six…

I don’t necessarily agree with Thomas in rolling back libel protections, because people shouldn’t be able to bring libel suits willy-nilly to silence legitimate critics, but on the other hand, it’s far too easy for publications to publish things they either can’t prove or know (or should know through journalistic…

Let’s see. Companies voluntarily giving workers a pathway to an ownership stake in their company, providing healthcare coverage because it’s the right thing to do, and helping employees go to school which makes for happier and more productive employees, especially if they go to school for a subject that may help them…

Man, I never thought we’d be thanking bureaucracy for being slow moving and unmotivated, but well, here we are.

On the contrary, the author was musing on what would happen if he encountered a human monster in real life that he couldn’t beat. I was simply reassuring him that the odds of that being the case, especially if he decides to be prepared for it, are very, very low. Given the types of comments usually seen here and on…

... almost 40,000 gun deaths were reported in 2017. The idea that there was a shooter nearby our hospital was horrifying. My fear turned into anger as I sat there helplessly with my wife and my daughter, wondering what was going to happen next. I had to start calculating, what do I do if a shooter gets into the…

The fact that in 2019 we still have to deal with such jingoistic bullshit like a pledge of allegiance makes my head and heart hurt. I don’t hate my country, but goddamn I don’t feel a need to go through a performative exercise to prove it. This kid should be held up as an example of what’s good about the individualism…

Where criminals get their guns: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/guns/procon/guns.html

Clinton ignored the entire middle of the country, which Trump just so happened to flip, but sure, blame it on a scumbag like Weiner if it makes you feel better.

Or, he would’ve gotten someone who could pass a background check to buy one for him. Which is what most criminals do anyway aside from stealing them. So unless you make guns illegal, or start handing out the death penalty for straw purchasers, you’re never going to create a system that prevents that.

You do realize that people don’t have to be strapped to bombs to set them off, yes? And that a terrorist in Nice, France killed 100 people with a box truck? Should we put explosive sniffers at the entrance to every building and require a background check to rent a U-Haul? C’mon.

What astounds me is that they have so much faith in a government that is so utterly unwilling and entirely unable to guarantee their safety. These are the same types of people that will spend countless hours railing against the police and the military, Trump being in office, and a system that is systemically racist,…

Funny, my guns never shot anyone on their own. Must be one of these smart guns I keep hearing about deciding someone needed shooting. Curse my lazy guns!

Yeah... that would work if I was against all those things.

The only thing you would accomplish by making firearms illegal or more difficult to get would be to increase the number of people willing to illegally get a firearm once they decide they need one. That’s it. And once you justify to yourself one illegal act, it becomes much easier to justify others. So congrats, if…

No other “civilized” country in the world covers as much geographic space or has as much cultural diversity or systemic racial problems as us. If it weren’t guns, it would be something else. If guns were really the problem, you’d never leave your house. You’re probably surrounded by guns every day and you’d never know.

It isn’t just that he owned a firearm illegally. He passed a background check as a convicted felon. That should have never happened in the first place. But, when government can’t even get that right, they say that if they can expand background checks to private sales too, or restrict the kinds of guns people can own, t…

Yeah... except gun violence overall is at the lowest point in decades, and mass shootings are no more common than they were 25 years ago, but sure, you keep thinking that it’s a national emergency.