“I want to use this ladder to get up but I’ll gladly kick it over for other people when they want to use it.”

I wish the guy that hit my wife and I understood that about cruiser bikes. He was taking a relatively easy turn but somehow managed to be spat out of the turn and into our direction of traffic.

If for no other reason than as an exercise in art appreciation, I guess. Even if it’s not your cup of gaming tea, there’s some interesting work done in the game and considering the size (or lack of size) of the creation team, it’s a pretty wonderful work.

They seem to forget that you don’t have to be a senator or in the White House to be a politician. They also seem to forget that just because someone gives an honest opinion doesn’t mean it’s well-informed and/or worth paying attention to.

Just hitting ISIS with ordnance only deals with a symptom and it doesn’t do much more than the equivalents of killing ants at the picnic table when you can kill the nest.

I’d be looking for a way out and someplace to land after. Konami’s basically crapped on every major franchise they have and then decided to give us the pachinko treatment. I’m guessing that’s their new strategy, which might be good business sense, I guess.

What’s killing me right now is that someone on another sports board I’m on is actually leaning in favor of the CSC guards here. His argument is that the fans were trespassing, therefore violating the law, and then subject to whatever they got from the CSC guards.

But he’s also the sort that thinks breaking any law…

As far as which group my moral compass points to, it’s Minutemen, then Railroad, then Institute, then Brotherhood.

As far as who I like working for more? That’s tough, I like the vertibird transport perk for when I’m doing scavenger runs and I’m carrying tons of junk. But that’s it. I’m finding the gun run to be not…

“Something something clean energy and a planet we can breathe on is for sissies, so let’s go hunting oh-wait-we-can’t because they’ve either died off from a lack of habitat or we fucking killed them all, also because I’m fucking getting paid that’s why.”

Right. This is one of the things I worry about with radical Islamic terrorism. Obviously you worry about the cells actually linked to the various groups launching big, signature attacks. But some forget that like the other crazed shooters with some sorta hate-related fuel, a homegrown Islamic terrorist is a total…

Certain states allow for it with the right fee payment.

If he did fall into the ISIS propaganda trap by way of harassment from coworkers, that would be terrible. Predictable in that he (might) have been secular and pushed to violence by needless hate. Terrible in that this is the shit I’m worried about. In the efforts to “fight them there so they aren’t fought here”,…

Some of this has to be linked to political radicalization, media sensationalism, and of course, members of the right reaching into fear-based rhetoric to support a voting base.

“Those profit-oriented companies would have no reason at all, ever, to want to manipulate people into buying firearms.”

Sure, like Volkswagen and their emissions, like numerous hydraulic fracturing companies, like many companies in the days prior to safety regulation, like the various hedge fund managers, like the…

Reset? Could we even start it?

The NRA and the gun companies are winning, actually. They got people convinced Obama was gonna ban firearms - which he never really considered, ever.

Now they’re trying to convince you that you need their weapons to protect you from the weapons they produced. Basically, they’re playing the arms dealer middleman,…

No, because at some point, someone will say, “if we shoot their small children, that’ll teach them to do whatever arbitrary, vaguely described, probably poorly worded, fundamentally stupid thing we want them to do!”

I pull that card on deathclaws and coursers. I keep a small batch of the pulse and plasma (?) mines for that sort of work.

“War on the family.”

That’s better fitting the wealth gap and wage stagnation. That better fits problems within the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries. That fits economic problems and food deserts within cities. But Planned Parenthood? No, that’s a group actually trying to make sure families get stable or that…

Start them in high school. Let them know money costs time and requires commitment. To really drive it home, have them run budgets from what they make, while showing them how much money really is worth - let them see how rough it is when people don’t have it and how close they may be to that same position.