Well, that’s just wrong. They are not a state and are not subject to all US taxes, but they do pay some of them, including income tax. In fact, they actually pay almost as much to the federal government as some states.

You know what you call a woman harassed at work who didn’t report it? EMPLOYED.

You should read The Doomsday Book. (The novel, not the actual one.) She gives LOTS of detail on people dying of the plague, and a really good modern first person account of it. It’s so disgusting, but so interesting!

Let’s go, PA Dems! It’s much easier to win an open seat than to un-seat an incumbent. It’s an R+11 district, so not exactly competitive, but not impossible either.

There’s no justice: a glorious ecosystem is collapsing and fricking Maralago won’t go the way the land of Lys

This book was one of the worst things I’ve read in awhile. Hopefully the movie can strip out all the awfulness and make it bearable.

Joe McKinney: “Joe is a passionate exitarian who believes that the ability to exit political systems leads to better governance.” Of course he does.

Any time I see a truly overweight person at the gym, I think to myself that person must have stones of steel to come out and dare to fitness while fat in our shaming culture. Most people would crumple in the face of the constant side-eye and smirks you know they’re enduring.

Also, ichtyosaurs aren’t fish...

ASPCA is such a good place to give right now. Social media has been full of pics and videos of pets that have been abandoned to the storm. Some still chained up. It’s heartbreaking.

No reason to be sorry. This was one of the best days of my life. I’d do that drive twice again to see another totality. :)

What the hell does an “online demonstration” consist of? Vigorous tweeting and slightly stepped up trolling of comment sections? If these knuckle-draggers think they were outnumbered in Boston, they ain’t seen nothing yet.

It depends on what “conservative” means to you.
If you want to get into battles about Keynes vs Friedman, then bring it. If it can be measured or tested, then let’s get to it.
If you want to force religious values on me, then no way. Categorically, and respectfully, but absolutely, certainly, positively, no.

160 mya isn’t the oldest gliding mammaliform—that’d be Volaticotherium, from the Daohugou Formation (also in China), the same beds we get basal paravians Anchiornis, Xiaotingia, and Eosinopteryx. The lower boundary of those beds are 165 mya—although the upper boundary is 156-153 mya. Whether these new guys are close…

Nothing is being shut down. He’s still perfectly free to advance his ideas, however debunked and wrongheaded they may be, in the arena of public discourse. He just won’t be paid to circulate them amongst his colleagues whom he maligned with pseudo-scientific drivel. If anyone cares to argue with him, they are still…

How can he win in a landslide after claiming to already have won the greatest number of votes, and the greatest electoral college victory in US history?

If you really want to see his head explode, remind him there were a few other people taking votes on election night. Another 5 million votes against Trump were cast for Jill Stien, Gary Johnson, and the guy who only ran in Utah

You do understand that there is no First Amendment violation in a private employer firing someone?

He’s tweeting about the NEXT election in 2020 when he repeats, this time in a landslide.