Plan B Forum

I'm in an office pool that will be purchasing a couple hundred tickets. The Pool Coordinator says that winning would be much better than hitting the 50/50 at the bowling alley. I haven't done the math, but he's an engineer so I'll take is word for it. RIDDLE ME THIS: Why is there ANY income tax on t...

So let's see... You have a fiscal manager making a money-saving change that made good sense at the time, followed some months later by some disturbing reports of elevated lead levels in the water - not unlike other years - which were discounted as a seasonal variation. Eventually, the various water ...

The number of reported sexual assaults by Muslim immigrants on New Year's Eve is now over 500.

Just a group of harmless yoots, looking for a better life.

Riiiiiiiiiight.

Econoline, if you intended to rebut my point, I completely missed it. Current immigration favors people from the third world. People who have no wealth, no particular education, no particular skills. Engineers, computer specialists, & other scientists are going back to their home countries by the th...

This is not as far-fetched as it might seem. If Hillary is indicted for her blatant disregard for various national secrecy laws (or for lying to Congress about Bengazi), the timing could demand that the nomination go to the #2 candidate at the time. And of course the Trumpster is, if not the favorit...

At issue is the word, "we." The Congress of the United States lacks the power to PAY FOR COLLEGE for anyone. The expression, "Free College," when spoken by a candidate for President, implies that the Federal Government will fund it. The states are empowered by the U.S. Constitution - and presumably ...

My point is that this woman, residing in Manhattan, is totally unaware of how normal working class white people live their lives. She seems to think that we all have parents who bestow large financial gifts on us whenever the need or whim arises. One suspects that when she found her first job in New...

For another view... "changes in atmospheric CO2 content never precede changes in air temperature, when going from glacial to interglacial conditions; and when going from interglacial to glacial conditions, the change in CO2 concentration actually lags the change in air temperature (Genthon et al., 1...

The operative principle on a college campus should be, the solution to offensive speech is counter-speech that rebuts what is offensive. It's called "dialog." If my organization invites a guest speaker who will speak on campus about why slavery was the best thing that ever happened to the African Am...

An "evangelical" college, by its nature, stands for the proposition that "orthodox" Christianity - presumably based as much as possible on the Bible itself - is uniquely correct in its view of the nature of God's relationship to Man. Thus it is only in the most superficial sense that they would agre...

The common stock values of companies that are "popular" often have no connection with their theoretical financial value (i.e., 12-20 x earnings). Putting a lot of money in Apple stock is foolishness that deserves at least some punishment. But I kinda-sorta agree with rubato on the importance of Appl...

Aside from the monumental commercial benefits of football - and these cannot be denied - the main reason why American Football is a beneficial thing is that it provides an activity that is RELATIVELY harmless (to the general population) for people who would in many cases be doing anti-social things....

Laurel & Hardy, Abbott & Costello, and Martin & Lewis. I never got it. One person being mean to another, and the other one taking it. And of course the Three Stooges - funny until I turned 13.

Not funny.

I agree with our correspondent above: When I think of classic British sports cars, the first ones that come to mind are the MG-T's and Triumphs. Notwithstanding the fact that they were rust-prone and not especially reliable, they developed a devoted following of not only owners but people like me wh...

http://gu.com/p/4fdv3/sbl I hope the link works - not too good at this computer stuff... I read this article and got royally pissed off. Here is a woman who started life in a "poor" family but somehow managed to get a "full ride" at a private college, basically wasted it on a near-worthless degree, ...

http://gu.com/p/4fdv3/sbl I hope the link works - not too good at this computer stuff... I read this article and got royally pissed off. Here is a woman who started life in a "poor" family but somehow managed to get a "full ride" at a private college, basically wasted it on a near-worthless degree, ...

How THE FUCK did this turn into a Trump thread? Back on point... Every day of every year there is a weather "record" set someplace in the world. Hottest, coldest, rainiest, windiest, most humid, greatest Wind Chill, whatever. The way "prejudice" works is this: If you are convinced of a Thing, then e...

"Can I ask you a question?"

Obviously. You already have!

'At the end of the day..."

"It is what it is..."

"...a done deal..."

I like the idea of a list because it makes people aware of what they are saying, which sometimes makes no sense.

The general population of California (as distinguished from some farmers in California) is not "suffering" through the drought. Life goes on, pretty much as usual. If you call deferring car-washing and not watering your lawns suffering, I think you need to wake the fuck up. Please elaborate on the s...

I've been hearing, "Rape isn't about sex" for decades, and while I don't doubt that it is true in some cases, it is not universally apropos. Having been a 20-year-old male in the distant past, I strongly suspect that "campus rapes" are manifestly "about sex" and not some psychotic need to dominate s...