hopkinsHalo

"Bolshevism" is your dirty word for valuing the rights of the people who do actual work over the corporate entities who extract wealth from those people? Think your insults might be a little out of date.

No one is saying gun laws prevented ALL of the state's "mass murders," "gang violence" (which the stats do not ignore), "crime rates" (how does one prevent a rate?)... Just that the statistical evidence suggests they prevented 2/3 of gun deaths...minus whatever should be credited to Harris for all those community policing initiatives. Regardless, I don't think that statistic is something in which you get to believe or disbelieve without sounding pretty silly. In any case, here's a link that should appeal because it also involves Gavin Newsom getting something slightly wrong: http://www.politifact.com/california/statements/2016/nov/16/gavin-newsom/gavin-newsom-understates-californias-rapid-drop-gu/

...but with drone strikes.

Gun deaths in CA are down more than 60% since the early 90s. There's no way all of that can be attributed to having Kamala Harris as DA, some of it has to be the gun laws.

Howie was so consistent. Miss that guy.

Definitely subjective. Also true though.

Dunno...fair question.

figured you guys could use another angry Marxist trolling these parts...

Did you read the opinions? One takeaway: Gorsuch (who I hadn't read before) is a shitty writer and really not that smart. I guess that does make him the appropriate Scalia replacement.

initial thought: Hastens the decline of the US, which (let's be honest) is probably good for the world as a whole. We just have to hope the Chinese learn from these mistakes.

SCOTUS was always partisan. And the US constitution was never really all that great. I mean, kuddos to those guys for founding a secular republic about a generation before the French who invented the idea could pull it off, but many much better constitutions have been introduced all over the world since then. Study the 18c even a little and that becomes pretty obvious. Today, the US Constitution is hilariously outdated, which explains why both federal and state govts have to ignore it all the time.

This loss is on Pujols. Kendrick and Wilson are both having seasons we would hope they would have. Pujols leaves everyone in RISP and can't even be bothered to run the bases when he occasionally pulls one through the left side of the infield.

Isn't everyone better off if he goes to the DL? His OPS in June is something like .675 -- surely Navarro and Green could do much better than that. We'd free up a roster spot for more bullpen depth in the coming weeks. And Pujols could rest and prepare to come back in August the way he started in April...

Dude, are you serious? How is the question of Native American sovereignty relevant? Honestly, the imbecilic arguments people make in defense of keeping a racial slur as the name of an NFL team are more disturbing than the name itself. Everyone realizes the team-name is offensive and that it points to one of the darkest most troubling parts of our history -- interestingly, a part that most Americans still refuse to recognize as the foundational event of our history. It's a stain on the culture professional sports because the genocide of native peoples on this continent remains a stain on American life and culture. You can trot out as many comparative fallacies as you want, that's not going to change. One of the lamest consequences of today's multiculturalist rhetoric is the idea that "racism" is somehow a generic condition -- like the way people talk about "cancer" (also mistakenly). So everyone gets to claim they don't have the racism disease while continuing to ignore the role that race place in their everyday perspectives. Racist policies, attitudes, and institutions always have particular histories and particular targets. The fact that we would more or less have consensus that "Niggers" or "Yids" would be unacceptable as team names while "Redskins" remains acceptable merely indicates the particular sort of racism that most Americans still practice. Maybe Dave is trying to "thread the needle," but in the end trying to force that camel through only obfuscates an issue that is about as clear as cultural issues ever get. It's painfully obvious: anything but straightforward opposition to "Redskins" amounts to a racist position. Deal with it.

You guys need a logic class. And a history class. If it happened to be the case on that a society of atheists had conducted a couple hundred years of genocidal ethnic cleansing in order to remove a society of religious people while using the term "Angels" to degrade them....then, yes, of course our team's name would also be a disgusting offense to the basic ideas about dignity on which secular society depends.

The name "Redskins" is disgusting and of course it should be changed, by whatever means someone is capable of changing it. You guys can throw around whatever half-assed logical fallacies and red herrings you like in order to dodge that moral clarity, but you only look foolish. It's disgusting not only because it derogates millions of Americans, it's disgusting because it suggests that the rest of the country continues to enjoy a racist indifference to its own history. Of course reconciling oneself with that history and its legacies is not easy because the nation's founding act was genocide (and its founding institution slavery). But it's still gross to watch people choose racist imagery over moral consciousness. It's embarrassing to live in such a country. (The appropriate analogue, but the way, is not "Yankess" or "Fighing Irish"; the appropriate analogue would be a German soccer team named the "Leipzig Yid-Lids.") And its embarrassing to realize one reads a board full of smug white dudes who think the the fact that "Redskins" has been around for decades means it's benign -- or that the government should let well enough alone because the regulation of its commodities is more sacred than the dignity of its citizens. The only thing about all this more disgusting than "Redskins," in other words, is having read and hear all the racist babbling of the venal "majority" of sports fans still attempting to veil their own view of reality.