Recent content by GDan

I take it you haven't read the Confederate states' declarations of secession or Alexander Stephens Cornerstone speech? The idea of the war not being about slavery is laughable. Georgia "The people of Georgia having dissolved their political connection with the Government of the United States of...

I used to spend my weekends working in homeless shelters. The people who came in after being thrown out on street due to missed rent payments and the like didn't usually spend more than a few weeks before finding a new place to live. The chronic homeless were a different story. I'm not sure of...

If you were one of the Donald's Muslim friends, would you really want people to know? I think he did them a favor by not naming them.

I believe the number is closer to 40 million billion zillion murdered.

In what comes as a surprise to precisely no one, Russians make up an excuse to spend the day getting drunk.

Isn't the Russian military mainly a bunch of conscripts that only serve for a year?

They did make fun of 9/11.

If they get close enough, they could bring down the F-35 by dropping a piano on it, too! The Americans are such fools!

If this is all it takes to deem social science as junk, you should probably give that label to natural sciences as well. Having extraordinary claims supported by weak data is an ongoing problem across all fields of research as people attempt to cultivate the prestige and results necessary for...

Does inheriting half a billion dollars count as self-made these days?

I voted yes. I mean, it's been completely downhill since the aliens blew up the White House back in 1996. Obviously.

Nothing says charity like donating huge sums of money to schools that don't need it so you can get your name on a building.

This settles it. Putin is mental.

According to what metric? Mexico has higher GDP per capita on both a nominal and PPP basis, and it also has higher median individual and household income.

It would be pretty funny if the body is from some black guy.