it’s pretty evident that about 45% of the country think that being a selfish twat is their entitlement

Yeah but.... would they even notice?  It already sounds like it’s missing a cylinder.  

I’ll bet any amount of money you want that ain’t gonna stop the HD Crew from trying.

If only we were like the rest of the civilized world and didn’t have ridiculously loud pipes coming right up beside my car with a jackass going “VROOOOMMMMMM!!!! Pop pop pop pop VROOOOOOOMMM!!!”.... then I could get behind these bills. Otherwise... I hope it dies.

Not really. That just passing the buck. Jeff might have done a shitty job hiring someone to build his boat, but he doesn’t seem to be backing out of the deal. If he didn’t like it, he should have walked away and eaten the deposit and/or penalties for early contract termination. Then let the courts figure out a fight…

That would be a dispute between Jeff and his contractor. But you build a disaster guess who owns the disaster? YOU DO. Not your contractor. You can sue’em, try to get some money out of it, but at the end of the day, you paid for the mess so now its your mess. If Jeff doesn’t want to be involved, there’s an easy out -…

Sure, I don’t disagree. And Jeff should fire the shipbuilder, or at least seek financial restitution. But that’s between Jeff and his contractors... and maybe the courts. Nobody else should be put out because Jeff didn’t make sure his contractor wasn’t doing dumb stuff. Ultimately, it’s the buyer’s money on the line,…

It isn’t ALL black and white.... but THIS certainly is. Jeff should have thought about that before making his big boaty boat. It’s unreasonable to think a single person can financially blackmail an entire city to do its bidding because he wants a boaty boat that’s nicer than other boaty boats. Jeff could have easily…

We can’t.  The bridge fell down.  One dot was on one side and the other dot was on the other side.  

The New York Times reported the bridge was last inspected in September. I have to think either the inspection needs to be more rigorous or the inspection more or less says “Yeah, no.  This is a fail” and then we need politicians to fix this problem, if nothing more than close the sucker.  The finger pointing is going…

So you’re saying you ignore all stoplights and stop signs then? Because not all stoplights and stop signs are 100% effective 100% of the time at stopping wrecks, I’m therefore assuming you believe its your right to ignore them completely as being useless.

This is a common error people make, but really existing student loan debt and current tuition costs have little to do with one another as far as a ‘conversation’ exists today. Think of it this way - if you snapped your fingers and the existing student loan problem is magically solved, the costs of tuition aren’t and…

The median amount of student loan debt is $0. ZERO.

Both parties aren’t the same.... Republicans get their (evil, IMHO) agenda done while Democrats give excuses why they can’t get their agenda done. Then Democrats have the temerity to whine when voters criticize them.

That’s overtly simplistic. It assumes we, the voters, can predict with some reliability that the people we vote for now will, in the future, behave as we predict they will behave. There’s nothing that forces a politician from holding their word.

By definition, if something consistently happens, then you’ve got a systemic problem. Identifying it might be hard, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t there.

This is the correct answer. Democrats held the House from roughly 1950 until 1995. The controlled the Senate on and off during that time, as well as the Presidency. Democrats rested on their laurels assuming a non-partisan judiciary would protect them from having to do the hard work and enshrine rights into law. The…

The history of the death of the center is actually a bit simpler. Conventional wisdom from roughly FDR until into the 90's was roughly 30% are do or die left, about 30% are do or die right, and (particularly Presidential) elections are won or lost by swaying the 40% in the center even if they lean one way or the other.…

You can’t really break the two-party system without major amendments to the Constitution. As long as we don’t have the word “proportional” in any house of Congress, anything but a two party is highly unlikely.  Those countries that have a 3rd party rarely have a really effective or functional third party.  They tend…

That was my first thought - let’s go after all the fathers NOT paying child support as they should THEN we can talk about any additional kids and the economic burden that might require.  It’d still be a stupid idea but at least lets get our priorities straight.