While working on an opera, we came up with “Dong Giovanni” and Dona Anal (the lead characters are Don Giovanni and Dona Ana).

CW: discussion of police killing of black people, and White Nationalist ideals.

The Australian Federal government cut out a welfare benefit for parents that didn’t vaccinate (medical exemptions only). There was a massive spike in catch-up vaccinations around the time the policy came in, and vaccination since then has been higher. I can’t find the source, but I think it’s around 14,000 kids have…

...it’s exhausting not being free to reflexively drop the N word? Do these people have to practice at home so they don’t slip up?

I’m a straight woman, and I wouldn’t touch this creep with a stick. Well...maybe a baseball bat. For a given value of “touch”. OK, I’d beat the crap out of him.

In December 2017, DNA from a previously untested rape kit led to the indictment of Michael Paladino, 28, for a 2005 sexual assault. Further investigation connected Paladino to five other sexual assault cases between 2003 and 2006, including many where the victims were minors at the time of the assault. Paladino is…

OK, so which is it?:

They should have asked Jared Kushner or Donald Trump for advice.

The pro-life boys get very, very angry...

You’re right, I’m assuming evidence of sexual abuse will show up at the autopsy. I may be wrong; occasionally a child will be killed simply because a new partner doesn’t want them.

True; mothers often enable the sexual abuse of their partner, and sometimes even join in.  They don’t often initiate sexual abuse. Dad’s girlfriend tends to be unwelcoming and jealous of his attention, and/or physically abusive. Again, she’s less often sexually abusive.

Nothing about this adds up.

Sigh, that was my first thought when the dad was listed in a way where he didn’t seem complicit- “Probably the mom’s boyfriend”.

I do like Bishop’s correction to Melania’s gender assumptions.

Australia revoked a welfare payment to families with non-vaccinated children (medical reasons excepted) and saw something like 40,000 extra kids vaccinated. The value of the payments? A$2 a day per child. They literally put a price on their child’s life, and that price is...$2 a day.

The weight limits in wrestling create some fascinating opportunities that don’t exist in other sports.

My thoughts exactly. Cops just happened to be trawling through the strip club where Stormy was performing, and she just happened to make “inappropriate contact” with one. No premeditation or targeting from an organisation that notoriously leans right. No sir. How could anyone even think such a thing?

CW: discussion of TERF bullshit.

I’m sorry, I must have put myself really badly. You’re absolutely right the entire premise is absurd, gross and illogical. I genuinely do want to support trans people.

You’re absolutely right.  It’s a bullshit argument made by bullshit people.