Or if you're from Latin America, you say ee-bee-sah because we don't use seseo (pronouncing "z" like "th", a feature of Castillian Spanish but usually not Latin American Spanish). I've gotten weird looks from pretentious hipsters over that one.

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That's why it's a teaser.

And the joke made a soft whistling noise as it flew over your head.

Theo James. Also known as the hot Pakistani in Downton Abbey.

I mentioned it in another post. It has to do with the structure of Welfare and The War on Poverty in the 60s overwhelmingly favoring single mothers and widows because women can't take care of themselves, but if there's a Man in the family he shouldn't need help Providing.

Even if that's true, you're suffering from confirmation bias. When benefits scamming happens, it's such a tiny problem, proportionate to the whole system, that "fixes" are counterproductive.

In your hypothetical, the reason is that section 4 (or whichever the number is of the section they repealed) requires a lengthy federal vetting process to change any voting laws in historically racist jurisdictions, which can include things as simple as changing polling places.

Voter ID laws aren't just about proving yourself to be the person you claim, they're more restrictive than that. For example, under the law Florida proposed, your address on your ID had to match your current place of residence on your voter registration. 90% of my university (and most other schools) wouldn't have been…

He was a TV writer before he started writing novels, in the 70s.

Sexual Orientation is not federally protected. It was used here because it's protected at the state level.

Legally, they're not the same because one is protected and the other isn't.

"Neo-Nazi" and "Klansmen" are not protected classes, and discrimination on those grounds is not actionable. In New Mexico, "gay" is a protected class.

My favorite part of that interview was that at the time she was approximately 47 months pregnant. When Handler joked "How did that happen?" She said

And you're one of those people who thinks that all acts are equal and free of historical context.

I read an interesting article from a legal perspective about rape and the law, that really drove home how awful rape is, and why it's so incredibly difficult to prosecute (should it get as far as a trial, which is infinitesimally rare already). EMPHASIS: i am not excusing rapists or saying they shouldn't be…

No one is blaming the individual here. The point is it's impossible to view his choice outside the context of his family's history, because it doesn't exist outside the context of his family's history.

This is the same argument that's always made about "white guilt" and the lack thereof. No, he shouldn't feel personally guilty about British imperialism. You're right, he didn't do it, and no one is blaming him for it. However, he is unavoidably tied by the circumstances of his birth to the people who did. His actions…

Clinical trials take a veeeeeery long time. This sounds like a Phase I trial (testing on healthy patients for a specific side effect), so it will be a long time, if it ever happens at all.

While I'm gay, and therefore don't have to worry about birth control personally, this is great news. On the other hand, I'm much more interested in RISUG.