Ha! As if a trip to Anchorage is something to get excited about.

Republicans weren’t scared of death panels in Obamacare, they were scared of Obamacare doing what it was designed to do. That’s why they floated these scare-stories and that’s why they’ve been working to cripple it. It was too good for too many people and if the GOP let the Dems actually, functionally help people,…

So, about those libel laws that Trump wants to “open up”...

I came to say pretty much exactly this, although, as many other commenters have said, I don’t agree that military service makes one a more effective law enforcement officer because war is very different than community policing. If you treat the community you’re working in as a war zone, then you’re probably gonna end…

I heard an NPR interview the other day talking about the problem of race and contrasting attitudes in the North versus in the South and it was, essentially, in the North, they don’t care what a person of color achieves, as long as you don’t live in a white neighborhood, whereas in the South, a person of color can live…

So yeah, it was kind of a dirty play, then. Olynyk had momentum and blasted a guy that’s 4 inches shorter and probably 30 pounds lighter. During the broadcast navel-gazing about the altercation, Steve Javie (I think) said he had watched some tape from a few minutes earlier in the game and saw Olynyk hit Oubre on…

Pull a fast one? You mean, like buying a sufficient number of tickets for his family? The fucking nerve of some people!

I don’t think it’s geographical, it’s about quality echelon. Higher quality eggs have very orange yolks while cheap eggs are very pale. The orange ones taste amazing. The pale ones taste...like pale.

Why is it that conservatives always talk about their policies being able to “unleash the full power of (insert whatever group you’re pandering to here)“? For Ivanka, it’s about “unleashing the full power of women and girls”. For most conservatives, deregulation is about “unleashing the full economic power of”…

Because she doesn’t know anything about the industry that she’s ostensibly responsible for, due to the fact that she’s a nepotism hire. Trump wanted to curry favor with the senate, so he appointed Mitch McConnell’s wife to a well-placed position in a field that she has no expertise on. That’s why. Same reason we got…

Institutional safeguards are enshrined by competing interests at the genesis of an institution or at a moment of severe inflection. I’m not buying the notion of the benevolent autocrat that willingly limits his own power because it’s the right thing to do.

“If you don’t like our country you can get out!”

Lemme guess, you also think the confederate flag is a symbol of Southern heritage, rather than an outright callback to slavery? And the Civil War happened because Andrew Jackson didn’t cut a 4/5 compromise while campaigning on the Trail of Tears?

Haha, I just got your screen name. +1 authentic mole.

Give the rich and powerful access to more money and power, at the expense of others’ well-being and they’ll take both the money and power every single time. The difference in levels of corruption and graft have to do with institutional safeguards built in, but if left unchecked, corruption and graft will always win.

I suppose that’s a good thing, considering I wasn’t trying to troll...

Like Rocco Siffreddi just before...oh my...that poor, poor girl.

You’re completely missing the point. To the degree that, frankly, I’m shocked you’re able to operate a computer, given how pants-shittingly dumb you appear. It’s not The City, it’s the city. As in, it’s the city that’s nearby other not-cities in the Bay Area.

How quickly would graft and corruption set in? It would be omnipresent, just like in real life. Imagine that the wealth and powerful were to establish an entirely new society - would they set it up to be equal and fair or would they set it up to be exploitative and to intrinsically benefit themselves?

People from the Bay Area have been calling SF “The City” for as long as I’ve been alive (33 years). I think it’s more in reference to the fact that, for a long time, SF was the only proper city in the area, among a lot of more suburban burghs. I mean, go right ahead with your righteous indignation and sour grapes…