1) If someone quotes the Federalist Papers and they’re not at least half-joking, they’re a useless shithead whose opinion can be safely ignored.
2) There are no exceptions to number 1.

I sincerely hope Mick Mulvaney loses his job, family, health, and mind. But I also hope there is a decommodified, robust set of social…

The NHL should suspend Marchand as a retirement gift to the Sedins . And also because he’s Marchand.

This was a good piece that didn’t even address an extremely troubling and recent knock-on effect of these industry practices: massive layoffs at The Denver Post, the last remaining statewide paper in CO. There’s little chance Alden Global Capital intended to cripple local media, but they probably wouldn’t protest too…

Garden of the Gods is the only good thing about that entire region, people included. Like, OF COURSE a Bush got married in C.Springs. That’s my take.

Unrelated to the inspirational content: JK Rowling is Red Tory scum who directed her followers to spoil Labour’s vote share by voting LibDem in the ‘17 elections. Considering this comment section’s searing hatred for Bernie or Busters, Jill Stein heads, and Susan Sarandon, maybe y’all should keep your consistency for…

One Friday night in high school, I got very drunk. The next morning, I had a club soccer game. I basically hid at the end of the bench, telling coach I had the bubble guts (not totally false). Around 60ish min, our striker got popped in the head (ended up he had a concussion, but this is my story, not his). Even…

Mountain time is the sweet spot, imo

Total coincidence, I’m sure.

Several, in fact. And they were hard-won over a lot of time and reading.

Whew, “the energy industry has been good to CO” is some serious Stockholm Syndrom thinking. I mean, a thorough historical view of the Interior West would show that the entire region’s settlement was done from the outside, in pursuit of the extracted value inside. So, in a certain sense, I guess you could argue that…

He is not.

Hickenlooper is legitimately horrible. He wouldn’t win a Democratic primary in his own state at this point. We kinda rebuked the shit out of him in ‘16 in two distinct, but related ways—with a causal link in his Frackenlooper persona.

You’re clearly lacking oxygen. If Denver is too damn high, move down to sea level where your brain can get enough oxygen, and then you won’t spit unintelligible platitudes like this.

(Oh, btw: 1) Bernie, 2) Warren, 3) Ellison and none after that because I’m a registered member of SAlt and wouldn’t dare vote for any of…

It is extremely funny to see people come in here and not really have any reason to disagree with the many cited, true things in the piece. This leads me to believe that many people literally believed the Diamond Joe stuff. But whatever, right? No big deal if we try the exact same shit we did in ‘16, but this time…

Billy, stop. Please stop. Stop and seek help.

I don’t disagree, but if I was forced to try to explain why the Warren and Burger eras were possible, I’d say it was because grassroots political power exerted from the left, translated in electoral power through FDR’s use of the bully pulpit, literally forced the Court to abandon Lochner-era jurisprudence. The so…

No

The Supreme Court can’t, and won’t save us. Any view of the judiciary that sees it as an ally is based on the (now arguably anomalous) Warren and Burger eras. We need to get used to going back to the statutory strategy, as opposed to relying on a right drifting (speeding, really) judiciary.

Now, I’m just a country hillbilly from flyover country, but maybe—just maybe—we shouldn’t focus so much on blue states with established machines and patronage networks, and should instead take the Prarie Populist and SPA strategy from the turn of last century. Now, I’m a huge dumbass, but maybe looking to the last…

Oh hell yeah, Libby. Gonna get the tech dumbasses AND the free market pedants pissed at you with this one (not that that Venn diagram isn’t close to a dang circle).