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Let's not forget the fun folks in the Law School, who enjoy writing think-pieces about how selling babies to the highest bidder is good for the babies (because: rich people make better parents).

That said, Obama taught at the other end of that program's interesting color spectrum.

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Just ask the people of Chile.

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You're both winners... here... have some upfists!

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Old Deuteronomy will out last them all.

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OK but don't forget the populations between the countries are pretty not close to the same, so the stats you want to use are gun related death rates...

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Even the offspring, vegan as he is, loves that place.

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USA is still number 1 there. By a huge margin.

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oh come on, we're not THAT close to canada. proper canadian invasion would be MI. and i'm on a bike today.

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we got one at the corner of wilson and broadway (pretty much the most dangerous intersection on the north side). never been in it.

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"Medical faculty were apparently supposed to show up for work and serpentine through the parking lot."

Welcome to health care. We had a shooting in the street outside our front door, and we all still had to come in. It's one of the prices you pay for working health care, no matter what's happening, you have to come in to work.

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It was a dangerous place even back in the '70s. Then there was prof. Ioan P. Couliano, assassinated in the religion department's toilet in '91.

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The mentalities are quite different.

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You are about as funny as a broken leg. You should seriously consider growing up.

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Sadly, it was a guy threatening to shoot 16 white men, preferably police, one for each bullet that struck Laquan. Because why should the wingnuts have a monopoly on the homicidal crazies.

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Nice hat, soon-to-be-deleted commenter.

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"Cloudy With a Chance of Bullets" was a favorite of my kiddos, back when they were kiddos.

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