Actually, I'm feeling confident about 2024 too. The economic boom will propel the veep to victory. 2026-2034 will be a dark period though.

Calm down everyone. Rubio will win in 2016. The scandals will matter for Hillary for obvious reasons but Rubio would have beaten her anyway. 8 years of empty chair, an economy gone nowhere, and crackpots everywhere taking advantage of American weakness will result in a red carpet welcome for Republicans. This always happens. The fun parent tells us we can have cookies for breakfast every day. Then when we feel sufficiently sick we look to the responsible parent to cook us some spinach. Then after we spend a few years feeling like Popeye we forget and go back to cookies. If you have to feel nervous, worry about 2024.

Plus, without me, those guys who pass out free Obamaphones would be out of work!  I have at least 60!

OK... right after I waste my day on Ricochet.

EJ did the avatar.... this just keeps getting worse!

You will know them by their jackets.

On the one hand I don't really enjoy travel or interesting food or collecting interesting experiences.

On the other hand I have no career, no hobbies, no talents or abilities... or accomplishments.

So thanks for bringing this up.  I'm gonna go cry.

I'm flummoxed. What could "morally acceptable"even mean? Is the ACA politically acceptable? Is arena football sportingly acceptable? It could mean almost anything. And so means nothing.

This is very simple economics so listen up:  If you tax something, you get less of it.  So...

PAY TORNADO IN MY FRONT YARD TAX  $15

"When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping." To this day, especially in times of "disaster," I remember my mother's words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers – so many caring people in this world."

                                     - Fred Rogers

 If you don’t like what happened at the IRS, then, you’re arguing that profiling is bad policy.

I get a big kick out of absurdly constructed if-then statements that are delivered as an argument walk-off.   It is really a great tactic.  Almost anything can be forced into the formula and any defense against the statement only legitimizes it.

If you don't like the weather today, then, you must be for international emission reduction targets.

If you don't like getting a flu shot, then, you must be anti-science.

If you don't like chocolate cake, then, you must be arguing for the mass slaughter of camels.

One of the guys in that photo forgot to check the weather report before getting dressed in the morning. Can you guess which one?

I've heard it said that creativity is taking two existing ideas and bringing them together to form a new idea.

The Beatles brought together several existing musical styles and formed a new sound.  That sound has been the sound in popular music ever since.

I disagree. 

Before the Beatles nobody sounded like the Beatles.  Since the Beatles everybody sounds like the Beatles.

I think that sound has become so familiar to us that we forget the creation of it was genius.

Definitely Piano Man

A good companion question might be:

What songs or artists are undeservingly underplayed?