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  1. about 1 year ago on Lisa Benson

    If all those conservatives are being silenced, why are they all able to yell about how much they are being silenced?

  2. about 2 years ago on Arlo and Janis

    From 1974 through 1978, my tuition at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee was $256.00 per full-time semester (12 or more credits). That was exactly double my high school tuition, which had been $256.00 yearly. I didn’t hit $400.00 until I started grad school.

  3. about 4 years ago on Tom Toles

    “Puppetmaster” doesn’t fit on that chart because all the slots are for underlings, not masters. “Puppetmaster” would have to go above Trump, and we all know he couldn’t have that.

  4. about 4 years ago on Tom Toles

    My favorite is “catchfart”, which I found while browsing in the OED.

  5. over 4 years ago on Mo

    I was in high school when the watergate hearings were on. During free time, we used to commandeer empty classrooms to watch the proceedings. The Powers That Be let us do it because they decided it was constructive and educational as long as we didn’t cut classes.

  6. over 4 years ago on Mo

    The way he was crowing about it, you’d think that Private Bonespurs strangled al-Baghdadi with his tiny, bare hands.

  7. over 4 years ago on Brewster Rockit

    I am fully aware that the DoI does not have the force of law; I only wish more people realized that.

  8. over 4 years ago on Prickly City

    Without France, the colonists stood a good chance of losing the Revolutionary War; without France, there might never have been a USA.

  9. over 4 years ago on Brewster Rockit

    P.S.: You can find the full text of the document at https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript.

  10. over 4 years ago on Brewster Rockit

    When most people think of the Declaration of Independence, all they think about is the parts that say things like “…all men are created equal…” and “…life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness…”.

    But all that is just a prologue to the real substance of the Declaration, which are the twenty-five specific grievances against the governance of George III. Of these twenty-five grievances, fourteen dealt with the colonies’ right to self determination and governance; eight dealt with military interference in the affairs of the colonies; one dealt with restrictions on immigration and territorial expansion (yes, the DoI supported open borders and unrestricted immigration); one dealt with trade. That leaves just one more provision, which I quote here: “For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:”. If taxes were so important, why does the word “taxes” only appear once in the entire Declaration?

    The truth is that the colonists didn’t mind paying taxes, provided that taxation was fair and allowed them to determine their own governance. What they primarily objected to in matters of taxation was the proliferation of loopholes for the king’s cronies and business associates (sound familiar?) and that they were fairly levied and not punitive.

    The notion that the American Revolution was primarily a fight against taxes is not a “great American story”, it’s a great American myth, perpetuated by people who have never read more than the first paragraph of the Declaration of Independence.

    In the interests of full disclosure, the principal author of the DoI id my many-times-great uncle. I am a direct descendant of one of his sisters.