You missed a perfect opportunity for the headline to read “preys ON Houston”

I’m headed that direction in about 4 weeks (assuming Harvey ever stops dumping rain on me). I’ve bookmarked a few pubs that serve “real cider” using ‘WhatPub’ — any favorite labels & locals to seek out or cideries that give tours?

Around here, a ‘snakebite’ is half cider, half Guinness. An acquired taste.

Fake news. Trump invented the hurricane to both distract from his own failures as well as to shut down oil production/refining to create more jobs for coal. He loves him a dirty coal miner with big, strong hands.

Please always remember that it’s OK to vote with your feet and walk out. Nobody is holding a gun to your head to be there (at least in Christian churches, that I’m aware of). If you don’t like what you’re hearing, you owe yourself the option of not tacitly supporting it. If you need churching, I’m sure you can find…

Your use of the word “why” proves that you don’t understand the difference between causation and correlation. Find a culture that hasn’t used religion as either a crutch or command and you may continue your thought experiment.

I read this headline with the other definition of ‘humanity’ in mind. Homo sapiens may have quite a bit longer on this planet, but compassion and benevolence are on the endangered species list.

If we’ve both got our assumptions about each other out of the way...

Tacky personal attack. Clearly you’re both full of shit and full of shit.

Money in politics is much more than campaign spending. As you noted, Dear Leader (reportedly - there are no official disclosures) barely spent any of his own money on his campaign. It would be incredibly naive to assume that this means that money wasn’t spent and that nobody, up to and including Dear Leader and his…

There is no reason to trust that anything will come of Mueller’s investigation. A report will be written, discredited, distracted from, and dismissed.

At the risk of repeating myself, America is too far gone. America has stage IV metastatic cancer and all we can do at this point is try to make ourselves comfortable. There is no cure, there is no fix, there is no precision-guided laser surgery. And even if there was, it’s not covered by our insurance since it’s a…

It will not all work out. The system is too far gone that it cannot possibly. Money is politics (see: Citizens United) and you don’t have enough of it to change anything. This is the fall of Rome all over again.

America is too far gone. America has stage IV metastatic cancer and all we can do at this point is try to make ourselves comfortable. There is no cure, there is no fix, there is no precision-guided laser surgery. And even if there was, it’s not covered by our insurance since it’s a pre-existing condition.

People with grown-up phones (read: Android) can use PodcastAddict to accomplish the same thing, subscribing, downloading, and listening all in one app. They can be individually configured, but mine are all set at 1.4x.

If you haven’t been to Africa, I cannot recommend Ngorongoro highly enough. It’s a fantastic conservation area in the collapsed crater/caldera of a volcano where you can see all the big game in a relatively small area. There are a variety of lodges in all price ranges ringing the top of the mountain that are high…

FYI - that travel adapter (and others like it) often doesn’t work because plugs in other countries (primarily UK/EU) are often recessed such that the adapter doesn’t fit. Buyer beware.

FYI - that travel adapter (and others like it) often doesn’t work because plugs in other countries (primarily UK/EU)…

You mean the one, universal phone of the exact same size and shape that everyone has?

Perhaps, but the majority doesn’t matter any more. Terms like “majority” and “vocal minority” are just triggers to make you think the argument is about sides, between “us” and “them.” The American experiment ended, dissolving sides in favor of money on January 21, 2010.