dudinax

What nonsense. This is great for Putin. There's no American Isolation, USA has begun switching to the authoritarian side and is now directly moving against the democracies. Finland and Sweden were hardly worth it in trade.

There is no constitutional crisis if the Supreme Court and Congress are in on it. We have a cabal of crooks that have captured all three branches.

arrogance, haughtiness, thinking of yourself as more important than others

These attitudes can cause people to step up when it's needed.

The deadly sin of Pride is some made up bullcrap. Pride is as much a virtue as it is a vice.

Though it isn't his to partition

Someone reported that he asked Obama what he'd give to name somebody, and Obama said Blago would "have his appreciation".

Blago said "Fuck that I want money". Reporter pointed out that he probably undervalued a president's appreciation (plus he wouldn't have gone to jail).

In this case she's just on her phone.

My wife does the same thing, but she'll also say an hour in "Brad Pitt is in this movie?" "Yes, dear, he's the main character."

You'd call most people who play chess "absolute beginners". Most people would hang their king if they could and would never remember the stalemate rule until it was too late.

That's only true because Kings can't move into check. This is an unnecessary rule that, like stalemate, makes little difference to high level players, but is a bad rule for low level players.

They are an important part of the game, but they aren't a good twist. If you got rid of stalemate, then the losing player would just resign. Nothing wrong with that in a game that's effectively over.