I’m not a lawyer, but I teach a class on LGBTQ public policy and we had several lawyers in as guest speakers to describe the pillar of cases supporting Lawrence v. Texas, US v. Windsor, and Obergefell v. Hodges (we also read those decisions alongside several others). They (and we) drew the opposite conclusion from…

Roberts dissented in Obergefell and argued that marriage has a universal historical definition of one man and one woman across all societies and history. The fact that he can make that argument and not be laughed off the bench for making up history from whole cloth is why we should always be wary of letting the courts…

While it’s true that the right to equal treatment could be invoked to uphold marriage equality, it’s also true that the Obergefell and Windsor decisions stand on the precedents of a pillar of cases that depend largely on the logic of Roe; Obergefell especially wasn’t argued as an equal protection case but a privacy…

Cue “fiscal responsibility” folks on Facebook blaming liberals for claiming that $42,000 (1999 median nominal income) is equal to $61,000 (2018 median nominal income). They’ll probably also say something about how “you can make statistics say whatever you want” while citing statistics from their favorite blogs that…

“Middle-class income surpasses $61,000 for the first time“ is a way more positive headline than “1.8% growth in real middle-class incomes since 2000.”

Government, if you’re listening, I’m offering to write the propaganda that justifies these curtains.

My novel will focus on a UN Ambassador who is forced to buy curtains from some bargain-bin gutter place that only peasants shop at (like Restoration Hardware) due to budget constraints. Her curtain motor doesn’t even…

Given that the elected sheriff in Butler County, Ohio essentially ordered his deputies to let people die of overdoses rather than try to save them, the rest of his career may be unfortunately long and storied. :\

I am so glad the title wasn’t an accident (my mind immediately went to the Blur song). I think BlaqkAudio did the song better, not the least of which because Davey Havok is pretty fluid in gender presentation, so here are both!

Funny how the commenters at Brietbart say the economy can cause people to experience poverty when so many of their articles explicitly endorse the view that poverty is an individual failure.

I have found that Socratic questioning of people like that on Facebook very quickly turns into a dogpile of people attacking you for not having common sense, being a Communist-Fascist-Marxist-Muslim-Atheist, probably one of “the queers,” and not minding your own business.

Good point! I meant the culture of policing in the US specifically, but didn’t clarify.

Yeah, the police unions alone will never allow meaningful change. To my understanding, many unions are pushing for even less training and preparation before putting officers on the streets. The culture of policing is, and always has been, fundamentally broken.

What’s amazing is the pause before she says “black females” every time, like there’s some part of her brain trying to awaken and say “Maybe this is racist and these are thoughts you examine and overcome rather than putting them on the Internet.”

My most-offended college students have all been conservative so far. For some reason, the liberal students seem more willing to discuss with me when something doesn’t sit well with them, and we tend to work through it.

The real injustice of the Holocaust was that the Germans refused to pay 10 million ethnic and sexual minority comedians to continue making mediocre sitcoms, leaving them with still-outlandish sums of money for their past work that just wasn’t as much money as they would like.

When the moment happened in the theater (and it is currently at the top of my list for “coolest thing I’ve ever seen in a move”), it seemed like every single person in the packed theater knew it was intentional. It legitimately brought tears to my eyes; it felt so important, emphatic, and meaningful.

You legit quoted someone saying, “We’re not saying blacks should stay home..., we’re explaining why it happens,” interpreted that to be advocating black abstention, and built an argument on it. You’re either not listening or your reading comprehension is in need of work.

Imagine being the kind of person who types that shit, reads it, and thinks, “Yeah, that will win them over.” As a white person, even I can see the caucacity!

He probably never wears garments of mixed threads, either. Otherwise he may be in violation of his religion (Leviticus 19:19).

Civil Rights and nondiscrimination laws that apply to public accommodations don’t apply to private clubs, so wouldn’t the solution here be that companies like Masterpiece Cakeshop become private clubs?