Lumping together Federal, State, SS & Medicaire, I think that might be possible (depending mostly on what state/city you live in). Last year I was at almost a 25% effective tax rate for those four combined and I was making $95k gross in Illinois.

I don't necessarily disagree with you, but I also think you could easily argue in the vast majority of male on female rapes (which make up the majority of rapes) the women would probably not have been targeted if they were instead a men. I have never really understood how hate crime legislation is supposed to work…

Yes??? I’m pretty comfortable saying that rapists who rape women hate women. That doesn’t seem like much of a reach. It may not be the only motivation, but I'm pretty certain it's a factor at play.

I don't know, they all got real quiet for a second after he slammed her to the ground, so I think they were fairly startled by his actions. Pre-teens/young teens are masters of the giggle to relieve stress in uncomfortable situations.

See my comment to Jia. I think there are valid criticisms of this poem, I'm just uncomfortable with people taking it literally while criticizing it. Your point it very valid and I don't disagree with it.

Yeah, that’s a valid critique. I don't think it's a particularly great or novel poem. I mean it's basically a white male writer Columbusing Columbusing, which is... yike. I’ve just seen a fair amount of people (on the internet, so you know, grain of salt, etc.) taking it straight, which is giving me second hand…

I normally feel like "but it's satire" is an overused defense of bad writers, but in this case I'm pretty damn sure that poem is satirizing western foodies Columbusing “exotic food” for cultural capital. It’s not exactly subtle either: “Then respect was a fraction of meager / For those who'd not eaten Uighur" and…

I normally enjoy reading Angry Asian Man, but I don't feel like he understood who the butt of the joke of that poem is supposed to be. When I first read that poem I was 95% certain it was mocking the practice of white urbanites/hipster/foodie types Columbusing ethnic cuisines to feel culturally superior. I feel like…

“Ugly” in art doesn’t necessarily mean it’s something you don’t want to look at it. Plenty of things are ugly but interesting/eye catching. I’d have a lot more respect for these student protestors if the stated reason for the protest was that they wanted a more cheerful feeling sculpture instead or that they wanted…

Yeah, I worked in a field that is lawyer adjacent for a little more than 2 years and picked up a fair amount of general knowledge on American corporate law. I cannot fathom how a reasonably intelligent person could work in the United States Congress for 20+ years and not know the answer to some of these questions.

This is the only correct answer. Toilets have lids for a reason!

Lol @ the manbaby commenters already whining, “If I care too much about her orgasm, I’m the bad guy. If I care too little about her orgasm I’m the bad guy. Waaaaaaaaa!” This shit isn't rocket science, guys. If you know your partner usually orgasms during sex, then you should make sure you're making an effort to help…

She probably has eyelash extensions, but yeah it is unlikely that she had literally just woken up.

I know right? I consider myself pretty neutral on him generally, but that response is hilariously adorable.

I feel like if you are casting a play/musical based on the life of a dead white dudes and don’t specifically advertise that you are looking for non-white actors, you are not going to get many non-white actors applying for roles. Like 99 times out of a hundred a casting call for George Washington is not going to be…

See this shit is aimed at me. I don't think I've spent less than $3k on clothing since I started working. I have a bad habit of buying an "investment piece", wearing it for a year, going into a manic organizing purge, and then donating it to Goodwill.

No, the problem is Bloom is over-dramatizing his idea in order to generate more interest. Because “empathy is bad” is a more shocking headline/article title than “empathy in the absence of critical thinking and self-awareness can be bad”. His argument is not that empathy is fundamentally bad, it's that relying solely…

Very few people want to bring it up, but Europe doesn’t to increase security measures against new immigrants, they need a time machine to go back and prevent the creation of the banlieues/cités (or whatever they are referred to as outside of France). The threat they are currently facing is not coming from new or…

Yes, the restriction on caffeine and specific produce (?!?!) is what weirded me out the most. THOSE THINGS AREN'T BAD FOR YOU!!!

He should have been publicly removed/fired and not ever gotten the chance to resign. This is not some middle-manager, this is the CEO. CEOs are the public face of their organizations, and part of the job of CEO is to avoid alienating the public. When a CEO makes a comment that alienates more than half the population…