Thank you for this excellent post. Your points are thoughtful and well made. Your home state may have produced a monster like Cheney, but it also produced you. It’s not simple.

This horrifying policy is clearly unconstitutional, and the ACLU is working to stop it:

So, after 1 (one) organization man takes 100% of the rap for this horror the rest of the complicit suits expect to walk away without consequences. “How naughty of him, but how were we supposed to know?”

Also note that Hulk, for all his strength and near-invulnerability, feels insecurity and loneliness. And Banner, who is a doctor and has a drive to heal, has been largely powerless and often helpless when he longs to do something heroic as a man of peace. Your solution satisfies the inner cravings of both sides of…

This is a great idea on multiple levels. Besides fixing the gauntlet size problem (other than going through the grind of having the giant dwarf make a new, smaller one and remounting all the stones) and forcing Banner and Hulk to come together to make a composite greater than both, it gives Banner/Hulk such a great…

No, that is still not addressing their freedom of speech rights and it also wipes out their consistent statements that they are doing it specifically to protest racist police brutality. Plus, not everyone is religious and would be willing to lie about it.

I want to add that we should also be calling out the media on their failure to accurately describe her behavior accurately as the racist and conspiratorial lying that it is. Using polite euphemisms in situations like this strengthens the case of the racists and liars and undermines truth:

Glad to hear the show was cancelled (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2018/05/29/roseanne-went-on-a-vitriolic-and-racially-charged-twitter-rampage-now-shes-apologizing/?wpmk=1&wpisrc=al_news__alert-entertain—alert-national), but she should never have been given that platform for her hateful lies…

This sounds like it was a fun contest, but are the recipes themselves family secrets? I see one of the participants posted her recipe in the comments, and I am grateful, but would also like to try some of the others.

I wonder if the ghost writer asked for payment up front.

Added later: Vox has an essay on fridging women characters in movies and fiction generally, including Deadpool 2. It’s worth a read to help end this too-longstanding meme. It’s not only horrible for women, it’s lazy, sloppy plotting. Can’t they come up with some motivation for the hero other than abusing or…

The Daily Beast has a good idea: the NFL is apparently getting away with this because they are classified as a “private corporation.” So there is no excuse for not treating it like one. TAX THEM. It’s way beyond time to end the NFL owners’ status as untaxed billionaire welfare queens.

I am so tired of seeing the deaths of women used as motivations for male characters. It’s so routine a meme that it has a nearly 20-year-old name: “Women in Refrigerators”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Refrigerators It’s another variation of the film treatment of women as things whose only importance is…

Ah yes, those soulful big blue eyes, the windows of his (alleged) soul.

Because real long-term follow ups of children born to those mothers would have taken many years and much cash, and doctors didn’t realize how ignorant they were about potential unknown long-term side effects. This kind of arrogant ignorance combined with a desire to cut short the safety testing process has always…

Too bad they couldn’t invite Harry’s friends the Obamas — had to avert Trump jealous nastiness. Imagine how beautiful Michelle would have been and how much they would have enjoyed the inclusive ceremony.

Ghouliani has a personal space entitlement proportional to his ego and expects his goons and lackeys to clear away the riffraff.

Yes, a lot to hide. Now we hear that the Treasury Dept has begun an investigation ... looking for the whistleblower. I have seen no official statement of concern about the disappearance of the filed SARs or indication that the missing financial data are being sought.

I am assuming (hoping) the information in the two missing SARs is still recoverable from the bank that issued them, but this is a really disturbing development. Also makes me wonder about the accessibility of the many SARs that surely were triggered by the operations of Trump shell companies and other players in this…

Remember when Trump’s first wife Ivana said Trump was reluctant to give their first son his own name?