I will share with you all the technique it took me thirty years to develop:

THANK YOU. My house burned down years ago—we were in a rural area where there wasn’t any sort of municipal service. We didn’t even know our house was on fire until it was gone—but the Red Cross was there with hotel vouchers and toothbrushes and information.

I’m a Texan, and I know a LOT of Republicans—and they don’t deserve this. It’s important to remember that it’s Cruz and Gohmert who vote against federal aid—but that’s not what their most of their constituents want. Cruz in particular is part of a vocal minority, even within his own party.

The reason for that is that the worst parts of the hurricane hit pretty far from Houston. Houston just didn’t expect to get hit as hard as they did (they got pelted by an outer arm of the storm that dumped some of the worst rains—but that arm could’ve easily missed them). Plus the “cone of uncertainty” of Harvey’s…

Yep. From what I read early on, he was only doing this because a couple of douches in the Freedom Caucus threatened to hold his borderwall funding hostage if he didn’t.

They said they weren’t going to act on his ridiculous Twitter pronouncement—which was likely a subtle way of expressing disapproval. But if he actually goes through the proper legal channels, they probably won’t have a choice.

I didn’t miss it. I just didn’t care. You can read or not—your choice.

Actually, you can. And most people do. We work for corporations even though we hate what they’re doing to our country. We wear clothes and use smartphones and computers built in sweat shops. We drive cars and drink electricity down like it’s air even though we know that doing so is literally ending the world. We get…

Right—and if he CHOSE to vote Republican or CHOSE to donate money to the Heritage Foundation, I would agree with you. I don’t think one can be a feminist while making those choices, because those are activities that are actively working to limit women’s abilities to compete and function as equals to men. Being a…

Give me a fucking break. No, it’s not. Feminism is about equality, not about being nice. You can believe that women are equal and due equal rights under the law and still be an asshole and a terrible husband.

The thing with Charisma Carpenter wasn’t that he didn’t tell her “earlier”—it was that he and the Angel team had plotted out all season 4, and had a good percentage written when Carpenter got pregnant. (From what I understand, she told him as early as you usually tell a boss that you’re pregnant). Then basically, he…

I don’t get it either. It’s not as though women never cheat. Is Carrie Fisher unfeminist because she cheated? What about Gloria Steinem? Cheating is not about respecting women—or even your spouse. It’s about your own self-esteem and need for adoration or assurance. You can have those issues and still be…

It might be the case that this is related to journalism... but that would mean that she dug up something damning on him, went onto his homemade submarine with only him, went underwater, THEN confronted him about something that was so distressing that he was willing to murder over it. That... seems like a bad plan to…

Yes! I read this article yesterday, and I was so frustrated. I mean, set aside Trump’s unpresidential behavior. The people who voted for Trump didn’t just overlook the pussygrabbing and “Mexicans are rapists” and Obama birthering. They ignored the fact that Trump had NO substance. Not in the campaign, and still, 9…

No, they aren’t “originalist”—they actually lean toward expanding rights (which is why they often get labeled liberal), but the primary mission is to defend the Constitution against any incursions and defend people’s ability to exercise their constitutional freedoms.

The ACLU protects the Constitution, not the law. So the Muslim ban, while a law (or really, an exec. order), is unconstitutional. Therefore, they fought against it. Rallies by hate groups, as long as they aren’t overtly inciting violence, are a legal exercise of constitutionally protected free speech. Therefore the…

Right... they needed to use due process to prove the intent to incite violence. If you are unable to prove that intent, then hate speech is protected.

I’ve never heard of antifa or BLM killing anyone or even committing attacks other than random violence (like throwing mol. cocktails, breaking shit, etc.). But I don’t know for sure.

Yeah, no. You’re wrong about the Skokie case. The point of the ruling is that they had to prove that the NSP was inciting violence, rather than just exercising free speech. The city couldn’t curb their speech without—with due process—proving the intent to incite violence.

No, of course I’m not saying that. I don’t know if those forces (state guard, troopers, other municipalities) can only be called in after a crisis—or if you can ask in advance. (Hurricanes seem a little different to me than protests—but maybe I’m crazy. For storms and predictable disasters, I would think you would…