I generally lean towards amnesty with a path to citizenship direction. If you have a job, and minimal criminal convictions*, I think there needs to be a process where you can apply for citizenship. If you don't want to become a citizen? Then back to Mexico, you go(more likely Honduras, Gautamala or ...

I'm gonna see if I can dig up some old photographs of me as a child(I was cuter then), and see if I can't find one with some "Happy holidays" regalia in it. I'm pretty sure we've been saying that for a long time, because not only is the Christmas, there's also Channukah, and I'm pretty sur...

Seems petty in the context of nukes, but [urlhttp://fox2now.com/2017/10/16/trump-were-saying-merry-christmas-again/]the fake war on Christmas [/url] is here early. And once again, boilerplate GOP talking points come out of the President's mouth like Biff Tannen trying to be witty. it's not even Hal...

Mike, imagine for a second that you were going to get on a charter bus, with your kids, and go to some exotic destination. As you pull up to the bus lot, you see the chief mechanic passed out with a bottle of bourbon in his hands, tools and half assembled engine laying around him. You see the people...

Once while doing some remodeling for an aunt of mine, we demolished part of the roof to gain access to the attic. Well, I tossed my ole tomcat, Atilla, up there. He stayed up there in the attic for a day or so. When he was done, he came to the edge and meowed, so that I could move a chair and he cou...

See, that's what I don't understand. The world is NOT a balanced group of people who would all just "get along" if it wasn't for loud mouthed Trump. The world has been an unbalanced mess, teetering on the edge of global conflict between nuclear armed powers for something like 50 or 70 year...

Here we have an example of me reading something on the internet that actually causes negative feelings. That is terrible, if you would be berated in even the slightest way for speaking the truth of your life in this way. I get why women want to feel free to speak up and claim their own space to be ...

Pence is equally horrible in most respects, but more predictable and less likely to accidentally start WWIII. I think the threat of Trump "accidentally" starting a war is a vastly overblown canard. It exists because, for whatever reason, people think the chief executive apparently has dic...

I don't know if most people who were abused become sexual predators themselves, but I think they become abusers. Unable to put their experience into context, they will either become self-abusive, verbally abusive, or maybe emotionally abusive to others. Or maybe they don't become abusive, but they d...

State and Society are not synonyms. They are related, but they are not the same thing, repeated. A State is a compulsory construct, with a limited bounds in geographic era, as well as possibly ethnic make up, monopolizing the use of force within it's bounds. A society or "nation" is not bo...

Somewhere there is a young boy, who has been sexually abused. He's struggling with all sorts of things. His abuser is almost without a doubt an older male, who without a doubt has some form of power, whether it's as a coach, a pastor, or, even, just an older boy in a group of younger boys. The young...

Yeah, I think we've already had that disagreement in the past. No need to redredge it, we disagree pretty heftily on it.

On a related note though, have you seen the womens march for peace in Israel? It's... interesting, to say the least.

I am hopeful. Elon Musk's proposal to over-all their infrastructure with a more modern one strikes me as an interesting idea. Not only do we get to upgrade their infrastructure(which, was shitty before), we get to create an economic boom for them. It'd be nice to have the government's help on this, ...

I mean, I actually understand the idea that Bernie as the speaker of honor at a feminist conference is a bit... odd. I mean, I understand the idea that "well, if feminism is about equality, why can't the speaker be a man". But on the other hand...Sometimes, when you are a man who supports ...

I also acknowledge the vulnerability of such systems to outside interference, something which is also possible in more centralized forms of government(Russia hacked our election, remember?). Generally though, it's harder to invade decentralized nation's than it is to invade a state, as while they m...

I'm still unclear on the actual enforcement angle. So you risk losing your clan, so other clan-members now need to expend their time watching over potential problem citizens. Are these watchers trained in actual investigative procedures? Evidentiary rules? If they are...how is this different than a...

What kills me is that it would have been SO easy to simply invite Bernie to speak at any other time during this event, and reserve that place of honor for someone like Maxine or whoever else - hey, maybe someone whose national political leadership they'd like to promote for a future run? This would...

This sounds like a smaller-scale democracy that we just decided not to call a democracy, and that maybe would do less stuff than most other democracies do. It's people will be subsumed by some other more powerful state once they produce anything of value. You realize that democracy is a vague term,...

Well, it's a point I made earlier, but it bears repeating, constantly: the most fundamental requirement for any stable society is the rule of law. Anarchy is commonly misunderstood as "no rules! Everything goes!", when the most literal translation is more like "Without Rulers". A...