I got a call today from a nice lady who had a dog she was looking to either give up to a rescue or find some help for. The dog has an incurable disease which is manageable with the right amount of money, which she does not have. I had to tell her that we could not help because 1) it's a large dog an...

I've stood on the rooftop of a parking garage staring at a tornado and insisting to my friends that I'll be just fine, because God is having too much fun ****in' with me to kill me now. So I'm sorry, and really hope they have a good sense of humor. Haha. I've sat on my front porch and watched a tor...

My momma always said "Eat your damn beans and shut up!"

Wise words.

Woof. Haven't been in this thread for a while. It's gotten quite Christian. Oy.

Sort of like American history: religion took a huge hit from the Enlightenment (thank God Jefferson had time to wedge the Constitution in there) then roared back with the multiple Great Awakenings.

Well at least I don't have to deal with fireworks for 2 hours. It's funny you say that. I missed the entire game 'cause I was dealing with a dog emergency (which, most thankfully, turned out OK). But the first inclination I got of the outcome was that fireworks were going off in the small Kansas to...

... their dumb ass QB ...

That's a bold take.

I'm guessing that only @CBear3 and I are the only actual Chiefs fans here?

Rooting for the Chiefs 'cause it's Philly is OK, though. I dig the Pennsylvania thing.

A whole article written in questions? Yes. Is it jarring and annoying to follow? Yes. Did I close the tab relatively early? Yes.

Did you take my EXACT f**king thought? Yes.

Did I also close it out almost immediately? Yes.

Do I despise it when people write or speak like this? Yes.

These are their WRs: JuJu Smith-Schuster Q Mecole Hardman Q John Ross Marquez Valdes-Scantling Justin Watson Q Ty Fryfogle Kadarius Toney Q Skyy Moore Justyn Ross IR Holy crap. I didn't know John Ross was in the KC organization. I remember when he came out of college and was crazy nutso fast. Like ...

Welp, that was something. Expect another blowout in the Super Bowl, no way the Chiefs can compete with MVS and a bunch of practice squad players on the outside. Going to feel like the loss to Tampa. I don't know, man. I'm actually cautiously optimistic (which is not in my nature to be). I may end u...

Oh, yeah. I love the idea of symbolism in a limited space. Say what you have to say without shouting it.

I cringe to the point of tears when I see the Kansas flag that says "KANSAS" along the bottom.

Show some f***ing imagination.

Marylanders love themselves their state flag. Most state flags are utter poop. This TED talk is about city flags, but the principles he discusses carry over to state flags. Nearly half of state flags are just the state seal on a field—typically a blue field, although Illinois, Massachusetts, and Rh...

OK. I stopped reading that piece at " ... but history has made it abundantly clear that the GOP is more than willing to compromise and “work with” Democratic administrations rather than simply kill bills. " I nearly retched at that and couldn't go on. edit: this obviously refers to the idiotic artic...

This is an internet message board. Don't bring reality into it.

Which is to say: welcome to 1787.

Not loopy until all those Russian bots hack their way into Putin as president of the Unites States of Soviet Rednecks

Yeah, I put the online poll thing in there as a joke about today's culture. Obviously there would be no poll. Just a bunch of white male billionaires meeting in secret.

I'm wondering if we should reconsider this US Constitution thing. :thumb: By and large, I think the Constitution works wonderfully. That it has survived so relatively intact from the way it was written is brilliant. There are, however, maybe half a dozen things that may have made a ton of sense in ...

I'll go on to say that if "local control" and such are so important, most US states need to be broken up. Western Kansas. Eastern Colorado. California. North Florida: "Lower Alabama." I've heard that the central part of Pennsylvania is sometimes called "Pennsyltucky." State divisions don't make any ...

I'd also say that cultural identity has changed along with it. Virginians no longer think of themselves as Virginians first, Americans second. In fact, the only state level identity I hear touted is which State Institution's Sportsball Team a person pledges allegiance to. Haha. I almost added that ...

I left out Florida in that statement, 'cause it belongs on Pluto.

From a political science perspective, has the theory of why the founding fathers agreed on the Connecticut Compromise (what led to the House being population driven and the Senate being bicarmel) really changed since 1787? That's an interesting question. My answer would be that it certainly has. I ...

So essentially the people (there are actual humans) that live in 92% of the state don't matter...

Are we rule-by-majority or not?

It's not that they don't matter, it's that they apparently matter FAR more.

There's a reason that in the UK the House of Lords doesn't have much power. It's because it's stupid and (most) UK people realize it. The US hasn't come around to that idea.

Land don't vote... people do.

Except in the US Senate.

So here in Kansas Laura Kelly (D) won re-election as Governor. She won the popular vote. But if you look at the electoral map, it's quite astonishing. She won 8 out of 105 counties. 8. If this state was run like the US Senate, she would have lost 97-8 (or 194-16 if each county had two votes). The el...