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Your cursory reading is essentially correct. From 1983-1987 the contribution rate was essentially halved, and since 1987, successive provincial governments have essentially been using resource royalties to fund general expenditures and avoid raising taxes instead of contributing to the fund. In...

I'm not super surprised about Scheer's personal numbers being what they are - he barely won the Conservative leadership in the first place.

I think people fixate on the higher annual expenditures because that "makes sense" (which the study acknowledges is true), but don't fully account for lifetime expenditures.

I don't think Twitch has ever aspired to be a family friendly brand. Twitch chat being a toxic cesspool isn't an idea that just gets invented out of whole cloth. I'm also 100% positive that people crusading against streamers like Alinity are not doing so because they want Twitch to be a brand...

But that's my point - it doesn't matter whether it's out of true belief in progressive values, or whether it's a calculated move based on demographics, Swift's peers have been more outspoken than her. The fact that Swift "held out" for so long relative to her her contemporaries has been...

For what it is worth, some people argue that Microsoft's discipline kept Bungie on track and focused during the Halo days. Given how chaotic development Destiny / Destiny 2 seem to have been, it's not an entirely ridiculous argument. Of course Obsidian is a different studio altogether, but it's...

My guess is that her reluctance to be openly political when most of her contemporaries were increasingly willing to be openly liberal / Democrat was interpreted as a sign that she's a secret Republican / alt-right supporter / whatever.

I think the idea is that Murkowski would vote no in a floor vote alongside Flake if there is no investigation. Even if Flake sticks to his guns and votes no, it only really works if there's at least one other Republican willing to vote no alongside him (and all the Democrats vote no as well)...

Presumably this also gives cover to others to vote "no" if McConnell tries to jam through a floor vote without an investigation ("let the investigation run its course"). The question is whether the nomination gets pulled. I can't see Kavanaugh willingly backing down after what he said...

I wonder if this is just to give the some senators cover in case Kavanaugh doesn't get confirmed - they can say that they offered up a strong defense in the hearing, but it wasn't enough.

I get that, and I think no one really expects it to be totally non-partisan (they have more than one judge, after all), but to my recollection, virtually every judge has at least paid notional lip service to the notion that they just "call balls and strikes". Kavanaugh basically called this a...

At this point, one would think that confirming him to the court would pretty much be a death knell to the idea of a non-partisan Supreme Court. I know it's dangerously close to a partisan institution already (if it not already is), but at this point it's pretty much open warfare now, if not when...

Not to mention all of those accusations that kept Roberts and Alito off the court.

I for one think it's just flat out concern trolling, but he'll get a pass.

Sure, but at some point you have to shit or get off the pot. If the idea is that there are all these people who really think Trump is awful but made some sort of Faustian pact because of economic anxiety or because conservative judges or whatever need time to come around, then I think it's fair...

Maybe not directly, but you seem to carry an awful lot of water for a lot of awful people.

Practically I think standing for the anthem is less of a sticking point in the NBA given the league has given players wide latitude to voice their opinions on a wide range of social issues. And I think it helps that the NBA's star players and coaches are willing to speak out on issues they care...

I actually don't think Russia being out will be a huge impact, at least in terms of what the medal count looks like. They're a very competitive team for sure, but they haven't been dominating medal counts over everyone else recently. They're more or less top 5, but I don't think they've topped...

While that is probably the right response to the underlying premise of his "argument", I don't think it's entirely disingenuous at all for to suggest he's an asshat who deserved to be fired and call him out for his bullshit. I say that even if I were to accept his underlying premise that these...

Yeah, but even if we accept the premise that these intrinsic "preferences" are a) legitimate and b) meaningful, I'm not sure we are even remotely near the point where such "preferences" are the only (or even a primary) reason we don't see more women in leadership roles in technology (or in...