Yeah, I agree that “defiant” was not the right word. Really the issue is that I’m not white and in America, that screws me at every level — “do you speak English?” “How do I pronounce this?” I love my name. It’s my name. I wouldn’t be me without that name. But do I want a kid to have to deal with the same bullshit I…

Because this thread made my fiancé and I talk about children’s last names (I’m not changing mine, it’s never been on the table) . . . regardless of whether something is the “truly equal” thing to do, we are genuinely conflicted because MY last name has six syllables and HIS last name has five. Feminism aside, it seems…

Do you have Tim Tams over there? I thought they were just Australian.

From what I’ve read, and I do a pretty substantial amount of trafficking work at work (though admittedly it deals more with labor than sex trafficking), the jury is still out on the issue of the relationship between legal/decriminalized prostitution in a country and the risk of that country being a bigger destination…

I read it as “winner.” That seemed a lot more characteristic.

Dude totally deserves to be laughed at, especially if he doesn’t know the difference between Manhattan and Brooklyn.

Unpopular opinion that I’ve een thinking about voicing on this article for a while: maybe, do think about saying it, just once, to somebody that you know, in case nobody else has said it yet?

YES, this. I spent yesterday morning reading the whole transcript of the conversation because why not. She thinks she’s talking to other medical professionals, not trained monkey actors. And the trained monkey actors give JUST as good as they get. It’s absurd the way they cut the 8 min. short (I watched that too…

Yeah, that’s why I kept my comment gender-neutral.

That’s kind of what I’ve always loved about her though — her slightly bizarre incoherence with flashes of brilliance interspersed?

I wish I could give you more stars.

He is a troll, but I agree with you and also add that implicit bias in the criminal justice system extends beyond the initial period of arrest.

Well, I think you’re right in that there’s something to be said about the relationship between homophobia and jokes about prison rape—there’s some kind of correlation there, though I don’t know that the correlation seems to be what you are implying it is.

If you put together the statistics relating to punishment for minor infractions in our school system (you know, like having a cell phone out) leading to greater likelihood of encountering the juvenile justice system (multi-fold), with the likelihood of entering the adult criminal justice system once you have a…

This is unrelated to the article at all, but I do want to say....I LOVE Pictorial. I love your work.

But are we affirmatively intended to read Go Set a Watchman as a SEQUEL to TKaM? The Post review I read seemed to indicate that even the Tom Robinson case is differently described, which makes me wonder whether we’re simply supposed to appreciate them as two different stories set in two different universe with the…

This. This is glorious. This made my Saturday better.

I only just realized when I was looking at our venue contract (which we signed six months ago) that they specify very clearly that they expect us to hire one babysitter for every eight children under ten. Hindu ceremony in the morning, Christian ceremony in the afternoon, we’ll be going all day . . . and we have LOTS…

Admittedly I was responding to what was obviously intended to be rhetoric, and in my response to your response I was correcting your statement of what the law objectively does and doesn’t care about. I understood your first response — which I reiterate I wholly agree with on a philosophical basis — as BEING a…

I agree with the principle of the thing, but my point was simply a response to your question of “WHO CARES whether a foetus has personhood or not.” Legally speaking, if somebody was to DIE, then it follows that they must at some point have been ALIVE, regardless of whether they happened to be living inside somebody…