This picture gives me the full-bodied icks.

THIS point should be made more often. Too often the “female purity” folks and the “homophobia” folks have mindsets that stem from the same root problem: (1) they have little to no respect for the group of people they find most sexually attractive, (2) they believe everyone else is just like them in terms of…

Agreed that she was (badly) probably trying to make this argument, but “people are stupid, shitty, and not at all taught to control themselves” is kinda the point, right? We’re talking about teenaged boys in school getting distracted by teenaged girls. This is the perfect time to teach boys that even if a girl is…

1000% this. I would bet anything that the Game of Thrones finale was a driving force behind the decision, too. The speculation about Jon Snow alive-or-dead has been so wild, I think they believed they could imitate that frenzy with the “OMG! Who’s dead?!?” reaction.

Dear still killed three, Ke’Arre Stewart, 29, an Iraq War veteran; Jennifer Tarkovsky, 35, a mother there to support a friend; and Garret Swasey, a police officer who had responded to the call.

This. You could throw me back in time anywhere/anywhen and I’d have only the vaguest idea what was going on. I appreciate that she knows some bits and pieces (herbology, field medicine from her time as a nurse during the war, and her particular knowledge of Frank’s family tree) to make things interesting, but doesn’t…

God, I want to work for you. I started practicing yoga overseas, and it's damn near impossible to find the same kind of studio now that I'm back in the States. I'm getting my certification in June, but nervous about finding a school where I can teach the kinds of classes I love.

YOU HAVE TO WIN. I don’t want to live in a world where something grosser than this is possible.

I had food poisioning exactly one time. I puked, I shat, I puked, I shat. Then it was time to puke again, but I was barely done shitting. So I turned to the sink, which is alongside the toilet, stood up, twisted and leaned just enough to aim my projectile vomit into the sink...

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

THIS is what makes me furious. Past 20 weeks, the mother is usually saying goodbye to a wanted pregnancy. Half the time, they’re ending it because the child’s quality of life will be too poor and they don’t want to give birth to a baby who will live a short painful life and then die. So the woman and doctor involved…

Sometimes I think about the fact that humanity is finally ready to solve all of its problems aside from the natural disasters. The smartest person in the world has access to all the knowledge of the entirety of human existence, plus the best technology ever produced. There should be nothing stopping us. But we keep…

You’ve gotten a lot of responses already and might be feeling overwhelmed, but I’ll add mine in case it’s useful (to you or others).

Hi there. Based on your comment history, I don’t think we’ll see eye to eye on much, but I’d like to offer some responses just in case any of them provide the insight you’re asking for. I don’t know what will stick and what won’t, so I apologize for the length of my response. Here goes:

So, I think I understand what your objection is. Here’s what I’m getting from your comments in this thread:

Nah, you had that joke all wrapped up. Your delivery was smooth as silk.

I have been feeling this way for a while. When you look at the inside of Trump’s house, it looks the way I imagine every dictator’s mansion would look if he had Trump’s money and access to modern Western goods. His aesthetic taste, in other words, is nothing but an outward display of success and power. Gold…

Oh, a subset of them are absolutely sick and evil. 100% correct. But I think there are pockets who are fine with the “good” members of a minority group so long as they stay in their lane. You can see it in the way they cheer for a black man who punches a white protestor; so long as the black guy is upholding the…

Trump’s influence works because he appeals to people who are authoritarian - who feel like their entire society is at risk of falling apart at the seams. People who respond to Trump’s rhetoric are people who react to change by looking for a strong leader who can protect the rules and systems they’re used to. The more…

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