Site-Wide Activity

Hey, folks, we Yanks are exploring EVERY STINKING NOOK AND CRANNY OF WHAT the Supreme Court’s long-ago Justice Holmes called the marketplace of ideas.

No previous president has ever had the imagination to require us to do that, so Trump is furthering our educations.

I sometimes socialize with a few ex-Marines from a customer site. We recently had a conversation about “how the new regime (their term) is suffering from a self-inflicted bad case of swamp fever” and that Trump and his appointees are fast creating threats to the national security of the USA. Externally by dealing with corrupt foreign governments…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

If you thought Scott Pruitt was bad, wait until Andrew Wheeler really gets going.

This is a tragic comedy now, where people who say government is corrupt and damaging get elected, and then make it more corrupt and damaging, often by premeditated intent.

PopeBeanie wrote:

Unseen wrote:

One major reason for discriminating against women, especially in businesses too small to be subject to fairness in hiring laws is a result of #MeToo.

This sounds too much (to me) like framing the issue as if it’s the victim’s fault. Like, “How were you dressed when you got raped?”. Or it refocuses the issue a…

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It is difficult to understand the mind-set of people like Roy Moore who is again running for Senate. He must, to some degree, hold the electorate of Alabama in contempt. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo is awaiting the Rapture while Mike Pence is certain he cannot serve two masters. But the biggest threat from within to America must be from the new…[Read more]

I still say people like that should be out fighting the wildfires, floods, etc., rather than sit back in their air conditioned offices watching it all…….when they have the bloody time!

Unseen wrote:

One major reason for discriminating against women, especially in businesses too small to be subject to fairness in hiring laws is a result of #MeToo.

This sounds too much (to me) like framing the issue as if it’s the victim’s fault. Like, “How were you dressed when you got raped?”. Or it refocuses the issue as a reverse…[Read more]

The Whitehouse is an environmental train wreck. Just when we had a chance to turn it around. Coal. Really? Only when the climate fiasco starts hitting the wallets of the fat cats…will we see real change. When multi-million dollar homes become totally uninsurable and are regularly washed away into the sea. There will be untold suffering around…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:

at what juncture does the government have sufficient standing and interest to intrude in hiring and and promotion matters.

Recently I’m thinking that there’s too much negative impact on small companies, and too much litigation necessary to prove and “remedy” alleged gender bias… but “affirmative action” as a solution can be…[Read more]

Investment in the future means “profits this quarter to raise all boats”. Well yeah, all boats will actually rise, over decades. What pisses me off is how interest groups–religious like creationists and pro-lifers, corporate lobbyists, most libertarians and many conservatives are wearing blinders that block out real science for their own…[Read more]

The GOP only cares about money. For example, wasn’t it Pompeo who thought that melting North Pole ice created a shorter route for many ships to reach their ports than having to go through the Panama Canal?

Think of the as the Glass Half Full Party.

Ivy wrote:

@unseen I think your observation about the #metoo movement is totally bullshit. Speculation and personal opinion. Normal healthy male businessmen aren’t changing anything. Because they weren’t doing anything wrong to begin with and they still aren’t…. And it’s not making it any harder one way or another for a woman to get a job or ge…

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I like to think of myself as a climate change prepper lol

I seriously wonder if they believe their own bullshit or if they are willingly and purposefully lying to everyone.

I especially wonder about the issue of climate change since it’s going to affect them too. No money or power or status can save you from that. I’ll be laughing when some of their homes are underwater lol

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Chaney, Pence, Trump, Schlaffy, FOX news, Limbaugh, Coulter etc. No body does bullshit artistry better than them. They could convince thousands overnight that the sky is green or that there is a anti-Christian police force in New York. I am in awe at their ability to know something is pure bullshit, repeat the same lie endlessly…in the face of p…[Read more]