Thank you for that

The more I learn about the concessions made to the southern slave owners I wish the founders hadn't tried so hard to include them in the union. The north and the south were so different it seems like it would be as doomed to failure as jamming all the Balkan states into a single country.

Every time Texas threatens to secede and doesn't I wish we had the choice to vote them out so they could see just how badly they are not the hot shit they think they are.

"Nothing" The answer is nothing

They do the same thing building architects do. They draw pretty pictures of the end product that may of may not be structurally sound, then rely on engineers to build it and make sure it doesn't collapse.

In the US it usually three times more expensive to put someone to death than to incarcerate them for life

Great! Now do Apple

I highly recommend the book "We Have No Idea" by Jorge Cham and Daniel Whitesom. Great explanations of what we know about the universe (with hilarious comic illustrations) and a profound message of just how much we don't know.

Require officers to carry liability insurance like doctors

No one deserves to get shanked. Someone should just kneel on his neck until he shows some remorse

Internal calculations were are all done in metric, but converted to traditional US units because many of the astronauts were pilots and more used to them

OMG, the signatures at the end. Lol!

Similarly, Colorado had a program to give out free birth control and it reduced abortions by like 30%. But Republicans shut the program down because it isn't about saving babies, it's about controlling women.