You’re correct, but in fairness we also need to acknowledge that pretty much everyone up there besides Warren, Sanders and Buttigieg is running the exact same hustle. They’re up there to make their pitch for being a CNN color commentator as backup in case their eventual run for a Senate, House or gubernatorial seat…

More power to her, then. She’s not the first and won’t be the last. If anything, she can bring eyes to serious issues that career politicians are too terrified to touch.

We have Uncle Bernie now Aunt Marianne. She is like the kooky aunt you have who has a grown daughter from a short marriage who she is always sort of at odds with. Is attractive and lives by herself but is always traveling and always has  Lou with her ,the guy she has been dating for 15 years, when she shows up for a…

I’m convinced the man is an anarchist. Only an anarchist could suck that hard at being both a democrat and republican.

Imagine living the irony of being so against socialism, but also being so publicly owned.

He’s a purist. Unlike some people who defend rapists because they want money, he defends rapists because he feels very strongly that rape is just a-ok.

“And please let me back into Martha’s Vineyard!”

1. If the current testing is problematic because the “average male” is no longer average, why are the death rates so much higher for women? Shouldn’t current women be closer to the then “average male?” Either the assumption that women’s bodies are effectively no different from men’s for purposes of these tests is…

the largest risk category is actually males over the average 1950s male (pretty much everyone).

Even if they wanted to use a larger female dummy, it just doesn’t exist

As someone who works in the auto industry, this is terribly mis-informed. First of all, you absolutely can’t make the car perfectly safe for the entire range of human body types.

They don’t have to optimize for the test only. They have the option of satisfying the test for the dummy size specified by the NHTSA *as well as* other body types. That costs extra money, so they don’t. Until we find a way to assign value to doing the right thing in this country (as opposed to making the most money),…

Things seemed normal... but at the same time they didn’t. Like everything seemed peaceful and quiet and friendly, until a parade of Nazis went by brutally assaulting everyone who didn’t give the Hitler salute while the police watched. Or until someone was dragged out of their home by the Secret Police because they…

Yes, and just about every bit of ‘general population’ research is geared toward men. there was a good article about this issue (and more) in the Guardian a while ago: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/feb/23/truth-world-built-for-men-car-crashes

If any of that is to happen - and keep in mind, this is not at all me playing Pollyanna here, it’s very obvious what Trump wants and is trying to do - he’d have to first gain control of the media. It’s impossible for him to present moves like that as necessary and proper when there’s an entire 24-hour news apparatus…

If anyone is looking for hope in the middle of all this, I will say that I recently read ‘In the Garden of Beasts’, a memoir of 1930s Germany, and there is one important difference. When Hitler made speeches like this, the next day nobody dared to criticize them. State surveillance combined with control of the media…

When has sex ever lost a popularity contest? 

What, Phyllis Schlafly wasn’t available?

Thanks for explaining that to me. I’m obviously too stupid to understand how the justice system works.

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