It's gross out there.

I work for a small ISP and regularly talk to other small ISPs. We fight hard for this grant money, and what we do get goes into expanding fiber coverage. The gov't is getting wiser to the big boys pocketing the money and while it still happens, there is less of it going on now.

But all that said, we would overall be better served if internet service was nationalized.

The driftless area around Dubuque is pretty cool. My family likes Okoboji. I probably went to college the same place you are now, or at least drank with people from there. The rest of the state can die in a fire.

This guy is an embarrassment. Why anyone would like him is beyond me.

Cops sure do seem to work hard at being shitty. Maybe if they didn't do that, they wouldn't risk losing their jobs?

It's peak craft beer! Will it follow the Hubbert curve?

Southern MN was awful yesterday and early today, but it's improved this afternoon.

He deserves worse, but this is a good start.

This is surprising, definitely not the way I expected it to turn out.

It's like we've learned nothing.

That's known as Gish Gallop and it is, sadly, super effective because it always takes longer to disprove a lie than to make one up. And that assumes you can get peoples attention for the disproving.

Did not hear about that. He sucks, but Elmo sucks more.

What sort of skills you looking for? Do you pay in those aforementioned penis pills? ...asking for a friend

It's intimidation, he says crap like this constantly, it's incredible. If I did this I'd be locked up.