Porpus

I enjoy their beef jerky. Some of it is legitimately spicy. They use peppers hand-cultivated by the inmates at a Guatemalan insane asylum.

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A rare uplifting article from the WSJ.

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I actually find it somewhat depressing. I would have jumped right on such an opportunity when I was 17, and would have never made it to college. Something along those lines damn near happened, actually, and in hindsight I'm really glad it didn't. I learned a lot in college.

Now, I did work 3 semesters as a coop student in two different plants, and that was a good compromise between what I wanted to do (make a living wage by hook or crook) and what I needed to do (go to college and get educated).

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Good Lord the boot licker has arrived. I always love it when assholes like you act like physically assaulting somebody is no big deal if you're wearing blue.

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No. Cops are worthless drama queens now. Everyone can see it. However, the answer to bad cops is to fire them, decertify them, and, when possible, prosecute them.

The comment I responded to was saying that this person who was wrongfully detained should be able to "retire" because of it, and did so without any contemplation of what the basis for that would be other than, "well, this is America and we sue each other a lot, and when I don't like the person being sued that's good."

This guy has no economic losses here, though. And "retire" from what? Standing around in public places to see how a bunch of small town yokels will respond?

There's a whole subculture of losers now, where they all just sort of sympathize with each other because they are losers of some sort: ugly chicks, bums, the stateless, sexual deviants, etc.

That chick is stacked.

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I don't follow this. Why are we seeing so many football players attending this stuff?

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It's trendy to pretend we care about them... you know, moreso than people who have skills that aren't learned in a back yard during early childhood. I do not.

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Would avoid Atlanta if I could. Like I said about Houston. If you have an opportunity to grow your career then sure go for it but if all things are equal why would anyone just voluntarily move to Atlanta?

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I basically did. There's no professional middle class in New Orleans. Didn't really have any friends there.

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Mississippi is objectively worse than Missouri in just about every metric

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I don't think the infant mortality rate or the average level of educational attainment or income or whatever defines the value of a place. All of those numbers tend to "get better" over time. But where are you in time? If you're living in a dying empire, maybe "twenty years ago" is just a better place to be, infant mortality stats be damned.

That guy should be feeling around for uncooked ramen crumbs under his bunk bed right now.

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So these make the list but hellhole states like Louisiana and Mississippi dont?

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I'm not sure what you think goes on in Mississippi, but "hellhole" isn't the first word that pops to mind. I have been to Nebraska several times (not for LSU baseball LOL), and I will tell you one thing with absolute certainty: Missouri is a hellhole. It's basically as hot as Mississippi, but also 10x colder. It's every bit as ghetto, but with way more of a leftist presence. Oh, and it's landlocked. Good luck getting out in an emergency. You're gonna die... in Missouri :lol:.