The center cannot hold.

Well maybe you’ve heard of the War on Christmas?? That should give you some idea of the degrees Christians use to describe how persecuted they are.

When I drive around my rural PA county, I see more Confederate flags than I ever have in my 30+ years living here. There are big flags flying from poles in front of houses, flags painted on barns, flag license plates on cars, flags flying from poles posted in truck beds. This isn’t some part of the south, and there…

“They have to run petroleum pipelines to them to run the spin-up motors.”

Woah, dude, I’m with you on all of this, but as a Penn State alumnus, I have to correct you a bit there. The support for Paterno from Penn Staters after the Sandusky indictments were announced were based on two things, neither of which were football coaching prowess: 1) that the press, particularly ESPN, immediately…

I smoke my last cigarette ever (fingers crossed) on New Year’s Eve, 12/31/16 after about 10 years of (mostly) on and off smoking. So, I’m on day 36 and it feels like the greatest thing in the world! If you are thinking of going for it, do it - every day you make it through without a cig makes you feel a bit more…

Same thing goes for weed and alcohol - I agree with this and would strongly argue that the data supports weed as by far the least physiologically harmful of these three recreational drugs. And yet it is the illegal one. Almost as though such decisions are made purely with someone’s profit motive in mind

Nah, Goldwater was a whole different sort than Reagan and beyond have been. He railed against the Christian Right as it rose in the 70s and 80s, for instance, while Reagan and the Bushes made Religio-political crossover a central tenet of their political personas.

“Deodorant is basically just rubbing chemicals on your pits to cover up the smell.”

Actually, ironically enough, Hillary’s evil, illegal home email system was not hacked, unlike so much of the other Democratic digital infrastructure.

This is really similar to my own experience. Been a few years since sex, a few more before that since love. And there are times when I’m lonely, and I want someone to share my life with.

Josh Tobias was never a top-anything prospect. I follow the Phils’ farm system very closely (better than the MLB club!), and Tobias is a plus hitter, very poor defender at 2B - think Dan Uggla for the very tip-top of his upside. But he’s also 23 and played A+ ball last year. I’ve never seen him ranked on a prospect…

The prison guards that I know have pretty much the best-paying jobs in my economically-depressed Rust Belt county. They complain about how hard it is quite often, and I have little doubt that it is. But I have zero sympathy for anyone making in the top 10-20% income percentile in a poor town who complains about…

How is this not a criminal act? I can understand why hits on other players in sports are protected from being prosecuted, but this is a clear, malicious, very violent assault upon a non-player. Any sport would be better off banning such a player for life as well.

The difference is that the Clinton Foundation (which includes the CGI you mention) is a public, nonprofit corporation whose stated mission is to improve lives of people in America and around the world.

I appreciate your point, but this has been argued for at least the twenty years I’ve been following this debate. At some point, we do actually have to choose to stop that next big fossil fuel project and put the money into solar panel subsidies.

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For me, it is pretty simple. The Electoral College is undemocratic. It grants disproportionate voting power to people in less populous states. I said these things long before Trump, and I’ll say them long after Trump. Can you imagine if some other country held elections and gave the presidency to the 2nd leading…

Spot on... single-issue liberals are infuriating. Ex., Sarah Palin decries gov’t spending on just about anything and everything - except that they should be spending soooo much more on Downs’ syndrome issues because her baby has it and by god now it’s the thing gov’t should be funding the most!

Ha, Chicago.... it barely even snows there! Upstate NY is laughing at your concept of “the streets all got plowed” while we ski to work.