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Amber Wolf for SCOTUS

When you sit in a court of law day in and day out, it’s easy to forget that your litigants are human beings with lives outside of the justice system. Good on Judge Wolf for not forgetting and for not being afraid to sometimes let common sense prevail over the black letter law. She is a credit to the bar.

I’m beginning to understand why countries break apart and civil wars happen, because I really, really don’t want to live in the same country as these people.

When decades of “government is the problem” rhetoric, combined with virulent anti-intellectualism, combined with worship of business enterprise above social good, combined with continual stoking of racist, sexist, xenophobic fear and hatred all finally coalesce into the puffed-up tangerine spectre of Donald Trump—the…

the GOP let the horse out of the barn a long time ago but only now is closing the doors. Except it wasn’t really a horse, but a mangy goat covered in rotten marmalade who thinks he’s a unicorn.

Exactly. The government should talk about it. You and I? It doesn’t really matter what we talk about.

It’s a way for people to cop out of difficult conversations. Very common in Facebook: “stop politicizing a tragedy" etc.

I mean....we all know she killed her child. (RIP Caylee.) This is not a shock to me. She committed the crime, she just didn’t go to jail for it. And the sexual favors don’t seem too far fetched for me to believe. She seemed sick and twisted, and I could see something like this being part of her behavior.

You know what inspires rage? The fact that we deliberately load the plane in the least efficient way humanly possible. Which means people clusters up on the walkway, having to climb over people to get to their seats, having to have other people move out into the isle, ect. It's a nightmare, and there is such an easy…

Your answer is informative, helpful, and non-judgmental. I hate it and I hate you, too.

I’m from Kentucky too and can say that many more moderate Republicans are more liberal than a Kentucky Democrat. Most of them are anti-choice, pro-gun, anti-immigration, etc. Until the Tea Party made “bat-shit crazy” part of the GOP platform, I’d say there was almost no difference. And Kentucky is a state where a lot…

Conway was the lesser of two evils, but unfortunately he didn’t seem to mobilize much of anyone. It’s a sad day for Kentucky.

I live in Kentucky and am devastated over this. Jack Conway is pretty terrible for a Democrat but still would have been the lesser evil. My husband and I just found out our oldest son is autistic, and we have been talking about moving out of state for a while. Now seems like a good time. I grew up in Ohio, and we had…

There is little on the internet that has resonated with me as much as the paragraph about being an atheist, and knowing ghosts don’t exist, yet at times still feeling that they do because imagination is real.

I work in a school, and last year we had active shooter training. They stressed the fact that we were to get the kids and get out if we could.The old idea that people should hide in place only gets people killed. If you can, run away! At Columbine, the shooters walked through the library, and everyone in there was…

This article definitely has some good information; but my heart is heavy and leaden with the thought that I live in a world where it’s necessary. Fire, earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados? All fairly unpredictable forces of nature outside our control...I don’t know if it can be said for the Active Shooter. It is an…

This is appalling. Fires can happen by accident. Tornadoes are outside of our control. We are not at war with any government that can effectively strike us on our soil. But here we are essentially accepting the likelihood of mass shootings by preparing for them.

Yeah, and that made sense in 1789, when the strongest a military could be is an army of a few thousand men, unarmored, firing slow-loading muskets that had terrible aim. There were no automatic weapons, or planes, or bombs, or rockets, or grenades, or tanks, or night-vision goggles, or nuclear weapons. It also made…

It depends on what you mean by “smart”. They were certainly gifted thinkers but they were also unmistakably men of their time. Just about any modern Med school student probably knows more than the smartest Doctor of the 18th century about curing disease. Likewise, we know a ton of shit about governing that they…