I am gay and see crystal clear how it’s a violation of free speech: The government is compelling the bakery to produce an item that contains a political message it disagrees with. Pretty clear violation of freedom of speech principles right there.

It’s a free speech issue because the government is compelling the bakery, by law, to produce an item that contains a political message they disagree with or face financial liability. If this were a U.S. case, the law would be pretty quickly struck down as a violation of the First Amendment.

Why do I have a funny feeling the same journos irritated by a child at a press conference have also muttered something about how the Black community needs more positive fatherly role models and has asked a professional female athlete how she balances work and motherhood and where is her kid right now.

The same people who talk shit about “fatherless children”.

Nope. Best practices for suicide reporting recommend not using “committed,” which sounds like a crime or, to religious communities, like a sin, and “kill yourself” is just insensitive, crude, and poorly phrased. “Died by suicide” is the phrasing recommended by mental health professionals and the American Foundation…

Well, for starters, the bangers killing people in Baltimore and other cities aren’t paid by the taxpayers to keep the peace/enforce the law/not beat the everloving shit out of people.

Does Marquez really think that where he’s allowed to broadcast from is damaging his First Amendment rights? I’m writing this penned in my apartment in Baltimore City, under curfew as an American citizen for the fourth night in a row. I had to play a game of “how do I not get arrested” when trying to help a…

I find it amazing/hilarious that a nicely tucked-in uterus caused them more concern than two exposed, free-swinging, highly-sensitive balls.

For some reason I'm getting such a kick out of the lady complaining that the missy elliot lyrics contained vulgar words and then labeled links to the lyrics as "NSFW" ignoring the fact that she typed said apparently vulgar words including "shit", "cock" and "pussy" into her email.

I wonder if he taps tall people on the shoulder and goes, "Excuse me, sir, could you please stop being so tall? I am TRYING to SEE." (I wish I could do that sometimes.)

how can you combat such ignorance? seriously. how can someone like her become anti-racist?

My dog learned how to slide the pan in his crate out from under the crate and move throughout the house WHILE still in the crate. Sometimes though, the rubber corners on the metal crate would cause him to get wedged in the hallway, so he'd be stuck there for an hour until I got home. He also learned how to press the…

Just to be clear though, home birth doesn't necessarily mean unassisted. There are lots of countries (not the US), where midwives are more common, and they take on home births. Midwives are usually super vigilant about only taking home births when risk factors are relatively low, so let's not shit on all home births.