Recent content by gtyellowjacket

Leaving out the fundamental wrongness is a way of sanitizing the behavior- especially when it is listed alongside other activities which are in no way morally equivalent.

Is there some reason that you left out that the Netenyahu administration's policy of state sponsored killing was illegal and grossly immoral? Getting fired be damned, it was deeply wrong by virtually any metric.

I'm sorry you feel that way. I just think putting kids in cages and shipping them off to some hell hole prison is morally wrong on its face. I assumed everyone would feel that way but obviously I was wrong.

I thought it was implied. As is putting people in cages or separating kids from their parents. I didn't realize I needed to spell that out for anyone specifically. Is there a reason you don't automatically associate those things with being fundamentally wrong or morally indefensible? I'm just...

Did i? I mentioned that he would likely lose in court. Is there a reason you ignored that?

I'm not sure what the right believes but everybody deports. Obama did, Trump O did, Biden did, Trump II is going to. The question is what happens to those folks between when they're picked up and when they're deported. Obama and Biden let a lot of them go. That might be the humane thing to do...

Terrible. US customs and border has always had major 4th and 5th amendment problems that I don't agree with but this is worse. Get the kid a phone call to get his documents. If the documents don't come, you've lost the time it takes to give him a phone call. If the documents do come, you avoid...

That is the weirdest thing. There are so many relatively easy ways, I would assume legally required ways, to measure mileage. Why would you guess based on those metrics? Be interesting to see if this lawsuit goes anywhere but my guess would be no. Not because Musk has been an honest...

If you're referring to Elon, you are off according to Isaacson's biography. The story is he left South Africa as a 17 year old to avoid military service and get away from his Dad. He moved to Canada and was broke and crashing with relatives. He worked at a lumber mill, shoveled grain, and...

So to be clear, you think if a word is derogatory, it is not a word in the English language? Or do you believe that only applies to nouns that are derogatory?

What word are you emphasizing? Adjective? Noun? illegal? illegals? derogatory? Which word do you believe indicates that "English doesn't have a noun "illegal." ?"

He's calling you an idiot without bothering to look up in a dictionary if illegal or deplorable is a noun. For folks too dumb to google, illegal is an adj and a noun according to the Oxford English Dictionary and Miriam Webster. Deplorable is an adj and noun according to Oxford English...

I think it's a bit of a loser politically for Trump although it would certainly be an open question. I'm sure plenty of his more hardcore supporters wouldn't mind seeing Harvard getting smacked around a bit as a representative of the political elite but his more moderate supporters would...

When it's well meaning liberals that do it, it's ensuring that minorities have adequate representation. When it's devious conservatives that do it, it's a nefarious plan to gerrymander themselves into power. It ends up being the same thing. That is how we got North Carolina's twelfth...

Congrats to Rory. Heck of a Masters.