Recent content by CharmCityTiger

This country is so cooked. No matter how many safeguards you put in place, the democratic system is inherently dependent on good faith norms. When one side creates a Supreme Court majority by refusing to confirm justices and that same court allows permanent legislative power through arbitrarily...

IMO this is the most underdiscussed threat to the future of society. We're talking about significant proportions of Gen Z and Gen A who have no ability to function in society and whose social existence is exclusively online.

Anecdotally this has been my experience. My millennial conservative friends who have kids are all rural or exurban and live slightly above paycheck to paycheck status. My liberal friends are almost all urban, own homes, contribute healthily to their 401k, and wait until their mid to late 30s to...

I’m several drinks in but a scenario where Dabo and Clemson mutually agree to part ways is starting to look like an appealing prospect.

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/baltimore/news/city-historic-low-violent-crime-homicides-shootings/ Baltimore is seeing its lowest crime rate in over 50 years, not that it matters.

Trump is dead is apparently trending on Twitter. Basically the conspiracy theory is the lack of events coupled with that thing on his hand the other day means he is in perilous health. The smoking gun is that his golf outing this weekend was apparently canceled.

I was stationed at Fort Hood in Texas while Jade Helm was going on. The mania amongst Texas Republicans was absolutely surreal.

I’m with you. I live in a city where I am a short walk or transit stop from any number of restaurants, concerts or festivals. No way in hell I would give that up to live in the burbs where a big night out is a trip to the local chain restaurant and then home early so I can wake up and do yard...

The FAFO thread will be absolutely glorious for the next three years

Ignorance is bliss

I'm always amused that these "alpha males" are always posting the gayest shit imaginable.

Boomers are really the luckiest generation to have ever lived. They grew up in the postwar Pax-Americana, were able to go to college for basically nothing, buy a house for basically nothing (which appreciated tremendously), restructure the tax code to benefit them, and now they're going to reap...

Congestion pricing in NYC has been an unqualified success so far. Commute times are down, transit ridership is up, traffic accidents are down, and incremental revenue generation is on target to fund $15 billion in system improvements. Once air quality numbers are released, it will almost...