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As long as you guys want to put me downcenter stage, that's okay by me. Given that I'm still sitting on the trade I took a month ago, I have nothing to be angry and hostile about. It does give me an awful lot of free time, though.

A couple of people have wondered why I haven't posted to this thread. I didn't post to this thread initially because (a) the report to which the OP linked didn't say what he said it said (or at least he assigned meanings to it that came with his baggage) and (b) there is a fundamental...

Reminded me of something I read this morning: A Republican strategist once said that if electoral politics is a game of getting to 50 percent plus one—that is, you need half of the voters plus one more to win an election—what Democrats do is assume they start with 0 percent support and try to...

Speaking of mental midgets and calling the ACA "Odumbocare" . . .. If your current state is where your degrees from "well-respected universities" (there's supposed to be a hyphen there) got you, either they aren't as respected as you like to think they are or you're just making it all up. And...

Community College degrees don't count.

And why wouldn't I respond to posts directed to me? As for the general fascination with me and the three threads that have been devoted to me, all of that is beyond my control. Middle-aged men with adolescent minds. What else can you expect?

Neocon dolts and dopey pundits persist: Obama reveals ISIS strategy, whining continues anyway Not too long ago, President Obama was excoriated in the press for what was arguably the single greatest gaffe in human history: “We don’t have a strategy yet.” It was one of those “classic gaffes” in...

Five years into our so-called recovery, hunger in America remains stuck at a depressingly high level. The number of families who struggle to put food on the table has barely inched downward, even though employment is up. And while a majority of those struggling families are already receiving...

You can’t say Republicans haven’t learned from their 2012 disasters: They’ve drilled their candidates not to talk about rape, legitimate or otherwise. Now a few are realizing it hurts to be seen as the party that’s against contraception, too. But they don’t support the Affordable Care Act...

Evangelical megachurch begins closing branches after pastor calls women “penis homes” The Washington-based evangelical megachurch Mars Hill is shutting (some of) its doors. Following controversy over founder Mark Driscoll’s well-documented homophobic and sexist remarks, church officials...

9 Because the U.S. is responsible for creating the conditions that cause illegal immigration. From overthrowing left-wing governments during the Cold War, to financing military forces that massacred civilians, to pushing economic policies that put Mexican farmers out of work by the millions...

16 Reasons Why Opening Our Borders Makes More Sense Than Militarizing Them What would happen if the United States suddenly stopped building walls and instead flung open its borders, not unlike the European Union has done among the member countries of the common market? Conservatives malign the...

Rick Perry might go away for a long, long time: What even the liberal media isn’t reporting about his indictment At least in 2012, Rick Perry realized he’d forgotten the name of the federal department he wanted to abolish. But when it comes to the charges he’s just been indicted for, he’s...

On August 20, Chris Hayes presented two starkly illuminating segments on Ferguson, Missouri [transcript]. “There are at least two Fergusons,” he told viewers in the first segment [video]—one was the Ferguson they had seen on TV for nearly two weeks, but there was also “another Ferguson” with...

Who cares? I'm more interested in how you think than what you claim, and so far I haven't seen much of the former.

There were no fantasies in what I posted, and of course it was relevant. As for others having more knowledge than I, they can read and attend movies, but that's about all one can say about their knowledge. This is the internet, Sparky. One can create and inhabit whatever persona he can imagine.

You're entertaining, that's all. That I occupy such a larger part of your life than you do mine is a problem within yourself that you're going to have to address on your own.

I doubt she was interested. But you know what I meant by peeps. As for getting under my skin, hardly. You're just an anonymous internet handle. What you think is of no importance to me. In fact, I've skipped most of what's been posted this morning because I've been busy, and there's little...

In general, perhaps. But so far no one has demonstrated any understanding of the minimum wage issue beyond what they read in a book and heard in a class. So far it's been just a succession of rightwing rants.

Which has what to do with what I posted? There were no "ifs". Think.