Recent content by TarSpiel

Neither Obama nor Biden would have done such a thing, and that's parrt of the reason why we liked them. There is no exit strategy. Have Rubio or Miller "run" the country? Really? "Take their oil"? There is a lot of sh!t getting piled up to throw into a lot of fans right now. It boggles my mind...

That is unfair. I think he'd have made a *great* coach. Did you hear him say how he's regretted not going into education so he could coach elementary or jr high or high school basketball? Did you just miss his passion for the game? You can disagree with someone without disrespecting their mind...

Such a great post, and perfect testament to the way sports fans generally have a tendency to disconnect their brains from their spinal chords.

Just exhibit number 1,000 that the people who start wars aren't in the same galaxy as those who fight them. We had a very shitty transition plan for Iraq. We have none for Venezuela. I mean, do these pencil necks think this is a math problem? Right now, all over the country, there are major...

You do understand that people can't be put into simple binary categories for whatever issue d'jour you decide to impose on them, right? I mean, it's elementary to realize that people might not be happy about "the warmth of collectivism," and also not happy about a foreign country filled with...

Oh you sweet summer child.

The Venezuelians who are losing oil money over this are not going to take it lying down. I'd expect any opposition group to start stirring up some crap pretty soon.

When I first heard the story today, I had one of those gut-sinking feelings. This is not going to end well, I think we've opened up a can of worms here and there's nobody making the decisions who can tell their ass from a hole in the ground, and billions of dollars in oil money at stake. I have...

Some of those statistics are very sketchy. For example, in the table offered to demonstrate "Rate of violent deaths," it has the Modocs at a rate of 450 deaths per 100,000 people per year. That's absolutely ridiculous. I do know something about the Modocs, since they're in my home state of...

This is an interesting point. I used to think of "hunter-gatherer" and "agrarian" in a pretty binary way, and only slowly started to realize that some blend of the two has been the predominant way of living around the planet for at least the last 5-10 thousand years. Cities only appeared about...

I don't have a link to the World Happiness Report's exact section - I think it was from their 2024 study - but I found a synopsis of it here, Hunter-gatherer happiness

Yup. But you'd be surprised at the number of students who never really turn anything in.

I would have at least given her a D.

His only excuse would be if he snorted a line of cocaine right before that presser.