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  1. Another conservative who waxes poetic about the private sector and the ills of government but spends his entire life in government.  He's a Dick Cheney Republican.

    The Democrats were gearing up to make Ryan's politics a nationwide issue this time.  Connor Lamb was the first one smart enough to actually make an issue of Ryan's wildly unpopular ideas.  Maybe Ryan didn't want to be Pelosi'ed.

  2. I always laugh at conservatives who use "waste" as an excuse to cut government spending but won't blink an eye at the military budget.  I laugh even harder when they point to the private sector as an example of frugality as compared to the government.  Meanwhile, the entire tech industry is a monument to wasteful spending.  Corporations can waste money at a prolific pace.

  3. 10 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

    He's going to be Trump's Gerald Ford. Pence will resign "to focus on his family" when he finds out the Russians have videos of him touching another man's penis. Trump resigns or is removed from office, President Ryan pardons Trump.

    I'll laugh if the timeline gets messed up and we have President Pelosi granting the pardons.

    Fox News will be in full on nuclear meltdown....

  4. 6 hours ago, FondrenRoad said:

    In Europe, for sure.  Latin America too.  I prefer small towns to cities in both.  In America, hell no. Fuck driving over to the highway exit to choose from McDs and Walmart. The only thing American small towns have going for them is gas station tamales. 

    Small towns in America are all the same if you think about.  You get 30 miles outside of a big city and the only thing different are the accents.

  5. Said this earlier but I'm not sure DC makes sense.  The labor force is tilted towards the federal government and no way they leave the warm bosom of the federal government to work at the grind house that is Amazon.

    Not sure they'd recruit well to DC, either.  One of their problems with recruiting to Seattle is cost of living and DC isn't much better.  

    However, they do spread their influence over two states (Maryland and Virginia) in addition to DC.  That's not unimportant.

  6. 6 hours ago, Hawndoh said:

    I could do small town if I had one good Texmex restaurant and fast internet. 

    I rarely leave my house as it is and shop almost exclusively on amazon. 

    Sounds like a fascinating existence.

    Three years later, SurlyHorns would wonder how you got to 100,000 posts.

  7. On 4/8/2018 at 9:14 AM, GhostOfTomJoad said:

    Just finished watching it. Two things come to mind:

     

    1. A whole bunch of enablers need to rot in hell alongside Joe Pa and Sandusky
    2. Barry Levinson did a fantastic job with this, and I hope he's whispering in Peter Berg's ear right now saying "you're just the right guy to direct the film about Art Briles and Baylor

     

    Baylor could be Part 2 and Michigan State Part 3.

  8. On 4/8/2018 at 7:26 AM, nycHorn said:

    Honestly, the best thing that could have happened for Paterno's legacy is to have passed as quickly as he did.  

    We were talking about this as we watched it.  Had he lived long enough to testify at trial or plead out to something, this would be a completely different conversation.

  9. 2 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Here in Texas, and I'd say Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, and some of the other states not too far off, I'd agree with this to an extent - there are plenty who remain behind because that's all they have.  But plenty go off and then come back, because it has what they want.  Still, you do get that, especially in the South and West.

    But when we visit relatives in New York, we try to spend a little time in Vermont and New Hampshire, and you go through some of these small towns, and if we were to move to a small town, it would have to be in a place like that.  They are close to a lot of major metro areas, they usually have decent options for getting around within the region (decent roads, rail, etc.), and a lot of them are full of people who actually enjoy where they live.  They also have four seasons, and the decent snow/mountains adds a lot to the winter activities.  Oh, and their houses don't look like 15-day wonders and there's a lot of variety.

    They don't feel quite as small, because usually they have a lot to do within a very short distance and the layout and architecture of small towns there differ from small towns here, because those small towns were laid out centuries ago.

    You go through small towns in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, etc., and it's easy to recognize the different from say New England - our small towns are usually built around a railroad depot (or former depot), and they easily run together - towns built around the railroads were built by the same people - speculators, or people who were moving along with the RR to build the next town.  House designs were 15-30 day wonders (if that) meant to house people temporarily, and then they just kind of stuck around, and began to resemble what you think is taught at the Aggy School of Architecture.

