Why use 3 drugs, when 1 will do: fentanyl or carfentanyl. It’s readily available everywhere (especially in the states were executions take place) and the condemned will experience a brief state of euphoria, and it might even serve as a deterrent to people using synthetic opiates (and nothing else, since capital…

Even if you agree that student athletes shouldn’t be paid for their work, they should still be treated a lot better than they are. They should receive guarantees of a 4-year education, including room & board, as well as a stipend for textbooks, etc. This is especially important if they are injured and are unable to…

Trump’s tax plan is more horseshit than I even thought was possible. Not only will it add more and more onto the deficit ($2 trillion over the next 10 years), but it will only further increase income and wealth inequality in this country. I can understand lowering the top marginal rate, while also eliminating…

It’s important to distinguish between “free speech” and “political speech”. The former is that general concept that anyone can say whatever they want (although it’s not clear whether this can actually be read as the right to make people listen to what you have to say), and the latter is what the 1st Amendment…

I’m sure Ivanka is already starting to learn (given how smart we’ve been assured she is) that she doesn’t get to have it both ways. She can be the loyal daughter, or she can be a respectable person (independent of her father*) who makes her beliefs publicly known and is willing to defend them. Now, there is a…

But you’re still be paying a lower effective tax rate (total taxes paid, divided by total income from all sources), even though you likely paid more dollars in taxes than HamNo. Are you actually “paying taxes twice” if you only pay on the gain above your initial investment (which you’ve already paid taxes for)? It…

Interesting read. It’s also funny to think that at one point, being a “fiscal conservative” meant having a balanced budget, whether it involved cutting spending or increasing taxation. That latter option is no longer in the “fiscal conservative” toolbox.

Might this be a good thing? Don’t French people hate being told what to do by Americans, especially boorish assholes like Trump?

For some of these things like general use of the word “Bae”, there’s probably not much that can be done. Clothing companies are going to appropriate popular sayings (whether the person who coined them is black or white) because they can, and it sells. While it’s unethical, it’s still legal—unless someone has a…

While I agree that those safeguards and standards need to be in place, there’s really nothing stopping truck drivers, airline pilots or industrial workers from using marijuana on the job now. Sure, they can get in trouble if they are drug tested, but unless you’re testing them every week (which is expensive), they’re…

Didn’t the democrats in Congress also win their elections? And isn’t the whole separation of powers, checks and balances thing what’s supposed to make our democracy function? I’m sure if Trump wanted to do some things that weren’t awful, stupid and ineffective, there would be some support. However, I’m not even…

Capital punishment is racist, retrograde and ultimately pointless (except for that warm and fuzzy feeling it tends to give southern white conservatives who love talking about “justice” being served). But if we’re going to do it, why use a combination of 3 drugs that have the ability to cause the condemned extreme…

I’m sure he’s proud of his nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. Without Gorsuch’s vote yesterday, Arkansas probably wouldn’t have been able to execute Ledell Lee only minutes before his death warrant expired. So what if the State of Arkansas wanted to use a possibly cruel and inhumane cocktail of…

Sessions is entitled to his personal beliefs that “drugs are bad”, and to not do them. But any definition of “drugs” should also include the most popular recreational drugs, Alcohol and Tobacco—just because they’re legal doesn’t mean they’re any better or less dangerous thandrugs that happen to be illegal—and in…

By eliminating the whole “Children of Ham” storyline (like the “Curse of Ham” justification used to exclude blacks from the priesthood of the Mormon church until 1978) , although it’s a nice appeal to diversity that viewers today demand, doesn’t it also paper over the whole idea that often oppressive societies often…

Although Democrats did get more votes in the Senate than Republicans, that’s not evidence of gerrymandering... unless you’re also advocating for the re-drawing of state borders. And although the Senate gives unfair representation (more voting power) to less populated states, it’s one of the aspects of our government…

It should be interesting to see what she’s like now that she’s no longer part of the Fox News clown car. None of it excuses her past racist behavior, but I’m sure that puppetmaster Ailes did much to make sure that everybody stayed “on message”. Ultimately, Fox News is a business that gets paid by advertisers (where…

One wonders if Ben Carson is still taking those Mannatech supplements, which allegedly do little else but induce farts... However, I’d rather be stuck in the elevator with just the farts, rather than Ben Carson.

I mean, this is what I’d tell him to do if I were his PR rep—get out of town, preferably someplace where you’re unlikely to encounter any reporters. Especially with all of the other shit going on right now, thanks to President Creamsicle. By the time O’Reilly is back, we’ll have moved on to several other things to…

Like, I get it, the guy has a lot of homes and shit with his name on it that needs some extra protection over what Obama needed. He also has 4 grown-ass kids, who can’t be expected to live at home. There’s a certain extent to which we just kinda have to say—that’s the cost of protecting the President and his family.…