The way she worded that statement was strange. I don’t know what “personhood” means here to her. But she is absolutely right that Europeans’ enslavement of Africans was exceptional. Meaning, it was worse than any other form of slavery that we know about. We need to stop pretending that this was just the European…

I think what she was trying to say (it’s tough in 140 characters!) wasn’t that other countries haven’t practiced slavery, it’s that European slavery of Africans was historically different because it established them as chattel, encouraged them to have children (who’d also be slaves), etc. — In other words, it was…

I wasn’t aware that ‘Having a black person living in the building’ was a chargeable service. To be fair it does seem a bit prices for that, if they’re paying it on top of their rent.

The other two things I did a lot of:

“We’re not paying that much money to have black people live in the building.” If it’s white tenants only, it’s clean. I know it’s a little bit racist...

Great news. I feel like he had no choice. The Times, with their amazing effort on this series of pieces, essentially came out and said NYC is full of sweat shops masquerading as nail salons. Pretty damning stuff. Kudos to the journalists.

It really is a spectacularly dumb criticism from Dowd. Almost every single person who runs for office, regardless of party or gender, tries to paint themselves as being family oriented. To single out Hillary for doing it is just typically Dowdian idiocy.

Obama also spoke about the constant criticism she’s received for not having “bold” enough platforms

pretty sure there is a sign about putting your stuff on the seats, though it may be too subtle for the above mouthbreathers to fully grasp.

Tell her to do a bit of research and go in again armed with some papers. Plenty of studies have categorically debunked the myth that having an IUD increases your chance of developing pelvic inflammatory disease from an STI (which is where the “high risk of infection” bullshit the doctor is spouting is coming from).…

I need more caffeine. I thought that was a new type of Q-Tip holder.

God I get such a kick out of all you fuckers getting your panties in such a twist then dismissing you.

Slutty kids lead to slutty adults and that is something I can get behind. Or under.

Today, my friend who is 24 and unmarried but with a very serious boyfriend (doesn’t matter but whatever) went to her gynecologist to look into getting an IUD. Her doctor told her that they did not give the IUD to people unless they were married because there is “such a high risk of infection” as in STDs. My friend…

It’s like you people around here WANT our kids to be whores or something.

Dan Savage did a fantastic piece on this, pointing out that it’s either outrageously hypocritical, or it exposes the fact that conservatives don’t really care about unborn babies—what they really care about is policing people’s sex lives (and women’s bodies):

that unicorn must feel like this.

I’eve never thought about diets this way but it makes total sense. Is that why I can’t lose weight? Can I blame my atheism?

I like that we’re judging the head of the Catholic Church roughly the same way I judge the stuff my 8 year old nephew makes in his pottery class.