It’s the Welfare Queen thing all over again, really. If a system is not 100% perfect in using taxpayer money and there are non-virtuous individuals using government programs, the programs themselves are clearly not worth it and should be scrapped. I mean, who cares if a program is 99% successful; if that 1% is wasting …

Parkinson’s law of triviality is C. Northcote Parkinson’s 1957 argument that members of an organisation give disproportionate weight to trivial issues.^[1] He provides the example of a fictional committee whose job was to approve the plans for a nuclear power plant spending the majority of its time on discussions about…

ALSO THE 12 POOR PEOPLE WHO WIN THE LOTTERY EACH YEAR NEED TO GET THE FUCK OFF MEDICAID ASAP AND ALSO PAY BACK MONEY

The last medical statement I got was for $500 for one procedure. As long as I don’t need any other medical care for the next two years, his analogy totally works.

rather than getting that new iPhone that they just love and they want to go spend hundreds of dollars on, maybe they should invest it in their own healthcare.

I think summer is too soon but I’d certainly prefer to be wrong about that.

“Meet the new ban; same as the old ban!”

It is truly the parable of the Good Samaritan in action. If you see a man suffering by the roadside, “temporarily” ban your refugee program and praise your christian values in the same breath.

The New York Times reported Sunday night that this version also doesn’t contain the indefinite ban on Syrian refugees entering the country.

If you don’t succeed at first, get taken to court by the ACLU and humiliated once again.

The biggest tell of the entire day has been the administration referring to “reports” of the wiretapping. Literally, the only “reports” on the matter are from alt-right sources and that the only mainstream reports on the topic are actually covering the president saying shit on Twitter. There’s no greater expression of…

Who else thinks that right before the midterm elections in a last gasp to save the house and senate impeachment proceedings are started by republicans in a desperate play to save face?

Hollywood

Roger Stone’s house?

In movies produced by his brother. Obviously.

Why is he still reading the student paper from his undergraduate school 35 years later? We’re the same age and I haven’t read the Daily Bruin (UCLA) since 1982.

PC-fueled sense of indignation

If Casey Affleck can’t feel safe reading college newspapers, where can he feel safe?

People just tend to be...I don’t know...disappointing assholes

I’d sure as shit hope it’s being investigated as a hate crime. Demanding someone to ‘Go back to your country’ and then shooting them is what a hate crime is.