Jun 14
Max Solomon commented on
Jeb Bush: We Need Immigrants Because They're "More Fertile".
fnarf, fertile means both; able to produce fruit and producing fruit in abundance.
immigrants may be doing the latter, but they aren't more biologically, the former, and that's where offense could be taken by the skimming poster.
@23: we still are a superpower.
Jun 14
Max Solomon commented on
I Think Rick Santorum Just Said Something True.
@4: except the dems are far more likely to BE brown, black, female, union, etc. "they're all the same" is a tired dismissal. they are NOT the same, even if dems are compromised and spineless.
and there's plenty of blue-collar whites (only) the GOP could put on the stage if they wanted. they're not in the GOP for economic reasons, though. they're there because of fetuses, or teabagging, or guns, or anti-intellectualism, or racism, or some other social issue malarky. eastern washington is awash with them.
Jun 14
Max Solomon answered a bunch of weird questions about himself or herself.
Jun 14
Max Solomon commented on
Jeb Bush: We Need Immigrants Because They're "More Fertile".
only because they still have cultural traditions of large families based on high childhood mortality rates (that have declined with modern sanitation and healthcare). mrs. solomon's great-grandmother in old blighty had 8 kids, 2 lived. my great grandmother in cincinnati had 9 kids, 7 lived. now idiot octomon has 8 premies and they all live.
then there is a layer of religious proscriptions against women's rights in general & reproductive rights in specific. this is why evangelicals have their "quiverfull" movement.
once immigrant families reach economic and educational parity with whitey, their birth rate falls in line with whitey's.
unless they're still in the grip of primitive monotheism.
Jun 14
Max Solomon commented on
The Friday Morning News.
@15: "the government" didn't fuck Libya up that much. or tunisia. or egypt for that matter - in fact, they had a peaceful democratic transition of power (that we don't like the results of, but tolerated).
i wonder: what's different about "the government" between then and now? there's something... can't put my finger on it...
and i wouldn't be that bummed because this city really has crap makeshift music venues.
i'm not talking about you, showbox.