Yeah, I think its hard after someone’s funeral to go back and say “I really wish I had criticized that person more during the eulogy.” I get that. I just don’t entirely forgive her for making this sort of irreversible error in the first place. Its not like she doesn’t have a whole team of speech-writers to fact check…

When was “before it was an issue of votes and winning?” Honestly. Like in 2000? When she was getting ready to run for the Senate?

While I certainly would not say people should not push for greater diversity and inclusion of groups they do not belong to, I also think it’s ok for a person to speak specifically about their own experiences or group. I especially appreciate the difference between his comments and Meryl Streep’s, where he did not try…

Since we couldn’t get Warren 2016 going, we should maybe push for KAJ 2024 (or 2020 if we get a GOP POTUS next year and the country doesn’t implode before the next election). Someone start a petition! Can political campaigns have a Go Fund Me?

By guy at the top, do you mean God?

Oh, I’m not saying that there aren’t some truly progressive folks in the city (and the county). However, a populace that continually elects that asshat Slay, who then continues to employ that bigger asshat Dotson, is not persuasive, broadly speaking. There are some very progressive Alderman (and private citizens!),…

I live in the STL metro area and spend most of my time in the city. Given how segregated the city is and how not committed it’s residents are to fixing that, how much the public schools struggle and lack of commitment to resolving that, and the general disdain of many residents for people not just like them, I’m not…

Given that Columbia couldn’t get itself a single doctor to work at its Planned Parenthood for years, then the hospital promptly cancelled her privileges almost as soon as it did find a doc, I’m not sure it’s really the state’s most progressive city. I’m not sure what is, though? Maybe Kansas City?

Not sure how to rank this v. Kevin Johnson in terms of important stories. There are lots of shitty people to report on.

We all have issues. I would hardly call being biracial but with parents wealthy enough for assisted reproductive technology an inherently “rough” life that is likely to result in maladjustment. Unless you mean bc her parents are probably racists. Lots of brown people are perfectly well adjusted.

1. I agree with everything you’ve said.

I will give you a dollar and a couch to sleep on until you find a new apartment if you move to the Midwest and befriend me so I can hit the friend jackpot.

Whether it is or is not “basic logic” does not negate your lack of basic logic in the “everyone knows blah blah blah” statement. People demonstrate all day, everyday, that they are capable of being illogical. What is factually true and what people “obviously know” are simply not always the same. (Also, I am not saying…

Well, since most of what Planned Parenthood does is provide “better healthcare,” by which I mean pap smears, contraception, STD tests, and mammograms, I’m not sure what you mean by “would it be necessary.” However, if you mean how many abortions would they provide? The answer is certainly fewer. Studies have shown…

You are ... insane? Unaware of people separate from yourself? I’m not sure. But millions of people disagree about things that are clearly factually accurate. “Life begins at conception” is not a scientific fact. It is an opinion. To be of the belief that people cannot possibly disagree with your opinion is ridiculous.…

Are you suggesting they keep the flag until institutional racism is no more?

I think the correct advice is:

You and me both, girlfriend!

I think that’s the grossest thing about many of today’s conservatives. They want what’s best for themselves, but what’s worst for everyone else. #ChristianFail. Honestly, I spend so much time praying for forgiveness for wishing they’d all just go straight to hell that it just makes me like them even less (if that’s…

That’s part of it. But there are plenty of middle class white folk who are not fans of any folks of color except maybe that Denzel Washington fella…oh, and Oprah!, that its clearly a race issue. I think it just makes folks feel better to say “see? We’re not really THAT racist!”