Overnight Open Thread (17 Mar 2017)

Happy St. Patrick's Day morons. Be safe out there. It is amateur night at the bars. Also, be careful if you partake too much green beer. It may give you the trots.

Anarchist Road Fixers

Dang. I'm finding it hard to hate this anarchist group. Portland anarchist road care, skilled workers who voluntarily fix roads when local government won't.

Protocol

Reason #345,672 why MSM numbers continue to plummet. In a break from tradition, Trump calls out Obama by name in budget document. I seem to recall Bush being blamed for just about everything. He may not have been named-named in a budget document, but saying "over the past eight years" is essentially saying Bush and ignoring every Obama speech blaming Bush is just dumb.

Cartman Remix

Student Debt

Student loan defaults soar as millions miss payments.

millions of people had not made a payment on $137 billion in federal student loans for at least nine months in 2016, a 14 percent increase in defaults from a year earlier. The consumer watchdog used the latest data from the Education Department, which manages $1.3 trillion in federal student debt owed by 42.4 million Americans.

Budget Cuts

Trump's drain-the-swamp budget puts GOP lawmakers to the test. They'll fail. The GOP has no spine and we're only taking about tiny cuts and already hearing how hard and difficult that'll be.

Yo-Yo Performance to Freebird

Video Games

Oh sure, blame video games for sexism.

Common Core

Not shocking. Common Core doesn't prepare students for college. Or real life.

Gunplay

So Buzzfeed attempted to run the John Wick 3 gun course.

Dog Video

Tonight's ONT brought to you by when a WW2 German Ace stumbled across a crippled B-17 and escorted it home:

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