On a brief historical note, I'm fairly sure Admiral Dönitz got his "hospital pass" in April 1945 rather than 1944. It's a fairly apt comparison in some senses, though (noting the … (View Post)

Waking up thinking it's Saturday and discovering it's Monday would be a more disappointing start to the day. (View Post)

The point isn't that drug dealers can't get hold of a card reader... it's that it creates a paper trail. Nobody cares about a beggar's paper trail, whereas if you're trying t… (View Post)

I can still see there being a race for the Democratic nomination... but Kennedy is an irrelevance to that and the prospects of a contest are diminishing. Kennedy is simply a fruitcake with borrowed n… (View Post)

I think you're confusing being "allowed" to be somewhere from not being physically stopped from going somewhere. It's common practice in a riot to fall back to some extent rather … (View Post)