The first guy to take a knee during the National Anthem was a trailblazer (or, if you prefer, a martyr for a cause.) The small number of people who who first followed that guy’s lead are the types who don’t like to see one person take all the flak from society for not conforming to a social tradition. The growing…

Good catch! Thank you. For whatever trite reason, that was bugging me.

Okay — have there been 66 or 68 hurricanes since Wilma hit Florida? I must know the answer to this!

There must be a mental illness that covers a propensity to sue people and declare bankruptcy.

She’s just acting like any political candidate who uses current events to promote their political platform. Based on all of your comments in this post, I’d say that you are not at all fond of the hippie lady. She’s for peace and universal healthcare, man — lighten up!

That doesn’t seem like a fair assessment of what Stein’s take is on zoos. She’s saying that it’s fundamentally wrong to keep animals in captivity for the sake of our entertainment. I don’t see where she mentioned anything about “rampant abuse” in zoos.

There was an FBI into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server in her basement, but no charges were filed. I’m afraid that I was one of those people who found it suspicious when one of Clinton’s associates pleaded the 5th (albeit not to the FBI). Given the FBI Director’s statements about the FBI investigation…

The FBI investigates cyber crime, which ties into the SAT case because of “alleged computer intrusion and theft against an unidentified “victim corporation” involving “confidential or proprietary information,” including tests, test forms and internal emails, according to a search warrant issued in the case.”

Actually, thanks to Iowa Senator Charles Grassley, members of Congress do have to get their health insurance through the ACA’s marketplaces. However, Obama and members of his administration still can get health insurance coverage through their employer.

Ah, I missed that part. Thank you for the gentle correction.

Why is Burk an ass if he’s simply following the honor code by ratting out his fellow cadets?

It’s not like restating that ISIS are a bunch of despicable murderous psychopaths is going to help the women who were their sex slaves any more that “hijacking” a thread for one’s own personal amusement. If you ask me it’s a testament to just how horrible this story is that we have to speak about it in such a detached…

Oppression is relative, and it is oppressive by Western standards to have Christians use the legal system to dictate women’s options over their own health care. No one is saying that the oppressiveness is equivalent to what the sex slaves are suffering under ISIS.

If a person is old enough to sign up for our military service, then that person ought to be considered old enough to vote. What magic age do you think people reach when they stop making bad judgments?

I did the best I could to explain myself, but you insist on being offended. Game over on that one, I guess.

No, I still don’t know what you mean. My comment wasn’t intended to offend. I made the comment about White Evangelicals being one the the leading demographics of support for Ted Cruz based on this Washington Post article. Home-schooling is fairly popular among Evangelicals who don’t want their kids “mixing” with…

WTF does that mean?! Seriously, did you just have a mini-stroke?

I don’t picture Ted Cruz’s support base of White Evangelicals getting down & dirty in the comments section of a Gawker Media site. They’re too busy home-schoolin’ their children.

As far as vacuous campaign promises go, I really like that one!

Looking at a news site’s timeline of the narrative spun around the Sept. 11, 2012 Benghazi attacks, Hillary Clinton said in a call to then Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Qandil,