If you’re going to scam a ticket though you need to (a) know the name of someone who is going to fly and (b) hope they never show up.

What is he doing to our foreign brothers and sisters?

So 40 years ago he quoted a peer-reviewed journal article that made some wild claims. You think that has to be “justified”? Why?

He kept us safe if you ignore that the most deadly terrorist attack on American soil happened on his watch.

To be fair, nobody knows how the economy works. It’s very complicated with a lot of unknowns and even Nobel laureates who spend their lives studying the economy frequently get it wrong.

The earlier reports I saw seemed to indicate neither the school nor the police thought it was an actual bomb, but suspected Ahmed was going to use it to scare people into thinking it was one.

I am familiar with both the statutory definitions of slander (and libel) and the common law definitions. My point has nothing to do with whether it is slander or not, but goes simply to how this woman is contributing to a negative discourse. She is not an attorney making a legal argument, but talking about people she…

I can understand that, but I think as someone who knows them and interacts with them she would not be one of those people.

She might have phrased it in a way so that calling someone a porn star wasn’t “slander.” Maybe just, “That’s untrue” instead of “That’s slander.”

“ In general non-latinos find the “sudden” widespread existence of others to be a threat, but in the black community there is a lot of resentment to this idea that in some respects latinos in some places are considered superior to American blacks who on the east coast most certainly were more numerous for most of…

As Paul Krugman noted, you can’t have open borders and a strong safety net. You can tax the rich at 99% and cut military spending to the bone and still not have enough money to support another 50,000,000 immigrants in terms of healthcare, food, and living arrangements, and the ecological cost would be extreme.

You think that no man has ever been arrested while seeking medical care?

“I know for a fact that a huge part of it is rich white people privilege at work here”

I liked Borders a lot; but I also liked the insane sale they had when they closed down their stores. Hate to see them go, love to get a ridiculous amount of books and blu-rays for next to nothing.

It’s not.

Twain was a suffragist who advocated for women’s rights and had no problem praising women writers and through his publishing company.

What hoops did she have to jump through? She was born into privilege and ease in the English countryside and was able to write without having to worry about making a living. Mark Twain left school after the fifth grade to work; he jumped through more hoops than Austen.

I never really got the fascination with either Austen or the time period; it was a terrible time to be alive. The worst part was the fashion — why would you WANT to dress up in Regency clothing?!

Yes, White did make that accusation. That’s who I’m criticizing. White’s music is based heavily on blues-inspired rock; White now seems to think that he invented it.

He was enabled by young boomers and old Gen Xers who thought low-fi garage band noise a sign of artistic integrity. Even the fights are part of his image; you never see these kinds of “passionate artists” lose control and throw a punch at someone who would thoroughly kick their ass; it’s always some other hipster…