Back before Reagan, we basically penalized short-term cap gains, treated long-term cap gains and dividends as regular income, and prohibited stock buybacks. This worked pretty well, I think.

(after all, a petty officer isn't expected to be able to explain why blowing up a wedding party or hospital is apparently legal but blowing up a boat isn't)

What I gather is that “don’t shoot survivors” is the sort of thing that’s covered in basic training, while the legality of launching a specific drone strike in general is at a rather higher pay grade.

My asshole uncle flew back to Kansas for Thanksgiving at my grandmother’s every year and demanded we watch the Cowboys. Every damn year.

It's the extra 5% that don't believe the Himalayas exist.

Some of them will also look like the study groups in Paris a young Pol Pot got his start in.

This is PBR slander