The more people get degrees the more degrees will become necessary for even basic entry level positions where all the job skills are learned on site. A degree is just a benchmark that shows you can get through a certain amount of BS and survive. That you can persevere and meet deadlines mostly.

"We need to break up the monopolies."

The degree of break up necessary to address the problem of the current Monopoly... it's not about breaking up five companies into 20, we'd need to break up five companies into 500. There's no way to ever accomplish that. You'd do yourself a bigger service to just turn off the television/radio.

"And some argue that the majority of Americans aren't idiots."

"Half of all Americans are of below average intelligence."

"Most overrated movie ever. Watched it last year with my kids, been so many years since first viewing, and they were bored."

My daughter watched it last year during a sleepover. She's still complaining about it.

Why is a developer requesting submissions to complete the project when the internet is filled with millions and millions of dicpics?

"Birds Are Vanishing from North America"

Too many feral cats.

It's currently under $4B/year according to anything I could find in 5 minutes. But Republicans are pushing for more.

Apart from the Star Wars trilogy, Superman I and II, and Star Trek II the emotional attachment to movies of my youth never really lasted. If they can make money off a reboot I say more power to them. I won't be going though.

Letter from Birmingham Jail (excerpt)

By Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., 16 April 1963

"First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season."

Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."

"I posted a thread about this topic that got no traction whatsoever"

Trying not to be insulted here.

"How does this effect you? If you actually meet this child, you may have to use "bad grammar" to communicate effectively about them? Yet, here we are, conservatives AGAIN blowing their rocker about something that REALLY does not affect them."

The uproar is less about it bothering them than it is about giving pause to centrist Democrats (I don't use the term moderates because what they consider moderate I consider malicious indifference) pause, to make them look skeptically on the progressive agenda as a whole. Or at least to put the fight for civil rights on longer time table. As far as I can tell, even on this thread, the plan is working well.

Disincentive should be incentive. I edited my comment and missed that one.

"Why do dems make republicans take such horrible positions?"

This is an excellent question, even though you asked it facetiously.

When the Republicans know the Democrats will move to the right in order not to alienate potential right of center voters there's really no disincentive for them to take a more moderate, reasonable point of view. .

"Poor rich white male servant of a white male "billionaire". Always a victim."

White guys have trouble seeing beyond their own experience. Rich white guys generally are more afflicted with this problem. Just yesterday somebody here was complaining about gender binary non-conforming people would cost the Democrats the election if they demanded to be treated with respect.

This couple might just be trying too hard. Or jumping the gun at least. But you guys are unnecessarily getting up on your hind legs to bark about it. I dressed my daughter in both girls and boys clothes when she was small because that crap just doesn't matter. Plus boys clothes were more functional and she liked the colors better. But she was raised as a girl, or at least we used female pronouns. If she comes to me one day and says she's gender fluid or trans we'll be supportive and we'll deal with it.

Am I the only one who is entertained when Nerfherder makes Star Wars references?

A cult he wants to be leader of.

"It's not against the law but very odd. It sure seems as though there is more to this story."

I take it you never worked in bars or restaurants?

"They say wealth inequity like it's a bad thing."

1928 called. They want their worldview back.

"There's a lot of them in the media and in the political realm."

A few weeks back I was watching PBS Newshour. They were covering Iran, and brought in two people with contrasting points of view. I settled in for what I believed would be an interesting debate on the subject. Turns out that the contrast was over whether we should hit Iran hard or really hard.

Did you forget that Donald declared himself "The Chosen One"?

"We've gotten a response and the director has said, essentially, that he is answering to a higher authority and refusing to turn over the whistleblower complaint."

Is he really using a religious argument to justify not fulfilling his obligations?

"So to make the queen feel better, we're going to destroy the difference between singular and plural?"

The meaning of this sentence really hinges on the existence or absence of a capital Q.

"So to make sam smith feel better, we're going to destroy the difference between singular and plural?"

99% of the people here wouldn't even notice a number discrepancy if they saw it written down and are only complaining because they have some kind of political ax to grind.

"Well Hagbard isn't an easy name to forget."

My name is practically the Italian version of John Smith, it's that ubiquitous in NYC. Works out in my favor because there are several high profile people who share my name that pushes any potential google searches for me back past the tenth page. If after meeting me you only remember I have a generic white guy name you'll probably guess right in two chances.