Thanks for your personal anecdote, but I’m gonna take the word of the people who are using actual science, thanks.

My parents never just gave me alcohol underage but my dad talked to me constantly about HOW to drink when I got older.

Isn’t there scientific evidence* that it reprograms the receptors in their brain, as a teenager’s brain is undergoing major reconstruction up until the age of 22, so it makes them more likely to crave more alcohol? That’s why I wouldn’t give it to them.

Bear in mind this study was done in Australia, where the legal drinking age is 18. The results may be somewhat different in other nations where the age is higher or lower. For example supervised alcohol consumption at 18 might be very beneficial for teens in the US.

*Unless you want to be the cool parent

This article should be taught in a class on how the left cares more about moral superiority than winning a war of ideas and actually enacting progresive change. The lives of undocumented people are actually worth less to the author than his own smugness.

Yeah why aren’t they bringing all the dreamers who commit rape and murder to the state of the union. Great article Jorge.

Brady should have said something like “Yeah, we caught her in a bad mood and kids are like that sometimes”.

Yes, we all know 5 year olds are annoying pissants. I’m not sure how many people would be kosher with someone calling their kid that though.

Honestly, what else was the Times supposed to do? The incidents described in the Vox article did not seem to involve breaking the law nor were any NY Times employees apparently involved, so workplace sexual harassment was also not at issue. Under these circumstances I can imagine that a suspension and sexual…

That’s not true- I’m not a US citizen and my husband is, and we live abroad. When we go to the embassy, we’re a straight couple walking in with a birth certificate to make our kids American, and the clerk there quietly picks up a sign asking if we’ve used any reproductive assistance. (they do it quietly, because…

If you look at the metrics that Amazon wants, Boston is probably the perfect city with the exception of “space.” Denver wins it all is my bet, but in either case, where the fuck are all these people going to live? I know people who commute to office parks on 495 from Greenfield because the housing market even in…

Some public libraries are called “free” libraries (I think harking back to when that was maybe a new concept... not sure). For example, the public library in New Haven, CT is called the “new Haven Free Public Library.” That isn’t to mean that there are pay-libraries down the block... it’s just highlight the fact that…

I have to say, as someone who lives in Boston, while we (we=city of Boston, I’m obv not involved in the decision) shouldn’t have done ANYTHING to try an get Amazon to come here, at least it doesn’t look like we’re giving Amazon much (any?) in the way of tax breaks - just offering a special transition team to help them…

These pieces are getting dumber and more misguided as time goes on. Democrats are not in the majority. They literally can only make noise and make the GOP look bad. That is their only leverage. Stop undermining this only leverage.

I see funding the wall as one the greatest opportunities for political Tai Chi the Democrats have ever had.

Reread the article. Goodyear directly sold the tires to RV manufacturers for use on RVs.

I would have said no, except they had supply contracts for this tire to well-known RV makers. Nobody would mistake Fleetwood or Monaco for delivery truck makers.

Those seemed to stop when Enron went bankrupt and more regulations were added to crack down on gaming of the system. Imagine that.

Boston resident and Patriot fan here. Kirk Minihane and Gerry Callahan are as terrible of human beings as exist anywhere, so I’m not here to defend them. But just want to clarify a couple things for the sake of accuracy.