I think good op-ed writers can serve an important purpose. I also don’t think Nolan lumps in columnists with reporters at any point.

Oh come on, his column couldn’t have been that ba...

“I feared that some acquaintance would see me, interrogate me and never think the same of me again.”

A substantial amount, certainly. As a poster above pointed out, travel wasn’t just voluntary - semi- and involuntary travel were both essential, and both private and state interests drove that mobility.

Thank you for the kind words!

I have a feeling this person will irrationally blame everything from here on out on Bernie Sanders. No use trying to argue with them. Maybe time for a THANKS, BERNIE! meme?

Yes his parents had his birth certificate changed.

See, my reading is that the only status quo candidate to win a presidential election in the last 50 years is George HW Bush, so she was doomed from the outset.

Guys, not being a giant shit-heel is hard. Like really hard. Let’s just settle in to being awful. Doing right by others is costing time and money. I mean once, I had to go to school with black people. Can you believe it?! They were black! I got into politics to make sure this doesn’t happen to anyone else.

This is a huge deal locally. Our daughter goes to a magnet program for performing arts, but it’s largely unknown what would even become of the magnet programs.

I feel like this is among the most important and poignant takeaways from all this:

I expect nothing less from a state which re elects a lipless sadist known as Mitch McConnell over and over.

Fictional version of Jack Warner calling fictional version of Bette Davis a cunt is not the same as as an FX employee calling another employee a cunt. It’s also not even close to equivalent to the real life Jabba the Hutt demoting women for not fucking his nasty ass among many other gross actions. I mean what a…

So, you’re saying there are actual real life facts that would refute this whole ban thing? Hmmm...interesting.

There are a lot of cis men and cis women who don’t pass as their gender.

We had the news on, and they were interviewing a trans woman who I would never have even guessed was trans if she hadn’t just said so. So my wife and I were talking about the fact that if that woman on the TV walked into the ladies room, neither of us would bat an eye. But if that same trans woman were forced to use…

And that’s the point of these bills. They’re intended to lead to harassment and even violence against trans people with the hope that trans people either stop existing or at the very least stop going in public.

There’s also a big LGBT issue here: many asylum/refugee cases are currently pending, involving lesbian and gay (particularly) Saudis (also Iranians and other middle Eastern nationals) seeking refuge in the United States. This arbitrary limit on refugees could send them home to their certain deaths, unless Canada takes…

My wife and I were just talking about this yesterday because there’s (yet another) anti-trans bill on the way through the TX legislature right now. We had the news on, and they were interviewing a trans woman who I would never have even guessed was trans if she hadn’t just said so. So my wife and I were talking about…

I’m going to go ahead and guess Saudi Arabia is still not on the list because of Mango Mussolini’s business ties to that country, even tho most of the 9/11 hijackers were from there and elements within the royal family have funded terrorism and extremism in both the Muslim world and the West for decades. And why don’t…