Recent content by mdb-tpet

Since this thread has been reopened, it's clear to me we truly need to divorce ourselves from the Oil Industry. There have been 2 wars in the last few months over oil, oil is funding Russia's attacks on Ukraine, and now the world's economy is in being shocked from oil being stuck in the Strait...

As a poor student of history, and a with a mediocre understanding of macro and micro economics, I root for the Cuban people to create a better hybrid of capitalism, socialism, liberalism, and politics than we have. Possibly a political/economic blend more like Norway or Finland, keeping much of...

When is Congress going to start doing their job again instead of sitting idly by while the President keeps starting wars? If they cannot debate and vote on starting/stopping a war instead of simply letting the President do what he wants to, the Congress as a whole needs to resign and give their...

Please keep the poor little starving betting agencies from going broke by wagering your hard earned cash on games thinking you have a chance to win, while some people are likely paying athletes for point shaving.

One of the most important features of a public education is that the kids graduating high school have some common ground of understanding or basis of reality with the rest of the country. With homeschooling, too many kids just don't get that foundation, starting from socialization, to...

As a parent of a middle schooler, you have my utmost respect!

He simply does not have the ability to unite our country, nor does he even modestly try. I just can't sit through dozens of half and full lies/campaign rally speeches he gives. There's a wide difference between motivational speech/highlighting the good in things/accepting you can't make everyone...

Or they can just cut the number of years a player gets to play football from 5 9 down to 8 or so.

Every modestly sized city used to have a decent rail system before the trifecta of oil, auto, and tire companies politically beat up and then physically bought up the rail systems in many cities. But we went whole hog on the suburban commuter concept after 1945. The idea that we aren’t dense...

Nice post. I’m just using the Shinkansen as an example of long distance ground transportation done thoughtfully with safety as a key feature, not a secondary feature to individualism like our transportation system. I’ve lost several friends to car crashes and I’ve been hit several times on the...

Another great person taken by our terrible transportation system. I lost a friend (32 years old) last year due to a driver crossing the line and hitting them head on. We can do better. As a contrast, the Shinkansen train system in Japan has had 0 passenger fatalities in 61 years with over 2...

And I have a friend that can't understand the application of the Voter ID laws in conservative states are often tools intended to disenfranchise voters who tend to be poorer and/or non-white, and tend to not vote for the GOP, not that the actual concept of using an ID to vote is inherently...

Why can't we just go back to 5 years to play 4? No extensions for any reason. And you must enroll by or earlier than when you're 20. No exceptions. No professional contracts of any kind. NIL that is tied to the school you're in only. And you must actually attend classes for a degree or you...

The only thing I believe from this administration is that they will never tell 100% of the truth. I just don't and can't trust anything they say to be anything more than a half-ish truth or a tail wagging the dog. So many obvious lies, so many clear distractions, so much visible corruption...

I feel like we're living through the end of the Leaded Gasoline experiment where our leaders are picked from the very finest folks who cannot move past a belief and will double and triple down on what they believe regardless of what the facts, tests, great science, and reality shows. This starts...