First off, I ain’t no friend of the cops and I take everything they say for granted. My friend was shot IN THE BACK and killed by a cop. My cousin was shot and killed by a cop under dubious circumstances, so I take this seriously. I have read the DOJ report and the forensics. Firstly Brown was a theft suspect and…

Yes. It’s unfortunate that Mike Brown became the marquee example of police brutality. There were some bad police tactics there that probably cost the suspect his life, i.e. Wilson should have called backup on a large robbery suspect, and he also should not have driven up next to Brown and left himself in a…

I spoke with a friend of mine who is Latino-American after the election and he said the exact same thing. I was profoundly disappointed by the election, and dreading 4-8 years of regressive, shitty government, but wasn’t quite going along with that statement. I was surprised and kinda tried to talk the guy down a…

Are you addressing me? If so, I called guns “an abomination” right off the bat. And I hope I never implied above that the Second Amendment is a good thing. I liken it to cancer.  Like cancer, it’s hard to get rid of, though. The four state gun control measures put on the ballot this year will likely have little…

Thank you. Man, we don’t have to agree on everything, but we should cooperate to run a well functioning, free democracy, and on this point, liberals simply aren’t participating.

Well, come on now. You know and I know that most people on the left want to restrict gun ownership. Fuck, I MYSELF deeply want to restrict gun ownership. Shit, I just voted last night on the California ballot to restrict magazine capacity and bullet purchases. What I am saying is literally this: The left should…

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Well, they have been executing that exact plan with alacrity for the last 30 years, so I guess we should call last night’s results richly deserved.

Penn, Michigan and Wisconsin hadn’t gone Republican in nearly 30 years. Large forces pushed them red, and guns were part of that. In all 5 of those states, gun control, or rather the fear of gun control, is at all times a major electoral issue. Was it the only thing that lost those states? No. But she only lost by…

I dunno man. HRC lost by about 1% in Florida, Michigan, New Hampshire, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Those are all huge gun-owning states. Pissing on their heads and telling them it was rain was probably not the right thing to do.

As far as X’s and O’s, blocking and tackling is concerned, why we liberals keep fighting tooth and nail for gun control? I can’t think of a more suicidal electoral policy to pursue. Of course, it’s the morally correct thing to do, since guns are an abomination, but it is political suicide. It loses us huge swaths…

Racist, yes. Sexist? Yes...but 42% of women voted Trump. Take out the minority vote and it gets downright fucking amazing. Get this from CBS exit polls: “Trump beat Clinton among white women 53 percent to 43 percent.”

I am a physician, and I see a lot of people going through grueling treatments with really, really long odds. These days in medicine, the current ethos frowns upon fighting to the bitter end, like it is some failure of acceptance or an unwillingness to use reason and logic in the face of dire odds. However, even if you…

Hold up there. What free market exactly are you talking about? Surely not our drug market that doles out patent monopolies to drug makers, and if you violate it, you will be subject to the force of numerous law enforcement agencies and will go to jail for a very long time. That is not free. It’s not even free in a…

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Oh bite me. My pods cost 70 cents a pop. My machine is the basic Nespresso and it cost 70 dollars. You can get them for 50 bucks or less around the holidays. The coffee is very good, but not great. It is wildly convenient and pods are recyclable, if not perfectly so. Nespresso is quite good. The Keurig Pods are not…

Well the robots better hurry up and start replacing us faster if it is going to be something that matters. The economic measure of productivity essentially quantifies the amount of robot work done. It is GDP divided by total hours worked (by humans). It is well known that productivity growth has been stagnant the last…

Sigh...this is why the whole “Islam isn’t a race so I can’t be racist” argument is technically true but, practically speaking, bigoted bullshit.

I have lived a funny life in this regard, having seen both sides. My family was never poor by any means but it was understood that if I wanted shit, I had to buy them. I started working when I was 15 and that was that. When I went to college, my folks still helped some, but I worked 20-30 hours a week on campus and at…