Old Man

Because the wife would throw one of her epic hissy fits if they didn't. And it's the closest branch of the oldest, largest, guilt-trippiest, franchise of Christianity, to which she subscribes. I should stress that there were no actual clergy present at this discussion, just typical members of the congregation.

Ha. I got sucked into a bible discussion a few weeks back when I dropped the kids off at Sunday school. It started out uncomfortable, then became hilarious when the discussion turned to homelessness. According to Christ, it's wrong to give free food or medical assistance to the homeless, because it just encourages them to be lazy and dependent on aid. Homeless people choose to be addicted, or jobless, or mentally ill, you see. Perhaps my copy of the Bible is out of date? Anyway I can't make waves because my kids go there, but it was the most educational church event I have ever attended.

I refuse to accept that this "era we're in" is a new normal or acceptable in any way.

Especially since Mexico's proximity to the largest consumer of illegal narcotics is the entire reason they have these cartel problems in the first place.

Portlanders may be unique among American cities in actually caring about their homeless population or considering them to be human beings.

It's been plunging clear down into the sixties at night here for a couple of weeks. Fahrenheit.

You could move. Then again rent is probably cheaper where you're currently at.

It's hotter than that where he ascended from.

That article doesn't even mention the evidence that Trump was laundering Russian money for decades. Dude is bought and paid for.

Or that the universe doesn't run on Hero, but some other craptastic system that can't handle it.

You can blame the news media for at least some of that. Anything remotely technical is going to get mangled in translation to English by a journalist* on a deadline. Science, aviation, IT, military, medical studies, firearms, all routinely misreported. * And even these are an endangered species compared to bloggers or random bloviators on the Internet.

I'd prefer it if this were modified to say that there are things science doesn't understand yet. There's enough room in theories of dark matter, chaos theory, and cosmological probability to support a comic book explanation of magic.

And girls I've dated.

Cancer, apparently?

Applying the workings of our own reality don't even make sense when applied to our own reality.

Everyone but us?

Sunday morning there's a halo hanging from the corner of my girlfriend's four post bed...

Just get a rubber stamp with the letter 'F' on it.

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Is that like a license to kill? Maybe I should have been an artist?

Man, I can't wait for 2016 to end.

Who are they supposed to starve?

Because all spells have a price, and even a life as worthless as mine could buy a decent amount of magic.

As though defunding Planned Parenthood and repealing the ACA won't have a similar effect.

Reckon that depends on the curse, but you'd probably get a pretty big limitation for "can only be cast seconds before death".