Oh sorry, I just woke up. I wasn't talking about you specifically in any of it, I liked your post a lot. It just made me think about how some people use privilege to discount things people say, and how some people are constantly trying to prove that they have less privilege than other people.

Very interesting read, thanks. Why is it necessary to even say this though? I understand how it can be useful to self-examine and think about how certain privileges may have effected your life, but once people start arguing about who is more or less privileged, with the goal to discount their feelings or experiences…

Okay, yeah, good point. Maybe you could have it automatically donated to a charity or something.

As Zimmerman doesn't have any money, they would have to garnish his wages. If I was the family, I don't think I would want the biweekly reminder that my child's murderer got away with just paying a few dollars a month.

No thanks. I'm getting married in August, only inviting 30 people. Doing it in our house, whole thing costing maybe $1000. All the money we save we're spending on redoing our kitchen :-)

Not sure if you've played Mass Effect, but the female Shepard doesn't wear revealing or even that form fitting clothes. She wears tactical armor and space suits.

Why rapists in particular? The right comparison is to say they don't do it to male criminals.

Woah that's awesome.

True, everyone knows that Hitler was a feminist.

The wearing one pair of pants for a week straight gap.

For realz. I am getting married in August and we are doing it in our house. Got a case of champagne, making a big thing of sangria and getting food catered from Whole Foods. Whole thing is like $1000.

Have a kid, don't have a kid, whatever it's your business. Those reasons, however, are mostly BS.

Really confused by that quote. Under normal net worth calculations, if you are worth $8500 then that is including the negative amount from your loans. That means you actually could pay off your loans if you liquidated some of your assets. I'm sure there are a lot of people who are FAR FAR from that, i.e.…

Okay, I am all for socialized medicine and whatnot, government helping out where it is appropriate, but why do they just flat out give you money for having kids? That money is coming directly from people who choose not to have children into the pockets of people who do. Why should you be punished for making the…

Gotcha. Don't they fortify cereal with iron? I eat a lot of cereal...

Non-vegan probably. Eggs and cheese both have a lot of B12.

It is carefully plotting your doom, of course. Unfortunately there is only so much you can do when you are 1/10 the size of your intended victim and your brain is the size of a walnut.

If you have an iphone, double tap the home button and then swipe to the left. There is a little rotate button there that will lock the orientation for you so it doesn't change when you turn your phone.

I don't agree with Rick Perry on probably anything, but it is stupid to say that because he is pro-life he is being a hypocrite with the death penalty. Because I am pro-choice am I a hypocrite for wanting to remove the ability to give the death penalty from the courts? Of course not. It is not self contradictory to…

Seems to me like there is a kind of "patriot act" thing going on right now where people see "SCOTUS Overturns Voting Rights Act" and they are all, "WTF supreme court hates minorities."