This isn’t even about the word being gender-neutral. It’s literally named after someone with the last name Man.

It’s possible that’s advice given because a taser isn’t a non-lethal weapon; it’s just less lethal. They may be discouraged from casually tazing those who are more likely to have a heart condition......... so it’s safer to just shoot them in the chest?

As I said up-thread, don’t confuse ideas with ideals. We can have different ideas and argue about them vociferously, but if we have similar values we can respect where those differences come from. If our values and ideals are incompatible, then there’s less room for compromise.

Don’t confuse political beliefs for values. We can disagree on the means to accomplish a goal and get along, but if our goals are opposite, then we’re going to have issues.

Uh. No. She hasn’t. She actually railed against it as being a pipe dream when the ACA was being pushed through and tried to use it as a stick against Bernie Sanders during the primary. She may have been for it once, but she’s been an opponent for years. But I’m sure the donations to her coffers had nothing...nothing…

She’s not as bad, no. He’s patently unqualified to run for any office. She’s hugely qualified, but she’s on the wrong side of the issues.

Edit: [Good lord, I didn’t intend to write all this, but it happened anyway. The “Too Long; Won’t Read” summary? I’d take The Force Awaken’s finale over all the duels in the prequels combined, hands down.]

A fourteen year old who allegedly had a gun. Don’t you know? Cops never shoot unarmed people; they always find a gun on...or near...or somewhere in the vicinity of them. And if they survive and claim they weren’t armed, well you can be sure that’s just the sort of lie some gun-toting thug would tell.

With all of the absurd investigations in the past 12 months alone, don’t you think they’ve already been trying? If they had even the slightest thing they could make stick, they’d have thrown Hillary in jail ages ago.

Why wouldn’t it? Did he switch parties? In this election cycle Hillary couldn’t hiccough without the media having a field day over it.

Isn’t that the point? I mean...really. Would a people who could read or think critically have elected the sort of people who instituted NCLB? If the country were full of critical thinkers, would this election season look anything like what it does?

While I can’t compete on the film’s content, when I was just at the tail end of middle school I saw Good Will Hunting. Which would have been mostly fine...except for two things.

That’s so true! Only the police are apparently endowed with the right to injure, loot, and put the safety of others at risk!

In the lead up to the second Iraq war, I was in one when the switch was flipped. I actually saw the moment that did it. One of the police who was slowly riding along on a small motorcycle beside the marchers decided to wheelie onto the guy from behind and take him down. The victim had been walking peacefully along…

Because a true liberal would be willing to vote for a conservative?

There were times where it felt like the writers were doing an imitation of a cut-rate magician making the marbles disappear by throwing them over his shoulder and trying to distract the audience with jazz-hands.

There’ll be a hot take in the old comment thread tonight.

You’ve made the same mistake as those who suggest what the Democratic party needs is a grass roots movement in the form of a liberal tea party. They forget that there was nothing “grass roots” about the tea party; they forget that it was funded and engineered entirely by the party’s wealthy donors.

What message do we send by enthusiastically lining up behind a butt that we largely disagree with? There’s no box on the ballot to differentiate between “I would take a bullet for this candidate” and “I don’t trust you as far as I could throw Chris Christie, but the damage you will cause isn’t quuuiiittee as long-term…

If I had a nickle for every time I heard someone say “This election is not the time to exact change” or “This is the most important election in our lifetime”, I could afford to run for president myself and have enough left over to buy half the seats in congress.