It doesn’t matter if it was done by card-carrying members of IS or not; if they want and support the same objective, then it’s all the same. “Credit” only matters on their end if they’ve got some rivalries for Worst Terrorist Gang Ever going on and are seeking personal/group glory as much or more than their…

I was really impressed with both the familiarity with & the curiosity about history/world events. I love stuffing their heads with information. :-) And I especially want to encourage girls this age to feel confident & knowledgeable about this stuff.

I get your point about the figleaf, but it’s going too far to suggest that this has “absolutely nothing” to do with faith. For at least some terrorists, faith - their experience of it - is very much a part of their chosen actions. It may be a perverted, extremist, insane (or just marginal) manifestation of that…

In at least the first articles I read, it sounded like it happened just outside the arena/connected tunnels...?

Is there ANYONE in this administration who knows anything, at all, about anything?

I will :-) I did just let some of these girls know what happened as I did the carpool trek home from this evening’s activity, so they weren’t surprised if they heard about it when alone. They, naturally, were more nonchalant about it than I, but it did lead into a great discussion about world politics, international…

That, or Andre Brevik, or Mengele’s experiments on children...and a billion more examples of horrible things done to and by people could have done that - straw that broke the camel’s back and such. I’m not suggesting this is the “worst,” though I would say I don’t think it’s constructive or illuminating to compare. …

Sorry for the late reply! In BDSM, a bottom can mean either physically receptive partner OR the person in the role of the submissive; you could be submissive and not be penetrated (but instead be the one penetrating). A power bottom is usually someone who is both bottom and dominant. This can be a specific power…

You got so much shit for relaying this, but I just flipped to a news site and the story is right up top with the central news. Mofo followed up with “Too soon?”

Young, innocent, starry-eyed.

My daughter (+ 7 friends) went to this concert (her first) a couple months ago. Yeah, it’s going to be young ones. I’m sick.

So you’re nitpicking a guy who just saw a shit-ton of carnage of children (and who may very well have been there with his own, so add that to the horror factor) about whether he *really* was exactly as close as he said?

Where are you seeing nail bombs? And now I really want to vomit.

I call bullshit. Unless he thought people were dead or injured, his “joke” would not make “sense.” I hope he breaks his ankle tonight.

Jesus Fucking Christ. If it is a deliberate attack (and signs point to yes, if the note on CNN that there was a controlled explosion of a second device is correct, but we’ll see), I finally, finally am feeling bleak about humanity. Yes, it’s taken this long. The dead and injured are likely girls 10-13. And yes, I…

Putting aside the absurd hilarity of Comey’s full-body cringe at the prospect of being sighted by Trump, it’s clear Trump just thinks this (and everything else he’s done in life) is a huge joke (well, actually, thats a joke: he thinks everything is just whatever he says it is, which is whatever benefits him in the…

Possibly, but I thought you called it uniquely gay, which, if by “uniquely” you mean the act only really makes sense in the gay community, I don’t think I agree. But I’m interested in your comment.... What do you mean by “by default”? It’s a very real thing that is widely used and has a specific, sensical meaning…

I’ve no issue with the questions you’ve raised here, but I did want to point out that “power bottom” is also used in the BDSM world, and not just for gay relationships....

You say basic, I say classic. :-D