Wait, why exactly did you vote the second time? It's not like we didn't know he was running a secretive administration before the election (indeed, he made a vote in favor of secrecy while he was still in the senate, before getting elected the first time).

I can sort of understand saying that he was better than the alternatives and that's why you voted for him, but that's not something you would apologize for, really....

I fear it's more a problem of 'being out of touch with reality'

Local hippies protest solar, and really anything

Because they're not communist anymore. I like the word too, but

I don't think they really use 'Tovarish' anymore......

Who exactly would have asked?

True point.

All the farmers in California are digging deeper/bigger wells. So they feel ok for the next few years. Of course it drains the aquifer, but no one seems to care about that, for some reason.

I kind of feel like every story is sensationalized so much, whether a celebrity tweet or a war in Iraq, that people have trouble remembering what a true crisis is like. It's just another story, I need to water my lawn and the water still comes out of the hose.

Sad thing is Los Angeles is right there on the ocean......they have plenty of water if they would just purify it instead of stealing it from half of the rest of the country.

I'm in favor of more research, but we already have several different departments that are researching that. The DoE is a department that has suffered from scope creep, they are in charge of unrelated things like genomics research. I'm in favor of genomics research, but once again, it's not really something you'd expect to see in the DoE.

Yes, well, not every IT person is as competent as you

Our world would be better if everyone took an advanced statistics class, starting with the presidential debates wouldn't be so utterly inane. If you don't use the stuff you learned in a statistics class, it's because you didn't learn anything.

Well yeah, because often their either used for censorship, or are cheap and end up slowing the internet down.

How did you know that others didn't click on it and then not mention it to anyone?

That one's easy, English majors who've never taken a Shakespeare course aren't worth very much. Kids graduated thinking their piece of paper was worth something......turns out it's not worth much if you can't do anything.