People keep talking about the cow farts... but the high speed rail network extensive enough to replace/significantly reduce air travel in 10 years is so bafflingly implausible that it’s closer to being an outright lie than to a potential policy framework.

Uh-Oh, you may have some re-education Gulag time in your future now. You have spoken out against the Soylent Green new Deal.

... games which have been played for well over 80 years now, and will continue to be played all while, as you point out, the planet dies. It’s so infuriating that those who prevent legislation that would be helpful and productive are by and large OLD and RICH. They have no skin in the game, they’ll be dead when…

The child porn laws about kids taken picture of themselves and their friends sounded pretty weird to me at first, but I’ve completely come around to it.

The Washington Post reports on Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in Maryland, where a list of 18 girls ranked by their looks (with a scale of 5.5 to 9.4) was passed around at the school earlier this month.

I think it was to highlight the fact that this was brought to a vote in the senate only so it would fail as a form of political theater. The best they could do was refuse to engage in this disingenuous act.

A deferred deal generally means the person must not commit any other crimes for a period of time before the charge is expunged. His lawyer is spinning this as an exoneration, which it is not.

Both USC and UCLA are incredibly difficult to get into. Even people with straight As and good SAT scores sometimes don’t get admitted, because the pool of applicants is self-selecting and all candidates look like that already. So you’ll be hard pressed to convince them to refund you because it’ll set a precedent where…

There are no 18 year old Jennys anymore.  It’s the Madison Era.

Dr. Dre is a piece of shit who should have served jail time for assaulting multiple women. What a lot of these rich people don’t realize is that their kids have every advantage possible. They’ve gone to the best private schools all their lives, had tutors who devoted countless hours to them, had expensive intense SAT…

Oh suck a dick. What a narcissistic way of thinking. Just because you think your little Jenny is the smartest shit in the world, doesn’t mean she will gain admission anywhere she applied. 

Well you could have just started your post with, “I’m ok with people buying their way into the UC system.” And saved us time from reading your justification bullshit.

I don’t have a problem with it, but he is completely tone deaf to be bragging about how his daughter got in on her own merits.  I mean she may very well be qualified, but when you have $70 million backing your application, it is hard to claim that you “got in on your own.”

I don’t know your school obviously but USC has a 5 or 6 billion endowment and charges over $200,000 for four years of tuition in addition to receiving a sizable amount of money from the government. Dre’s 70 million isn’t saving them from financial ruin and I think they could afford to say for integrity’s sake a weak st…

1) alcoholics (not all, obviously)

My fiance’s sister had over a dozen people show up uninvited to her reception. Evidently the pastor of their church, who was the officiant, told people in the congregation it would be cool for them to just show up even if they hadn’t gotten an invite.

Also, the ‘victims’ in the article didn’t seem to mind nearly as much as you did, but leaving a dollar at an open bar reception would be really gauche.

Wrong. My dog never barks when we’re in our backyard. I’m with him the entire time to play with him/pick up after him and we spend all of 10 minutes out there running around to get his potty time handled. He feels safe and secure because he knows I’m there and he isn’t going to be left alone. He only barks inside my…

Is this unusual? My normal, UMC suburb has an ordinance that dogs can’t be barking for more than five minutes straight at a volume that can be heard from across the property line.

Happy, healthy, and well treated dogs don’t constantly bark.