Well, we can have a disagreement about the facts, but you’d also be disagreeing with the Human Rights Campaign, which isn’t interested in underestimating the challenges facing LGBTQ folks. According to them, 2017 was the most violent recent year for trans people in the U.S. (29 killed), but that rate, assuming the…

I’m very happy for him (and a fan of his acting since Juno) and all transgender people who are able move forward in their own journeys. I do hate that transgendered people might be more afraid of having violence perpetrated against them than the facts suggest. The trans murder rate is lower than the average and most…

Well, I can’t say that would be completely surprising.

I suppose my main gripe with your post is the word “unquestionably.” It’s hard to predict such things. Zappa appreciated, above all, competency and honesty. And he was explicitly anti-authoritarian and pro-immigration. He was (in my opinion) far more naturally intelligent and curious than either Cube or Lydon.

...how he doesn’t have any opinions on politics, and neither should you.

What did he ever write or say that would lead you to that utterly ridiculous conclusion?

All this said, if there were any evidence at all that humans (not sheep or mice) had been harmed by vaping (voluntarily, without being forced unnaturally excessive amounts by researchers), I would absolutely re-evaluate my confidence. But since all available evidence suggests vaping to be at least 95% safer than…

The WHO link provides no evidence only suspicions long disproven.

All of those hospitalizations involved people vaping illicit THC cartridges. Millions of people have been vaping nicotine for over a decade, and there is zero evidence that vaping has caused serious (or any, really) physiological harm, and lots and lots of evidence that it’s an effective smoking cessation tool. The…

It really is fine. It’s better than fine. It’s between 95-99% safer than smoking and has helped millions quit smoking and saved many lives. And I don’t even vape! (I just recently wrote a research paper and discovered how vapes work as effective tobacco harm reduction tools.)

Right now the unemployment rate is just under 7%, less than it was 10 years ago. It was 10% in the early 80's, and 25% at the height of the Great Depression. It is a scary time, but there are a lot of good people out there working hard to improve things. We’ll get through it. Do something good for someone and then…

It’s because I watch South Park that I’m skeptical of it being “very clearly homophobic.” I mean, Big Gay Al, Mr. Garrison, and Mr. Slave are not hinting at being gay. For me, “very clearly homophobic” is a phrase that I think is best used to describe people who oppose equal rights for LGBTQ folks and/or think there’s…

A sassy, cartoonishly silly fella? As has been pointed out, there are plenty of straight guys who speak like that. Well, not quite like that, as it’s obviously an over-the-top, cartoonish, and absurd video. I mean, it’s a silly, sassy voice, based on previous “Sassy Trump” videos that were also just a kind of comedic…

How, exactly are they “very clearly being homophobic” if there’s no reference or even a suggestion that the character is gay?

I might have missed the part where the character identifies as gay, but if he doesn’t, why do you assume the character is gay?

But we never respect kids’ time. We force them to spend most of their time doing pointless schoolwork, and then we judge and reward or punish them based on their performance of mostly useless busy work. Why shouldn’t they try to squeeze in a little more time to do what they want, since most of it is taken from them by…

It’s always fascinating to see parents freak out over small gestures of courtesy and respect towards children. There is always expressed an explicitly less-than-human opinion of their own kids. It’s a big part of why kids have no real agency in their lives and are required to perform throughout the day, mostly in order…