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I noticed something while watching Joe Biden give a speech. About 3/4s of the times he talks about jobs, he explicitly refers to those in unions. Colour me entirely unsurprised that the Democrat candidate thinks more of unions than entrepreneurs...

"I'm sorry I killed my wife, officer." Doesn't work with murder, so I doubt it would work with other circumstances.

I think they are far superior to the Onion.

I had a thought that I would love to have people's analysis on, as it is derived from what I have been working on for the past fifteen years. Today's 'wokeness' is tomorrow's insomnia.

:Tin-Foil-Hat: I would not be surprised to see Ford decide that being Premier isn't enough within the next decade.

We had my niece and her grandmother visit for the day to give my brother and his wife a quiet day of work. I spent two hours watching a news program from Kenya with my sister's mother (ten years they've been together, and I'm still wrapping my head around the fact that there's no such thing as...

Just look at the Scottish Highland clans if you want to be sure of it!  ;)

One of the things that always surprises me, regardless of how well my background prepares me to predict the occurance of such things, is just how frequently otherwise logical laws end up being given the same immutable elements one sees in religious dogma. If the law is good and just (like for...

Interesting thing about that. As part of the game development studio I run, I have had to have the ocasional difficult conversation on this topic. The general point that gets made only once is that if content was removed for merely offending someone's beliefs, we wouldn't have a game. The person...

That does not seem like such a bad thing, but I can see how it might have drawbacks.

One of the things that raises my eyebrow is that when you devolve your perceptions of a person to the point where you start with their skin colour, you eliminate that person's unique history. A Kenyan immigrant descended from the Kalenjin people is not going to have the same cultural origin as...

He certainly never pulled his punches.

Sure, it happened before I was born, but I have studied cults for an extended period, so I am rather familiar with it. I am just horrified by the linking of the phrase. It sums up a fundemental flaw of American politics all too well - their parties have largely devolved into cult-like objects.

No, I meant the phrase 'Drinking the Koolaid.' :rofl:

I don't know if there is one or not, it just seems like a crass thing to me.

At the risk of being deeply improper, the idle thought struck me that the so-called CHOP might technically be a self-inflicted concentration camp, but I would never actually say such a thing.

If that is indeed true, one could make the case that AOC just violated a rather significant rule of etiquette for sitting members of government in the US. Possibly a law, but I don't know enough to be sure.

One of the things that I delight in tormenting my American friends and relatives with is an extremely simple thought experiment. The key states in US elections appear to be largely consistent, just as the fact that the country is nearly always in election mode. Just how much of a change in the...

One of the things that I have noticed is a trend with this sort of book is that, when done properly, you walk away with the impression that author never lets the fact that there was an adversarial element to the interactions get in the way of the respect for the position. Sadly, most of the ones...

One thing I have wondered about, since I am still young in the ways of US politics, is if there is anything abnormal about this. Hasn't every president essentially have the Supreme Court slap them across the face like this in some way? I mean, that is one of its core functions, isn't it?