I think that it’s just a disagreement on the point of foreign policy. Is it a tool to advance your nation’s interest, or a means of disseminating a culturally western worldview to the rest of the world? Sometimes those two goals work together and it’s easy. Sometimes they are at odds and you have to decide which is…

Of course, the negative to this is that New Zealand already did have fairly strict gun laws (at least in comparison to the US) and this still happened.

Baseball is also a sport where a single dominant player does not a team make. If Harper were to sign with the Pirates, they aren’t going to win the World Series next year and probably wouldn’t even make the playoffs. It’s an incremental game. In basketball, a single dominant player can much more affect the trajectory…

No, these ambushes are always bad. They preclude debate. It makes criticism of the position impossible because of the power and knowledge imbalance. A short response comes off as dismissive and a cogent counter-argument as either patronizing or overbearing. We are left no wiser as to the Senator's intentions or plans.…

Dude, you need to tell the category for the 7-letter country question. I was sitting around thinking about Russia and whether they considered New Zealand the mainland or not and trying to figure out what the heck that question was saying. I eventually had to look it up. The category was ‘African Geography’ which makes…

This shouldn’t be unexpected. AOC is really a poster-child for Millennial pseudo-authenticity. She grew up in freaking Yorktown Heights. That’s like the land of wealthy, white yuppies. Yorktown High is 80% white and only 5% low income. It’s rich kid-landia. She then goes to Boston U which is a college full of rich…

I think all of them are in play except Kavanaugh. The court has largely been stacked with originalists, not conservatives. They tend to be allies, but they aren’t the same thing. They are against ‘made up’ constitutional rights and powers. For abortion that’s a conservative position because Roe v. Wade was a shady…

Churches are organizations with extremely broad-reaching and all-encompassing philosophies. There is a tacit acknowledgement within American Protestantism that the laity and the leadership don’t have to agree on everything. Shoot, in some churches they agree on practically nothing. Generally speaking, the church says…

Not to support owners, but MLB revenues are about 300 million a team. The Red Sox, Yankees, Dodgers, Cubs and Giants are the only teams significantly above that. Bryce Harper wants 30 million a year, the mean MLB salary is 1.5 million a year, a difference of 28.5 million. So the question is does Bryce Harper raise the…

Columbus is not a bad town, nor is it a good town. It is largely just a place. It doesn’t have a ton of flavor. German Village has a shop or two. Short North is obligatorily hipster enough to know that that’s what it’s shooting for, but not enough to be distinct in any regard. It does have a decent record store (Used…

The only caveat is as a dispatch weapon for trappers, especially on wet lines. A pistol can fit under their waders and can be more easily secured while resetting traps. Other than that, I can’t really think of why we need pistols much at all.

To be fair, Bangladeshi illegals have been crossing the border in greater numbers. They tend to cross at Laredo and are being ferried by people smugglers. It’s obviously difficult to say the exact numbers, but certainly in the hundreds since in 2017 they apprehended 181 and were on pace for nearly 400 in 2018 though I…

First off, I support Black Lives Matter and I support kneeling for the anthem or staying in the locker room as a form of peaceful protest. I did not vote for Donald Trump, and voted a nearly straight blue ticket in the last two elections. The student athletes from Minneapolis should be lauded for expressing their…

Richard Ojeda is throwing his hat in the ring. He’s famous as being the Senator most vocally in support of striking teachers. If he won the primary, that would lead to the greatest presidential debates of all time. He absolutely would take no crap from the Annoying Orange. That said, he doesn’t have a chance, the DNC…

Follows the “half plus 7" rule, he’s cool. Eight years really isn’t that big of a deal, especially since she’s out of college so they are in the same basic phase of life. He gets a pass.

I was thinking that too about Ovechkin’s hit. It was a blindside shove of a 41 year old who was watching the puck. Hardly the thing of highlight reels.

I think that the ‘Cleared It’ caption means there was no contact. He took the fall before contact was initiated. We need a slow mo angle to be sure, but that’s what I’m getting from it.

Counterpoint. She’s a 50 year old successful woman and he’s calling her ‘girl.’ What is he? An R&B singer?

Pelosi and Schumer? That’s who we pick? Two of the most hated Dems out there by both sides. A 68 and 78 year old from both coasts who looked like “the man with a beard and no hair” and “the woman with hair and no beard.” Could they possibly have chosen worse spokespeople? This was the best we could do for a primetime…

It’s actually a smart thing to say. Manchin isn’t talking to a bunch of East Coast liberals who already have their opinion molded. He’s talking to a state that voted 70% for Trump. Attacking who they voted for head on has been done to death. They know the talking points and are unconvinced, if anything those talking…