Just wanted to expound on your good comment: cash on hand is good because if there are widespread, sustained power outages ATMs don’t work and any business that can open will be cash-only. (Source: am from all over the Gulf Coast and been through this exact scenario with Katrina.)

No it isn't. Someone getting a huge raise at work is not considered a religious miracle. Someone claiming their deity heard their fervent prayers and regrew bones, muscle, tendons, skin, nails in a species that is proven to not have the ability to spontaneously regenerate those things . . . welp, that requires proof.

Look, IDK why your kid needs a specialist, IDK what the problem is. But I have a chronic disease and had 5 surgeries in 7 years until I found a specialist 5 hours away and I've been in remission for 2 years now because I quit fucking around with doctor's who don't know shit.

If Cox is recommending Shriner's Hospital for Children, the Shrine center here does transport. (I think? I've seen their transport vans in the parking lot and know the Shriners around the country transport sick kids/families to appointments).

I live on the Square and with the exception of a few houseless in the library, I haven’t seen the usual groups since January 1st. I thought this new law was for sleeping on state land, but what else is going on that they have completely disappeared?

Dahmer isn’t the problem! There are more small-scale murderers than serial killers, check the statistics. Dahmer had parents who should’ve taught him right from wrong. He wasn’t properly trained, that’s the real problem. If his parents had just spent more time with him, or took him to the mall for socialization, he would’ve never murdered all those people. Sure, there were probably warning signs but it’s not his fault, he wasn’t trained.

Alright, look. Are you prepared to go over to FedMed, take home a convicted murderer, and properly train them because they’re good boys who deserve a chance? It’s okay, we can castrate/vaccinate/license them. That’s enough for you to let them around your family, right?

What if I fostered a murderer? Can I bring him to the park, socialization is very important to his rehabilitation. You trust that I trained him, right? Because I’m an expert. The warden I got him from trusts me to train this murderer, so we’re good, right?

“Raw instincts” to do what? There are humans with raw instincts to harm others and we keep them locked up or we execute them. Do you believe serial killers with raw instincts are salvageable with training? Can a murderer coexist with us if we castrate, vaccinate, license, and train them? I believe some could be, a small percentage might be allowed into society with rigorous, highly-focused mental treatment. But there are, without debate, a percentage of those with “raw instincts” who will never qualify to share our space. That is the reality for humans with “raw instincts”.

Why is a dog, a single particular breed with the same raw instincts—murder—given more concession?

Was headed north on Campbell the other day on this same block when a truck turned towards me, going the wrong way. I honked and flashed my lights and all I got in response was a slight wave, like “yeah, yeah, calm down”. It then occurred to me that this driver must do that all the time—purposefully drive the wrong way into oncoming traffic simply because driving around the block would be inconvenient to them.

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again. I have lived in 12 states/several dozen cities and 2 countries and have never seen such selfish, maniacal drivers. I have lived inside the beltways of DC and Houston! Springfield needs to get its shit together.