I hear you on that. I also find myself admiring my opponents when they’re clever. So, even though the anti-choice crowd is awful, usually I find their political cohesion impressive. You’re right that these ones need to get it together, though.

You’re assuming a level of self-awareness which abortion protesters do not possess.

Juries are dumb. If you’ve ever heard jurors interviewed post-trial, a huge number are very credulous and think that cops and prosecutors walk on water. So yeah, juries are dumb; they’re also racist, and basically hold every other common foible. Why is that a surprising critique?

It’s cute how you think that “beyond a reasonable doubt” is the standard which juries actually use.

So “the most generous estimates” are comprised entirely of people who can be exonerated with DNA evidence, I take it. I never said, btw, that a majority of death penalty recipients are not guilty (although that could be true) but that the modal case involves people that we can’t reasonably say that we are sure are…

This is the most fun thing to watch right now. Presumably the Republican Party will eventually stop eating its own, so let’s all enjoy it for now.

You’re fine to keep saying it that way. The Quechua word is basically said as ‘kee-NOO-ah’, and the Spanish version is said more like ‘kee-NO-ah’. The thing that’s bizarre is that some people who speak neither of those languages have a snobby pronunciation rule (incidentally, I have a degree in Spanish, so it pretty…

That guy’s a piece of shit. Are you suggesting he get the death penalty though? Because as far as I know, no charges in that case can lead to his being killed by the state in our current system.

You knew Dahmer was not sentenced to death but still used him as an example of why capital punishment is so great? Square that one for me.

You’d have an argument if people who were sentenced to death were always monstrous serial killers who we could have almost no epistemic doubt were guilty. But we live in a world where the modal recipient of this penalty may really not have committed the crime for which they were accused, and sometimes has done an…

“... don’t people have sex in their houses?” I mean, not if you’re cool like Scalia.

Wait, so they’re turning “-oa” into two syllables?

They’re not useless. They just have a high enough false positive rate that patients who are at very low risk are unlikely to have the disease even if they test positive. They’re still very important for people in high risk groups, and useful as an occasional screening tool for others. That said, the BRCA tests are a…

Yep, the only partner I ever had cry after sex did it after rather intense play that she had been the initiator of. I don’t know that the crash theory explains all responses like this, but it explains that one.

Lots of states make absentee ballots hard to get. Fortunately Colorado makes it easy. But look how Latinos voted here in 2012; Texas Republicans will never go for it.

You’d think, but nope.

Not if the Republican legislature shuts down your closest polling stations and doesn’t leave enough parking in the only one set up to service too many voters. 4+ hour lines are not unheard-of in blue districts in red states. The fact that you think it only takes 15 minutes is a sign of your ignorance, and not a…

It’s cute how you think y’all got there first. Many of the Hispanic residents of Texas are descended from white people who got there before the U.S. was founded and native people who had been there since before recorded history. So Texas entering the Union in the first place is the result of “bullshit demographic…

Definitely don’t screw him. It’s dangerous and he doesn’t deserve it.

I wholeheartedly agree with this. Partners I’ve had who report not masturbating are much more difficult to get to climax than those who do it a bunch and have for a long time. Not a huge sample, but I think my findings concur with the general body of research.