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1. about 4 hours ago on Rabbits Against Magic

   I’m saying that nobody (well, nobody that “mattered”) demanded or strongly suggested Ginsburg’s removal, like some Democrats have openly asked Sotomayer to step aside for “health reasons”…….

   As for RBG passing: “How could we tell?” (Except for all the chaos to replace her……)

2. about 4 hours ago on Rabbits Against Magic

   Don’t ask me, they never consulted with me. And if they had I would have told them it reeked of massive hypocrisy. But, to be honest, anyone Obama (or his puppet Biden) would have selected would have been unacceptable for me anyway, because there would have been no chance of him selecting anything but an orthodox, hard left liberal, unlike the wishy-washy right-wingers that the Republicans have nominated of late (John Roberts, et al).

3. about 4 hours ago on Arlo and Janis

   While I concede we haven’t actually been given enough information from this lass, “normal” at that age is seeking out both social relationships and personal relationships. (Don’t believe me? Go though high school or college without dating or hanging out with other people, and see how fast you’re labeled a “dork,” “loser,” etc.) What she describes matches people who avoid such relationships, i.e. an introvert.

4. about 5 hours ago on Prickly City

   “……. if you can keep it.” —popularly attributed to Benjamin Franklin

5. about 5 hours ago on Prickly City

   Just remember: If our country were a “true democracy,” we’d had never passed the Civil Rights Act. A majority never wanted it.

6. about 5 hours ago on Prickly City

   Well, oddly, the closest we ever got to that was a leftist FDR…….

7. 1 day ago on Arlo and Janis

   “How can she not have a boyfriend?”

   Pathological introvertism. All the other symptoms match…….

8. 1 day ago on Rabbits Against Magic

   Now wait a darned minute……

   All the time I hear people grousing that Supreme Court justices and other judicial appointments shouldn’t be lifetime appointments, that “those old geezers need to go” (but not applied, curiously, to that increasingly narcoleptic Ruth Bader Ginsburg…)………………..

   So now Trump proposes to attempt just that, to bring “fresh blood” into the judicial system…… and somehow that’s the mark of a “dictator”?

   Go on, tell us what you are REALLY thinking: “Conservatives shouldn’t get to appoint any justices; I want all progressives!”

9. 1 day ago on Rabbits Against Magic

   I, for one, remember Israel’s Begin and Egypt’s Sadat shaking hands in front of Jimmy Carter, so………..

10. 1 day ago on Prickly City

    If your argument is supposed to be about “fairness,” however, then it’s not really any more “fair” that the “city slickers” with no relevant exposure to life in “flyover country” gets to call the shots about rural lives, either.

    The common trope is that “blue states pay for red states that take in more money than they pay.” The problem with that trope is that the validity of that imbalance depends on three things: Social Security and Medicare payments to people who moved to less expensive states as they retired; military expenditures which get spread around for both “pork barrel” reasons and logistics (no one wants a weapons plant in NYC or a testing ground in Los Angeles or missile silos in cities!); and expenditures on transportation that benefit all (air traffic control, Interstate highways, river locks, airport subsidies, etc.). Extrapolate for those distortions, and the “gap” disappears.

    I’ve long argued that most of our national disconnect and arrogance in a “national conversation” could be effectively remedied if all of “Urban America” were forced to spend a year in remote “flyover country” and vice versa.