I lived in SF from age 24 to age 44. Here’s what no one who still lives there wants to admit: our once-beloved city now belongs very frimly to the Justin Kellers of the world. SF is their city now, and there’s no going back, no saving it. The damage is done. SF is coasting on its amazing history, but this is its…

For real. My jaw dropped reading that line. What a fucking clueless douche of the highest degree.

“I shouldn’t have to see the pain, struggle, and despair of homeless people to and from my way to work every day.”

You seem to be confusing legal sexual acts between consenting adults (whether you find them ‘classy’ or not is besides the point) and illegal activity, such as statutory rape. I have heard many allegations against Bill Clinton, but statutory rape has never been among them.

Bet you can’t name the women George H. Bush had affairs with. Or George W. Bush’s cocaine dealer.

Gotcha, Blah blah, liberal, blah blah. Never said it was classy, or right. Just wondering where your out of left field comment was coming from. She was of age, which was more of the point. She wasn’t 14 like the girl in the article. Now a conversation about coercion, yes that would be a great place to insert your…

Have you seen the film Smooth Talk, with Laura Dern? It’s based on the Joyce Carol Oates short story Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? and it’s about just this time period in a girl’s life, when you look adult but are very much a child, but not all the time.

Well, considering she was 21...

I was 13-14 in the mid-70s, and I got a lot of attention from grown men. I was thrilled by it. Boys my age either ignored me, barked at me, or called me names. Adult men talked to me like I was a person, admired me, complemented me. At the time, it was bliss, and I felt it made me special. And thanks mainly to a lack…

My 10th grade history teacher in Georgia told us that slavery was wrong, but that had nothing to do with the civil war so why were we even bringing it up?

My family lived in Northeast Tennessee when I was in 2nd-4th grade. My 4th grade teacher (who was working very hard to make sure rules didn’t pass that said teachers had to treat gay students in the same way as straight): (this is not a joke)

Bey didn’t almost fall - gravity momentarily forgot who it was fuckng with.

Did you read this article? Because this is in there:

Agreed. To a frighteningly large proportion of Americans, racism means calling attention to the fact that people are treated differently according to their race.

Right, it was definitely the judge that made it about race *eyeroll*

Not that this is surprising, but apparently a number of commenters on the Fox article about the sentencing accused the justice of posturing for attention and inappropriately making the sentencing about race. Because there’s no such thing as racism, unless it’s against White people....

Yes. The right to be a conscientious objector already exists. It is highly, highly unlikely that it will ever be relevant again, but in the event it is, there is that right. You have the right to go to court and have witnesses testify that you are a conscientious objector to warfare.

Sure...we can always pay the poor to fight our wars, as we have since the Volunteer Army began.

They’re gonna bang so hard... or soft I guess... however old people bang.

I kinda get what Katie is saying. I am early 40s, and I still wonder when the adults are going to show up and help me out with life stuff.