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Alison Holcomb would have ripped the other guy a chunnel sized asshole without breaking her polite, business casual smile.

Love Tommy, but he's not the best spokesperson for the issue. All I can hear is "Dave's not here, myan."

"America stands at a crossroads..."

GIMME SUM SUGAH

Dark Energy.

The only difference between this guy and your standard E-vangelical is that Very Inappropriate Yoga Guy prefers his fresh and real.

I'm getting out AND working on my manifesto.

PM me your address, BTW.

On a S. Early Winter Spire climb. Got the ushe in it - bunch of receipts, license, etc.

Globalization: this quarters earnings per share in exchange for next decades prosperity. Funny how the 'use it or lose it' principle never seems to get a mention among the labor liquidity masturbation set.

Why College Pays Off A nicely written retort to the 'I wanna keep a few more tax dollars so let's pretend more education is actually a bad thing' crowd. Counterintuition: so hawt right now. Next up... ...Has more freedom really helped women and black people????

Why regulate at all? Greenspan never even wanted to regulate FRAUD. Buyer beware and all that. Jesus. I fucking hate Rfucks. All the integrity of a drunken frat boy with none of the charm. Fortunately, they're all really shitty in bed, so we get the choice babes.

That really didn't come out right.

Need a 14 year old for a while?

I'd ask him: What do you like to do, what are you good at, and how important is earning a decent salary to you? If he said I love poetry and have a knack for languages and love to study, I am independently wealthy, and I don't care about making money than I'd recommend he go to the school with the best poetry program out there - irrespective of the cost, and continue with graduate study if possible. Again - irrespective of the cost. If he said I like to work with my hands, I've got a knack for fixing things, I find most of school boring and pointless and my family can't pay a dime for more education I'd recommend that he look into skilled trades where he can learn on the job and get paid while doing his training - and that college is something that he can always pursue later if his ideas about what he wants to do with his life change. Etc - basically what any non-retarded high-school guidance counselor would tell kids based on their interests, aptitudes, and level of motivation. You'd make a really inspiring counselor. "Shoot low, kid." I prefer my world just little less formulaic and deterministic, thanks. Most people going to college are 18 - they have not fucking clue what they want to do. Their 'levels of motivation' are far from set. College is a great way to mix it up and explore that. You act is if the system is forcing poor feckless kids who would really be happier in a MinuteLube bay go to Harvard instead ("how did I get under all this debt!!!???" Its yet another strawman to justify your fundamental douchery - you'd prefer to save a few bucks rather than give a fuck and help those who want to go to college get there. "But what if education ISN'T all its cracked up to be?" Typical Rfuck suck. You should sign on to an Rfuck campaign this time around - they need all the pineapple upside down messaging they can get.

Looks like an excellent place to start some budget cutting.

Americans take more drugs, illicit and prescription, per capita than any other nation - despite warehousing 25% of the world's inmates (with only 5% of the world's population). That's after spending hundreds of billions over 40 years on the Drug War. For anyone who cares about their kids, or about drugs in general as a public health issue, I'd say a different approach might be in order.

Eating raw ramen is not caused by pot. Forgetting the stove burner is, however.

Yup. if you get pulled over and smell like weed (or, more likely, the cop says you smell like weed cuz he doesn't like your ass for some reason), then you might get to take a blood test and get busted for the joint you smoked 3 days ago. Of course, that could happen right now, so no change there. The big difference is when you're smoking a joint without a vehicle and the cop gets to drive on by and deal with more important things rather than wasting tax dollars dragging another harmless hippy to the slammer.

Fixed that for 'ya Bit of a misconception that pot makes people sedentary, but we'll leave it at that. No one's promoting the use of pot. We just don't think getting high, in and of itself, should land anyone in prison. You know, like booze.

The initiative includes a DWUI clause for pot. Not that it's needed, cuz driving while stoned is already illegal.

hmmm, don't you think MJ is the cause of a significant number of accidents? Yeah, I do. Ask any hippy love child.

A joint v MD 20/20 is probably an improvement, considering that alcohol directly kills 80,000 Merkins a year as opposed to pot's...zero in recorded history. Quite a few folks will probably switch from booze to pot, which is by far the healthier alternative. It's hard to say whether people will get skinnier (from not drinking their calories) versus fatter (the Dorito factor). I'd put my money on the latter. The need for law enforcement should drop precipitously as a result, considering that booze fuels far, far more mayhem than any other drug. When a stoner asks you to step outside, its for a different reason.

I weighed it in the stuff sack without the hood - 18 oz. Both make great products that differ in weight, durability, and price. I have a Volant that lasted (although it wasn't pretty in its final years) over 25 years. I also have 4 FF bags. The Montbell's hood is better - warmer, and zipped so it won't blow away when the whimpy snaps come undone. My FF hood is about 4 years old, however, so maybe they've upgraded them since then.

When I think of Friends of the Working Man here, somehow, Jay, your name doesn't seem to come up. Was it the anti union gloating during the Wisconsin affair, or your siding with the auto executives against their own workers that gave that away? Nice try turning this into a pineapple upside down class warfare cake, but the boss's cock is lodged firmly up your ass here, and you're kinda proud of it. Being for the reversal of the current trend of higher education becoming less accessible for everyone, but most particularly the lower class isn't exactly thumbing a nose at the plumber, but nice, no, actually, only a tool would try what you just failed to do, particularly given your dripping contempt for anyone of modest means, working class or no. COllege grads get more dough. College grads are better educated, by, uh, definition. Apologies to that 5% or so that self educates, and I do know some. Going to college means you can get paid for your ideas rather than for your body. People who want to and are willing to work at it should be able to go to college. You've already got yours, brah. Don't be a shithead.