observist It is interesting that the gun culture has transformed from home self-defense into this kind of paramilitary stuff.
markzero I think it's for two reasons. One, environmental concerns. Paper bags, it's alleged, take more energy to produce and transport than plastic, and take up more landfill space. The other reasons, I suspect, is political. Lobbyists from plastics manufacturers were one of the main driver...
We've had a ban like this in Austin for a couple of months now. A lot of people were unhappy at first and it was this big story (with people saying it was going to cause this crisis, and business would leave the city, etc. etc.) but now no one cares. Most of the grocery stores now give you thick...
shoeguyster Yeah I tend agree. It's East Austin in particular. Formerly black and hispanic working class part of town. Then hipsters started moving in. Then followed bars, food trucks, record stores and veggie restaurants. Now there's a big condo development boom which is bringing in moneye...
farfallealfredo The Girl Scouts have allowed openly lesbian members for ... well as long as I think they've been around. They're doing fine.
I read that the "social welfare" bit was something of a misnomer. It mainly means you're working for the community as opposed to enriching your own members. The IRS allows all sorts of political groups to be tax-exempt, and the IRS even allows them to make endorsements and donate to political...
The sharing links thing is weird. But the rest of what I'm reading seems that it's sort of unrelated to his journalistic work, right? He was doing journalism, but that's not strictly relevant in this case. His journalistic duties are being obstructed, but that's not the reason he's being...
Daniel DMZ3 Wait. I just realized... *everything* in Dallas is just a simulacra of something found in another city, like The Matrix. The only thing unique about Dallas is that it exists for the purpose of copying and repackaging ideas from other places. Dammit Caraway! You win this time.
That's, like, characteristically Dallas. Instead of taking something that's unique to the city and building on it, we need a Blue Ribbon Task Force to assemble and figure out something some other city is known for, and copy it. And then we'll be like that city! Except no, you'll be a cheap...
It's horrible satire. I'm a pretty liberal person (not a conservative by any means) but I loathe the blue-state sneering of the red states. It's pretty much every reason why I'm not a conservative (nationalism, provincialism, tribalism, black-and-white thinking, us vs. them) but applied the...
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