It also means that women who need affordable health care in a number of related fields (sexual health and counselling facilities for example) won’t have access anymore.

Just like in the other article I read about this yesterday, everyone is conveniently cutting out the part of her quote just after the I’M NOT RACIST part where she says something to the effect of “I fucked up really badly and I’m not going to offer a lame excuse.”

I used to live in Japan,. where the normal, polite way to get the waitstaff’s attention is to yell “EXCUSE ME” across the restaurant.

She clearly fucked up. Everyone knows it. We all know it. She knows it. She was trying to do a good thing and accidentally exposed her own unexamined racism. Then she admitted it without excuses. I’m not sure how an unreservedly frank admission of guilt is feeble. It’s exactly what we should be seeing from people when…

Stock image. Right. Makes sense now.

I spent at least 7 seconds trying to parse that as anything that could be called a sentence. Then I gave up.

Ah. That plus “Texas” just made this whole thing make more sense.

Fuck. Yes. This right here.

I used to play bass for CYBERPUNK MEGACORP DYSTOPIA.

Look, mate. I’m going to get my time fighting tattoo-covered dog people on a bouncing platform suspended a kilometre above the ground. I even bought a hawaiian shirt specifically for the occasion. So help me, it will happen.

Look, they misunderstood. He didn’t call ALL MEXICANS rapists and murderers, he just called MEXICANS rapists and murderers.

Or you could just stop doubling down and say “Yeah, that was kinda in poor taste. Sorry, my bad.”

I liked Oliver’s piece on guns in Australia. It was pretty damn good.

Who let Deviantart leak into the real world? This is an outrage!

You SAY serious question, but I’m pretty sure that’s actually part of the joke.

Nutshell.

It’s a terrible thing, but time has past and that changes things. Polanski is a piece of shit, but his single offense was a long time ago and people have a way of putting bad things that happened to other people in the past to the back of their minds.

It doesn’t punish him in any real sense and it lowers the percieved value of the award for the future. There are plenty of more effective ways to punish the man that actually do some social good. This is an empty gesture that doesn’t really help anyone and takes attention away from the fact that here is an admitted…

I’m happy to say that it’s totally real. Edith Garrud trained a group of women to be bodyguards for suffragettes who were being constantly arrested for campaigning. They were urban guerilla fighters.

I’ve never read one of his books and the more I know about him, the less inclined I am to try.