The Earth’s population has nearly doubled in my lifetime. I’m pretty sure we’re not quite endangered yet. I’ll also point out that poor countries that tend to spawn brown players are well above replacement levels if you count those as people.

Their is an old joke from Ireland, during The Troubles.

A man drives up to a checkpoint and the guard in the balaclava and holding an FAL asks: are you a Catholic or a Protestant? (this would reveal your allegiance to the Republicans or the Loyalists).

The man answers: I’m and atheist.

The rifleman responds: Yes, yes, but are you a Catholic atheist or a Protestant atheist?

This is funny to the heretic because we’re still culturally attached to our sect. I read the book; I sat in the pews; I sang the songs. I’m a Protestant atheist and that Catholic shit will always be foreign and weird.

This relies on the assumption that Trump would make better decisions given accurate information.

Nixon was not decent. The difference was that a Senator (Goldwater) told Nixon point blank that he was getting impeached and the senate had the votes to convict and remove.

Like most government officials “retirement” is getting fired.

Anti-theists are stuck in the classic bigot’s dilemma.

On the one hand, they hate the administration. On the other, they love religious discrimination.

I know when we think of politics in church you think of evangelicals and Republicans, but don’t forget that the black Church has been nexus for progressive politics since forever.

I bring this up because a misguided attempt to reign all this in would give a powerful tool to those who’d suppress Democrat voters. (If you ever wonder why Republicans hate Sunday voting, you probably haven’t seen the church bus pull up to the polling station.)

To be fair, the Afghanistan war only lasted weeks. About a thousand of them, but still.