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Spiral Diner is particularly shitty for vegan food. If a vegan has functional taste buds, they better get used to living on Indian food.

One of their bakers is an A+ lay, though.

Agreed. The argument that the more direct elections become the "better" they become depends on a facile definition of "better". There's only one election we're talking about making more direct here. No one, that I'm aware of, has advocated abandoning representative democracy. Th...

I don't think he's saying that. He literally did, though, admitting that the EC privileges small-population states/rural areas at the expense of where people live and cannot defend that ("whether I like that idea or not is irrelevant"). There is inherent merit in tiered voting. What are t...

Okay, and where did I discuss the wisdom of voluntary blah blah blah.

We're talking about the merits of the system or alternates - if you admit there is no merit to the system but "that's the way it is" cool story, but why say anything? The sky is also blue and water is wet.

Suggesting that small states should cede political advantages to larger ones so larger ones can benefit is stupid. Regardless of your bent on the issue...this is the crux. It's gonna take a lot more than whinging to get 2/3rds of the states to self immolate by way of a Constitutional Amendment. It'...

And you're trying to quibble about small points to cover ignorance of bigger ones. Wait, so you thought "WE'RE A REPUBLIC NOT A DEMOCRACY HAR HAR" was a sweet gotcha line until it was pointed out that we're both and that it's irrelevant to the discussion at hand, now it's a "quibble ...

So we're a republic not a democracy? Whoa. This remains one of the more epically stupid lines in American politics. We're a democracy and a republic... we're a (sound the trumpets) democratic republic. Congrats on making it a little stupider by conflating republic with federalism (we would still be...

Uh... okay. I don't know what you think that has to do with... anything being discussed, but cool story.

The point of the video gets to the real reason people want the change. The reason we have an electoral college was to keep big states (New York and Virginia in particular) from dominating the country. The reason it still exists is the same. Technically speaking, "the reason we have an electora...

So in 2010, two years before Obama was re-elected and six years before she ran, panic buying was driven by Clinton "preparing to run"?

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ChefSteps has a ton of sous vide videos online advertising their classes, the Anova website has recipes and Serious Eats has some sous vide content too.

Maybe that's through a government sponsored entity insurance provider with limited doctor network, limited coverage, etc. Maybe that limited network allows young doctors with a shitload of education debt to have their loans reduced as they provide public service (similar to social workers). We coul...

You said there was no "threat." I showed that the Dem Presidential candidate openly favored gun confiscation. OK, that's not a "threat" to you. But it was to many voters. It's certainly reasonable to take it as hostility to Heller and other gun rights. Was Hillary running for Pr...

What benny said, for possibly the first and last time ever. Nobody forced Hillary to speak up for gun control and to fan gun owners' fears, rational and irrational. This is a pretty sweet combo of loaded question and non-sequitur. You are literally the person who brought up Hillary in response to th...

there was never a threat of any kind of ban or anything Not unless you understand that "Australian-style Gun Control" is confiscation. Hillary favored that. Don't make me break out a YouTube video to prove it. Diane Feinstein wants a British-style ban. So what? I want a billion dollars an...

There has been a shit-ton of speculation for eight years and it went into overdrive this year. Friend who works at the distributor said they had a store that ordered an entire truck full of PMags the week before the election refused delivery the week after - got that store's account revoked, from wh...

The Instapot is great - stovetop pressure cookers are a pain in the ass (even with gas, I find it difficult to hit the sweet spot on pressure), slow cookers are useless if you don't have time in the morning or whenever to get your prep done and the meal started. I find the food is a little more flav...

Any theories as to why they waited this long to push a recount? Couldn't have anything to do with fucking up the Electoral College vote, could it? They who? Stein and the Greens who started the funding drive and the paperwork? No one ever knows their motivations, even the Euro Greens think ours are...

I have a soft spot for dry white poultry - it's the only way my mom cooked chicken breast as a kid so even now that I've discovered so much better it still doesn't taste 'bad' to me.

God, the DNC Chair game is so tiresome every time it comes around when some Dems start acting like an individual's personality and Q rating matters. What percentage of the population has any fucking clue who the RNC or DNC Chair is at any given time? 1%? 5%?

Clinton got the only progressive tax increase in my lifetime, family and medical leave act IIRC, minimum wage increase, domestic violence legislation. Obama got the ACA, ended the worst excesses of the war on terror in terms of torture, Cuba relations, signed Dodd-Frank, Paris Accord, has issued par...

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http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc ... pi/508379/

Nothing to see here, move along

In 2012 Democrats picked up seats in the House and Senate along with returning Obama.
In 1996, Democrats picked up seats in the House but not in the Senate, along with returning Clinton.

So... no? That doesn't fit the facts of the situation.

They won second terms and historically high approval ratings?