Nah, you’re confused. No Republican is concerned about debt. If the were they wouldn’t be Republican, as no Republican since Eisenhower has done a damn thing to reduce the national debt. Republicans are only worried about people getting stuff for”free” and saying fuck it to the common good.

“But it’s a *dry* indifference”

There’s no ‘I’ in “team,” but there is one in “uppity.”

Do you also like him because he is articulate?

I have no sympathy.

You’re right: the South should get over it. Lost Cause ‘n all.

Everytime I read his name i read klansmann instead.

If only Philly had a coach named Sherman...

I think that men can be perceived as “accidentally sexy” whereas a woman in sexy clothes is more clearly trying to be sexy. People see shirtless photos of Jim Morrison and many people will think he is sexy, but Jim could say, “this is just me being men, if you think I am sexy, that’s your thing.” A man in a suit and…

NPR had a really interesting piece by the chef and owner of a Vietnamese restaurant the other week, in which he argued that a celebration of cheap ethnic food is effectively a form of racism that expects immigrant labor to work long hours for little pay in order to produce cheap authentic food, and that it also…

Apparently the Buss family hasn’t learned the lessons of the Treaty of Verdun.

For Americans, this is like saying a Cuban-Am kid born in Miami is more Cuban than American just because he grew up around the strong immigrant culture. Or more specifically, a kid in Houston whose grandparents moved from Mexico. Maybe I’m wrong, but I’m going to wager that’s a silly thing to assume. Same as I’d bet…

Indeed, born and raised in Gelsenkirchen, which, if I remember correctly, is the capital of the Turkish region of Germany and was formerly called Constantinople.

Ah, yes, the claims that companies have pledged to stay in the U.S. because of Trump.

“They either need to replace drivers with automation, or monopolize the market significantly enough to set profitable rates.”

Violence between uighurs and han chinese has been an issue in the northwest for a long time. Because the uighurs are predominantly muslims China lumps the whole thing in as part of the global fight against islamic extremists, which by and large it is not.

The attacks are typically with knives or rocks- small items. The response by the Chinese state kills dozens and arrest hundreds.

She’s not saying the corporations aren’t paying enough back into society, she’s saying the owners of those corporations aren’t paying enough back into society.

The first is debatable (I’m coming around to the idea that corporate taxes should be lower), but the second is inarguable (if we’re gonna cut corporate taxes,…

The argument is that they aren’t paying *enough* to justify the increased benefits they derive from those services — not that they aren’t paying at all. Having lots of minimum wage workers on welfare because the minimum wage isn’t a living wage is a fairly prime example of this, I think - nobody would argue that…

A moral argument works very well. Hillary did not make that. She made a “I’m reasonable he’s scary” argument.