Well that sucks. But this interview does further confirm her likeability! Hearty laugh, sensible take on the matter, I think she’s handling it very well and I’d love to have brunch with her.

My lie cost me thousands.

This is totally a thing. We call it compassion fatigue. Without proper self-care and mental health services for first responders and social service workers, compassion fatigue will wreak havoc on their ability to care for others. :(

Sir, you are equivocating on the issue of holding 25 million people hostage. WTF is wrong with you???

He’s not being a tourist. He’s not investigating and reporting back as a non-partisan observer.

“Should everyone stop exploring a country if they disagree with any practice of that country?”

Yeah that’s really not the response I expected! I’m always kind of discourged by the assumption that everyone is or should be on hormonal birth control. For me it caused way more problems than it was worth, and it was the kind where you are only supposed to get a period every 3 months, but it never did work that way…

Okay, I am a little shocked at the number of comments about how Fu Yuanhei should have used hormonal birth control to skip her period for Rio. Lady is an elite athlete who no doubt has tracked her fitness relative to nutrition, medications, rest, etc. for years. Shouldn't we give her the benefit of assuming she knows…

Maybe she’s not on hormonal birth control. It screws with some people, and I can see what would be minor symptoms for a normal person being a challenge for an elite athlete in prime training.

Thank you for acknowledging what I was saying. I would reiterate though, that your definition of “peaceful” is still in a combat zone. And that you don’t actually know what he’s been diagnosed with.

I’m not arguing with you about your characterization of him. I think he’s a fucking violent prick who lends his mother an unearned veneer of patriotism, while also disgracing a uniform I love, that has enough problems of its own.

The bee thing kind of makes me sigh. I keep a couple hives; this is my third year of beekeeping. Even hobbyists consider or sometimes go through with clipping the queen bee’s wings. She might fly twice in her life, though likely only once — her maiden flight, during which she’s inseminated by drones, and then later,…

Seriously. One of the many steps on the road to me giving up vegetarianism (still consider going back at times, though) was the realization that EVERYTHING alive wants to stay that way. We can debate what constitutes “awareness” or “pain”, but some kind or response to stimulus is a basic defining characteristic of…

While I’m certainly willing to examine the ethics of my food choices, I draw the line at feeling sorry for scallops.

They’re tasty and creepy to look at when alive. I am not the picture of scallop empathy.

We do recreational scallop diving in July in Florida, and yeah, they swim away from you. So what. Fish don’t like to be caught either. Cows would run from us if they weren’t domesticated livestock.

I have to say- the caviar argument and also the foie gras seem like problems for a very distinct segment of the population (not me, who makes special trips to the store because Frosted Flakes are buy one get one free and I’m poor as shit)

Okay, sure. But that doesn’t mean there should be a police float and cops marching in uniform.

Queer police officers can be there, they don’t want The Police there. There is a difference. And I really feel like the multiple deaths of black men at the hands of the police in the past few days speaks to exactly why BLM doesn’t want the police celebrated and included at Pride.

There is a difference between the police being there and the police having a float.