Give yourself credit where it’s due. It’s not your cells, brainwaves, or instinct. It’s something much more complex that you developed through focus and practice.

When an elite university takes a chance on a student who only scored an 1100 on the SAT, the committee is making an informed decision. Maybe the student has potential to thrive. Maybe one of the essays explained some context to the tests or school environment. 

Yup. The situation reminds me of PizzaGate. Trump administration officials speak about Clinton’s alleged crimes, so a random guy drives all the way to DC to shoot a gun at a minimum wage worker who has no involvement in either campaign. The folks bearing the brunt of these lies are the lowest rungs of employment.

The science has been sound for almost 200 years. You’re not going to convince creationists with evidence. They don’t care about evidence.

The writers should hire a consultant with expertise in sociology or psychology. The storylines should be based in reality (besides the zombies). How might people behave in a crisis? How would young children view an apocalypse?  That would be an interesting drama!

Jurassic Park let you play as a human or a velociraptor.  I sold back my system and all my games in, maybe, 1999.  :(

This is unrelated to Trump. The problems predate Clinton, and Bush and Obama did exactly nothing to help.

“Brave Wins” is slightly better than “Be Best.” I’d expect better from someone who learned English as a first language.

(I don’t really have any answers for you. How does he believe it? A lack of critical thinking skills + a huge amount of self-esteem and confidence. Why does he believe it? In his mind, he believes all things that are true, and lizard people are real. In the same way that you and I believe facts like “Maine borders the…

Well, that’s kind of what I’m getting at. The tone of the article is that there’s one hero, and one “violent” person. We might want to see it that way, but the law says that both of them were violent. There’s heavy spin happening here (and elsewhere).

an explicit fuck-scene

“White women of means...”  LOL, you’re really not familiar with Kentucky.  The GOP got their votes from very poor, very Christian women.

If Australia’s laws are anything like those in the USA, then both men will be considered “violent.” Egging someone is assault. You could gently toss a pencil at someone, and it would be considered assault. The legal definitions don’t always seem reasonable, but c’est la vie.

Yes!  I used to assume the lizard-people thing was just a bad joke, but no.  A couple of years ago, one of my coworkers admitted to believing it.  Some of these people are completely sincere.  They get most of their “news” from YouTube, and so the site keeps feeding them more videos of the same material.  My coworker…

It can’t be “a name.”  This is a giant company with so many people agreeing with each other that this was the right design.  Whole teams of people thought this was the best way.

How in hell do you decide she needs a fine, let alone a “hefty” one?!

Agreed. But it’s telling that many of these men call themselves “white nationalists” - even while on TV. It’s the term they’re choosing for themselves so that they can pretend to have distance from the KKK and historical white supremacists. The media follow suit, and in doing so, are allowing them to use a slightly…

The difference is transparency.  Paying for a building will show up on your taxes.  Paying a fake charity is tax fraud.  Sending real SAT scores is honest.  Paying a different person to pretend to be your kid is a lie.

This is why it’s wrong to call this “white nationalism.” He’s not concerned about the nation of New Zealand, its uniqueness or sovereignty. He’s properly called a “white supremacist.”  

That daddy likes to pump & dump?  I’m okay with this.