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I have been trying to view this election season as a spectator sport rather than jumping in and publicly supporting a candidate. I have to say it makes politics a lot more fun, at least for me... While watching this have formulated a slightly different version of the political compass chart...

http://abcnews.go.com/US/freddie-grays-death-ruled-homicide-states-attorney/story?id=30728026 And... https://imgur.com/a/k44fx Overall it's a pretty impressive set of charges. The things that impress me the most are: 1) Everyone involved has been charged, instead of one officer...

Which is the stupider fixture of modern political discourse?

So apparently there was a riot or something in Baltimore, or at least that's what my Facebook feed says. However I'm going to ignore it's specifics for a bit and look at the reactions to it, or more precisely the negative ones. The case is pretty open and shut, rioting/looting destroys...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/24/columbia-university-sued-by-male-student-in-carry-that-weight-rape-case/ I find it interesting because similar to the UVA story I remember my friends making a big deal about 'stand with mattress girl' type of things back when...

Do you tame it? What are you're thoughts on it? How do you tame it? What body hair management practices do you hope for in a spouse? Personally I trim my armpits, shave my chest, and (closely) trim my genitals. My ideal mate is totally hairless from the neck down, but shaved legs...

Link After reading the FiveThirtyEight article I realized several things, I'm not entirely sure what I think about them, how I feel, or what they mean. But I think they deserve a mention and some consideration. Out of the sample of 1,913 police killings over 20 months (08/13-03/15) 511 were...

To say this is disgusting would be a massive understatement. In terms of shear damage to the fabric of America this is on a level far above the police violence and shootings that have rocked headlines recently. Source -...

The most disturbing part of this to me is that this happened a year and a half ago and nobody has even noticed until now. Link

So as we all know AdBlockPro is a wonderful thing that helps cleanse our internet and make it readable. Which has led me to thinking... I could block more things! Imagine a world where I never see the Upworthy and Jezebel links my Mom posts on Facebook. Or the GMO/Vaccine conspiracy...

Very short background history, I've been thinking about... There have been 4 "epochs" of modern history with very distinct power structures. Imperialist Era - pre-WW1 Multipolar. Gradually becoming bipolar as war approached. Reallignment - WW1 Interwar era - 1919-1939...

Not indicted by Grand Jury. There are several things that blow my mind about this case in a way that neither Ferguson nor Trayvon cases did: 1) It's on video, there are no conflicting reports and no doubt as to the facts. 2) He was literally killed over minor tax fraud, that's as...

Boogers. Do you get them? How much is normal? Do they impact your quality of life? I get them almost constantly and end up trying to retrieve whenever I get a chance to slip into the bathroom alone. Then occasionally I'll get to rough and it will bleed which is terrible:( What's worse is when...

But do you? Rationally I want the best for everything, nobody to get hurt, etc. But I also silently cheer for disaster a depressingly often. I was just reading an article about how ISIS is faltering and their blitzkrieg is basically over... And I must cofess that one of the first things on...

Recently I've been trying to apply 3 checks to things that I think, read, and hear. My results so far have somewhat mind opening but much more misanthropic. The idea is this, a great amount of what people accept as truth is built on one of these mistakes. Avoid them and you can "take the red...

A lot of people don't really seem to take Nicki Minaj seriously, which is sort of understandable from one point of view. Her outfits can be silly, everyone saw Anaconda, and there was that song where she said "You a stupid hoe" like 40 times in a row. But get past the canonical "bad songs"...

I want this thread to be at least mildly respectful and hopefully illuminate some of the following questions before dying a natural (unmoderated) death. That may not be possible, but I think it is a worthy goal. First I would like to share a short story about myself. Both of my parents are...

Link Apparently this is rather controversial, but I can'ts see how obesity isn't child abuse. If you get that obese as a child it is far harder to recover as an adult and in many ways damage has already been done. At a bare minimum the child can be disfigured for life, a life far shorter...

I see this term get thrown around constantly mostly by Liberals when discussing minimum wage increases. In principle paying a living wage shouldn't be controversial, after all paying less than a living wage guarantees the need for government assistance by definition. However I've never seen...

Okay, before you call me crazy please hear me out. Education in America has a ton of problems, but the biggest one you hear if you talk to teachers is lack of interest from students and involvement from parents, etc. But education is completely vital for a person to be successful in...