I am not surprised in the least that this doctor is a woman. FGM is often insisted upon by the women who have themselves endured it. I’m no fan of Ayaan Hirsi but she is clear that her father opposed the procedure, and her grandmother secreted her away from the home to undergo it. As well as another case profiled on…

True story from a “low-key” bride who spent <$300 on her dress. When I first saw my sister-in-law after the ceremony she said—“You look so...comfortable.”

Thanks to the reader who emailed to correct that Mary of Teck was actually Charles’s great-grandmother. The fact that all these people live so long scrambles my timelines.

We are truly living in the darkest timeline.

He’s right: the Civil War was unnecessary. The South didn’t need to use slave labor and could have abolished it. The South didn’t need to form and army or an ad hoc government. They didn’t need to make a terribly backed currency or try and be an independent country.

They’re the Democratic Leaders in the House and Senate so their voice is given more play than others as it’s assumed they speak for their members. If Kristin Gillibrand or Al Franken said something (and I don’t know if they have), the press wouldn’t cover it as much.

Didn’t vote for Trump, actively campaigned for Hillary, and am on Obamacare with subsidized payments. I’m sorry you see my health as collateral damage. The “who cares, it’s not me” mentality is what got us in this mess in the first place.

Successful people commit suicide. Black people commit suicide. Muslim people commit suicide. The police obviously need to rule out every possibility of foul play. But based on this post we know nothing about her personal life, if she was suffering from depression, having financial problems, found out she had incurable…

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would love to read an article about something a comedian did where people discuss the article instead of every comment being “i personally dont find him as funny as i used to”

My coworker was super upset/offended when I got confused and asked when easter was. I don’t celebrate easter and it moves. I can’t keep up. Get over yourself!

Noteworthy that the president never issued a “thoughts and prayers” statement about this tragedy.

“Caitlyn also claims she believes Robert represented Simpson because he was jealous that Kris married Bruce. “I wonder if it was his way of saying to her what I think she was saying to him when she married me: a big f—k you,” 

No wonder none of her stepkids want anything to do with her. It’s not about being trans, it’s about being such a petty little person that she’d use her memoir to smear a dead man while simultaneously making it all about how jealous said dead man supposedly was of Bruce Jenner.

I think given the level of police brutality in this country, anyone might be afraid that the police might kill them, especially a person of color.

Not to mention, why aren’t they looking at CPD’s “troubled past” or digging more into which officer(s) were responsible and the history of complaints against the officer(s)?

IL4 is already one of the smallest voting districts in the country, its either this absurd shape or the two Hispanic communities having no representative at all.

Arguably that swings both ways, though. And how does that explain white working class swinging Republican?

He does use it as an example - both as an example of weirdly shaped districts and as an example of when it makes sense to make weirdly shaped districts.