This op-ed was beneath Garrison Keillor. I am a fan, but found Keillor's article shameful. Basically he is scraping of the bowels of his own hatred.

Glad you said this. It was hard to take this seriously, as if Trump has been pining away for the respect of the intellectual elite. Where's the evidence for that? I found this piece ridiculously pompous and mean spirited. Unbecoming of Keillor, of whom I am usually a fan. The AV Club comments section is…

Completely ignored the Bowl Cut. The 1990s must-have for the adolescent Midwestern white male.

You won't simian these threads posting.

He is a brilliant comedian, great on Mr. Show & AD. But his standup is a stale, boring slog. Like a Slate article that thinks it's funny.

I appreciate the discussion. I respectfully disagree with you. As our technology advances and our scientific understanding of fetal development and viability improves, it will harder and harder for abortion advocates to hide behind their tired arguments. I think you are on the wrong side of history. (I'll let you…

I disagree (about leaving Homer and about Bob-Waksburg's premise). Marge always struck me as the "alone but not lonely" type. She seems satisfied mostly and the best adjusted character on the show. In many ways, I think she finds pleasure and purpose in caring for Homer and the kids. This line of tweets definitely…

"We're pretty happy tbh." —Iran

Fewer and fewer voices on the left are advocating for reasonable restrictions on abortions. Pro-lifers no longer have a place in the Democratic Party. Even Hillary's position has "evolved" from "safe, legal, and rare" to "safe and legal." Btw, I haven't "demonized" anyone. I am merely suggesting a political…

One of the all-time best album openers.

This movie is awful. What made Ghostbusters popular is that it was an action movie for kids, not a political statement. The press lead up to the premiere, the critics forcing themselves to write glowing reviews…nothing short of the Invisible Hand of the free market could make Sony realize the emperor has no clothes.

The logical fallacy referees would be throwing lots of flags on this comment (false equivalence, red herring, ad hominem). You're not going to hear a defense of murder of Black Americans by the police from me! And you haven't explained how putting reasonable restrictions on abortions is the same as, well, state…

(1) Bodily autonomy is not nearly as clear as you believe it is. You can't legally sell your organs. You can't legally sell your body for sex. We restrict the type of substances you are allowed to legally inject/ingest into your body. There are a multitude of restrictions on what someone does with their bodies.
(2)…

Ok. Replace "baby" with "viable fetus". My point still stands.

Shouldn't a just society protect its vulnerable members? Even if those members can't protect themselves? Should the cost of care for a preemie result in a death sentence? Should other vulnerable human beings be killed because their lives are costly (like the elderly, the mentally impaired, the developmentally…

What of the bodily integrity of the child? It is not a "person" legally, but it's not a separate organism? It's not a distinct human being? The argument of bodily integrity is not nearly as clear as you think.
I appreciate the respectful discussion. I won't pretend to persuade you. I'll just leave with this: All…

Of course there is an emerging distinction between fetus and baby, baby and toddler, etc. through adulthood. Maybe there is not a hard and fast rule when a fetus becomes a baby. But you do not deny that a baby exists at some point. A 40-week fetus is merely a fetus still? A matter of semantics? Of course not. …

Well, if we have to conduct some sort of calculus, I guess I'd say a human life is more valuable than (at that point) 17 weeks of discomfort. The 23 week deadline is not perfect. Most pro-lifers would say it is immoral. But I am trying to find a middle ground that everyone can accept. What strikes me is that…

I think the unblinking orthodoxy of the pro-choice movement needs to be challenged. The rhetoric of "my body, my choice" obscures the complexity of this issue. Abortion on demand without limit is untenable from a scientific and ethical perspective. Even secular Western Europe has enacted abortion restrictions that…

This just seems like closed-minded orthodoxy to me. Clearly there is a difference between a 2 day old fetus and a 40-week unborn child. My point is with scientific advancements (both in prenatal observation and post-natal care for preemies), the line between person entitled to rights and appendage of another person…