No thanks, they can keep him.

Probably because EA isn't allowed to use slave labor, unlike the companies that built Dubai.

I was more surprised to learn that Anderson's Viewers Got Talent was a real thing. Does he pull them from the studio audience, or am I supposed to believe that someone actually watches his show on television?

also the newspaper tray

It's worth remembering that Democrats won 53% of the total votes cast for the house of representatives. The republicans held on thanks to aggressive Gerrymandering after the 2010 census. Whether they want to see it or not, the election was a rebuke.

I agree completely. Robert Reich is an intelligent and experienced economist, so he probably does understand the economy pretty well. Most of us do not understand it so well, so we latch onto the ideas of people whom we already agree with or whose framing of the issues pricks the right chemicals in our brains. Personally, trickle down sounds like rubbish to me, while giving the working class more money to spend sounds like common sense, but I couldn't hold my own against an expert who disagrees with me.

I don't know if it's a problem that most Americans don't understand economics, but if it is, this video isn't fixing it. 8 talking points that only sound good to people who already agree with them won't elevate the debate.

The question is how much longer it takes to boil whole potatoes than cut ones. I agree though that the peel is the best part.

The older I've gotten, the more importance I've placed on the character of the candidate, rather than his ideas. A candidate's ideas are the product of their advisers. I want to know if my leaders are honest or deceitful, brave or cowardly, rigid or flexible, ideological or practical. No one can fully anticipate what challenges a country will face, so you have to pick someone that you trust to tackle the unknown.

This isn't an absolute of course. I've still rejected the better man (I don't think I've voted against a major party woman) because he believed in an ideology I couldn't stomach.
>> ^hpqp:

>> ^VoodooV:
Oh Rachel, so smart, but so dumb.
did it ever occur to you that the two party system is BAD. Our founders did NOT want Parties,
One party may be less bad than the other, but the system of parties is BAD. How many people, on both sides of the aisle, voted not for Obama or for Romney, they voted for democrat or republican.
Don't you see a fundamental problem with that....with the party being more important than the person...than the country.
The two party system needs to go. ban all parties. vote for the person, not the party

No, vote for the ideas, not the person, nor the party. (but I think that's what you meant, amirite?)

Treason? The last treason conviction was in 1952. Is this the new (nonexistent) voter fraud for the GOP to worry about?

Sometimes it's helpful and appropriate for adults to tell teenagers what they ought to do.

^ I think that's the opinion I have in common with the straw man you're so intent on flogging. By all means continue if it makes you happy, but if you keep quoting me, you'll keep getting snarky comments.

>> ^Stormsinger:
flog flog flog

Here's a teachable moment. Read it again.

"respect that makes them do their work"

Also, if you're going to begin your reply with "but," you should refute my position, not just some incidental semantics.

I'm teaching you all kinds of shit tonight, I should get an award.

>> ^Stormsinger:
But a good teacher doesn't "make" the students do their work...a good teacher inspires students to investigate by their own choice.

Going along with students' jokes is a double edged sword. It's nice to have students who like you and cheer for you. Sometimes that "respect" comes at the expense of the kind of respect that makes them do their work in your class or obey your instructions in an emergency. There doesn't always have to be a tradeoff, but I've also never seen a correlation between the two.

>> ^spoco2:

And that's how you earn students' respect.

Thing is, most people who know Mitt would say that the new centrist is the real Mitt, and the republican primary hardliner was the act. That doesn't make him less of a panderer, but I haven't seen either party put forward a principled nominee in my lifetime.

I don't see why he's in a biplane. The PBS appropriation could buy us 3 new F-35s.

I hate Jimmy Kimmel. I hate Jimmy Kimmel.