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Lovely reply, Mj, except for the part about "everybody gets to sit in a truckstop", because we can definitely find better 'hoods to hang out in, lol. ;) I did neglect to mention the 'layover' time, and coming from OTR in an 18 wheeler, I should know better: it's a huge adjustment. It really...

Sanders is a Democratic Socialist, not a Socialist. There's a difference. I don't know anything about Vermont's effort to switch to a single payer system, but I do know that health care as it exists now is neither accessible nor affordable for too many people, and something has to change. Ditto...

Those guys were extremely lucky - that doesn't mean the next ones will be. When armed citizens confront an armed perpetrator, it makes it really hard for law enforcement arriving in the middle of a shootout to know who is on which side - just sayin...

It's easy to say what you would do, knowing the chances of being proven wrong are approximately the same as winning the lottery & being struck by lightning - on the same day. The odds of being proven wrong on the second statement are definitely not in your favor, as proven by the statement I...

It is also a survival imperative to eat, but we have no problem dieting eh? We have learned that what is good for the whole is not necessarily good for every individual, but we haven't applied that to parenthood. We can encourage parenthood among those who are good at it [financially and...

Yep. All we can do is try to make it better. I think one way to do that is to quit pretending that every 'family' has to be a mom & a dad & 2 children, and every one should get married and have children, because that is not working out too well. I agree that the nuclear family is the best way to...

Welcome, Jot. If you want to expedite, the first thing you need to do is learn what it is, because it isn't like OTR trucking. Carriers don't hire drivers, for starters, they contract with independent owner/operators, who are self employed. Some O/O may 'hire' drivers, though said drivers are...

Point made: society encouraged Smith and Yates to have children, because they were married, but decried the fictional Brown, because she wasn't. That's the wrong standard of judgment, IMO.

But our culture promotes motherhood as the ideal for every woman, regardless of her feelings on the matter. Many women [like my youngest daughter] who don't wish to have children are put on the defensive. [Nearly everyone tells her she will change her mind.] I think that's counterproductive. I...

You believe you would, but there's no way of knowing what you'd do if it actually happened, which makes such statements really unhelpful. Wouldn't it be better to be proactive, and try to prevent anyone having to find out that it's not so easy to charge someone who's shooting people?

Aristotle: socialization does not depend upon the number of one's parents, but the parents' commitment to raising children who reflect well upon them, and are an asset to society. I think we need to stop pretending that every woman should have children, because some should just not.

Hindsight is 20/20. Emotions are right now, and they do get us into trouble sometimes, lol.

Since the fictional Murphy Brown was quite capable of providing everything the child needed [including some male role models on at least as many occasions as many fathers are present for their children], why not? A child raised in such circs would stand a much better chance of growing up happy...

As it is no longer possible for one working parent to provide for a family [as it was 40 years ago], what would you suggest parents do with their children? It isn't necessary to include church in a child's [or anyone's] life to teach moral behavior. It's only necessary to value and model that...

Irony: point out that it's men who engage in mass killing, then bemoan the "Murphy Brown" society. Because it's also men who abdicate the responsibility of parenthood that make most women single parents. whether after a divorce, or without benefit of marriage in the first place, it's women who...

Of course I've listened to him. I like him - he's a very good man, and a nice one, but his thoughts on several subjects [the science of evolution, the reason men have sex in prison, a flat tax for everyone] are contrary to fact and reason. I especially dislike those who insist that everyone...

Last time, I called Verizon and was pretty upset over the data charges [to update the maps], and they said just bring it into one of their stores and they'll do it, lol. I didn't though, I wanted my GPS working like NOW, and it is - the updates cleared the problems. :)

Unless it seems to impact his thinking, it seems a pretty dumb thing to fixate on - why does it matter?

That he thinks before he speaks makes his statements even less defensible. Even the latest: "I wouldn't have let the shooter [in Umpqua] kill me." And "In that kind of situation, people should charge the shooter, because there's more of them than him." First, the macho posturing is the wrong...

I think there's more involved than how easy or hard benefits are to get, [like knowledge of available benefits & ways & means of applying for them], but the idea that they are as easy to get as Dave KC says [just call & tell them you need money, the check is on it's way] is contrary to my...