    Many small towns in New England just have a much different feel, particularly those built in the 1700s.

    And many had a European influence.  You go to small towns in Western Europe, and many of them are just beautiful and well-designed.

    Never thought about the historical differences in how the towns were laid out.  Makes sense, though.

    I think what we're all trying to say on this thread is that we'd live in small towns if they're high end.  (Fredericksburg, Napa/Sonoma, certain NE towns, college towns, etc.)  However, those towns are the exception to the rule when it comes to small towns.

  10. On 4/7/2018 at 10:55 AM, Bozo_Casanova said:

    It's just too damn expensive for most people to justify.

     

    This is the correct answer.  I'll spend $1M on a house but I won't spend $10K for the right to buy one seat and I love college football.

    Sports in general are doing themselves a long term disservice.  It's too expensive to take your family to these things and a generation from now, you're not going to have a generation of 30 year olds who fondly remember going to games with their dads.

  11. 49 minutes ago, kevwun said:

    LL has said it many times before, if college educated whites are split 50/50 or even 60/40 then the gerrymandered districts are not gerrymandered anymore in favor of Republicans.

    This is what I was going to say but you beat me to it.  The business model of the GOP is to get 75% of the upscale whites.  Move that down to even 60% and the whole thing falls apart.  Look at the elections we've seen since 2016.  In the ones where you've had sizable blocks of upscale white voters, you've seen a huge shift.  (Virginia, for example.)  Those gerrymandered districts become millstones around their neck if the suburban whites start to fall off.

  12. While you're romanticizing small towns, there's one thing you're forgetting.  They're filled with dipshits and meth heads/pill poppers.  It's mostly the stupid and/or lazy that stayed there and never left.  So, there's your new social circle.  Enjoy.

    One more thing.  If you have adult children, they'll never come to see you because you live out in butt fuck nowhere.  (This might be a plus, though.)  Even if you live in the some Hill Country town and they live in Houston, it's a pain in the ass for them to make the trip.  Don't expect Johnny to drive 5 hours on a Friday to spend two days with you in your rural utopia, which basically includes watching sports on TV.

    Father in law retired to some rural landscape an hour outside of Little Rock.  The family rarely went to see him because he was an hour outside of Little Rock.  He eventually pulled up stakes and moved to Nashville.  (We told him we didn't care where he lived, just make it close to an airport.)  He also took a bath on the Arky house because no one wants to live an hour outside of Little Rock.  He also got tired of the people in "the country."  They're not some gentleman farmers like you think they are.  They're generally people with social isolationist tendencies.  

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  13. 3 hours ago, Weezy said:

    Sounds like Jasper, AR... Huntsville, AR over towards Fayetteville would be a better option.  Not too close to Fayetteville, but close enough to take advantage of the shopping and medical facilities.  But, you'd still be exposed to those asshat Hog fans.

    If his wife is Hispanic, he wants nothing to do with anything East of Fayetteville.  The four towns in Northwest Arky are all pretty good, actually, and they fit into this discussion.  They collectively total about 500,000 people so I guess it depends how you define "small town."  Don't kid yourself, though.  That area is nice but it's surrounding by Hillbillies to the East and North and Okie Trailer trash and casinos to the South and West.

    I think some of you are confusing what a "small town," is.  Cities of 200,000 aren't "small towns" and suburbs like Boerne aren't "small towns."  I guess my definition is something under 20,000 people that is more than an hour from a metro area.  That means your universe is almost exclusively that town.  If you're 30 minutes away from a metro area, you're going there all of the time and just living in some small town.

    Screw living in a small town, though.  What are you doing after 3 months on a daily basis?  

    Also, why is small town living the dream of the old white guy?

  14. 16 minutes ago, 'stache said:

    I also was woken up twice this weekend by earthquakes. Nice to see all that fraking, while fucking up the earth and regularly shaking the whole state, was totally worthwhile. Harold Hamm and his fat ass cabal make a few extra hundreds of millions of dollars, and we got earthquakes and more school spending cuts. Fuck this state, fuck everything.

    Harold Hamm has to pay for that divorce somehow.

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