I just got auto-modded. Are we not allowed to say T rump?

I was all for civil discourse and the ability to disagree without being disagreeable up until the point where defending Trump meant defending predatory tendencies. After that, if you still think Trump is wonderful or even just funny there is something wrong with you.

All you have to do is google "gifted program bias" and you'll see that for several reasons there is bias. And standardized gifted tests are geared toward the language style and knowledge base of particular groups, rendering kids who just as gifted from other groups at a disadvantage. The fact of the matter is that…

Having known a lot of older MRAs, this weeks column and comments were cathartic.

Since gifted program criteria tends to be biased against minorities, this lines up with everything else in our society. Control the black man's sexuality, everything the white man does is excusable.

Hey, looks like I was accidentally banned over on the avocado. Can you let MYE know he screwed up?

Yes. Even young Jesus was a jerk if we listen to the infancy gospels.

Perhaps most egregiously, the boys’ cool credentials are established
with their singing a version of “On Top Of Old Smokey,” replacing the
next lines with:

All covered in blood

I shot my poor teacher

With a .44 slug

The films were made well before the most high-profile school shootings of the ’90s, but c’mon.

Nah, the guy in question is solid and a regular part of the community where it occurred. The social conditioning of the present culture just isn't condusive to boys learning this as they grow up, so they end up having to figure it out the hard way (aka looking like a neanderthal when they get it wrong).

Isn't this copyright infringement? I mean, it's not parody. It's not really commentary. It's just a story using pokemon characters. Doesn't that cross some kind of line when its on a commercial for-profit site? I'm just wondering.

I said to myself "the correct answer is Jake and Ben Sisko, and I bet Zack gets it right."

his talent is that he's ingratiating. "song-and-skit" refers to his religious affiliation.

those tend to be course corrections that re-orientate in regards to changing "in-group" and "out-group" lines. Show me a major religious schism that doesn't end up syncing along ethnic or national lines.

Dishonesty is not sexy. I'm cool with open relationships, but not lying ones. That would be the difference for me.

religion as separate from nation or ethnicity is a very recent phenomena and still remains a secondary distinction. Islamophobia, for instance, is at its base primarily a racist issue.

The history of colonization suggests that it is religious extremists and capitalistic entrepreneurs who have the most motivation to undertake permanent settlements. The early american settlements were practically communes too on the ground level, but that didn't stop them from being propped up and fed by…

There are a lot of people who own a NIN album, dude. Reznor's kind of talented, you know.

I like both Pete's Dragon.

I think a better understanding of neurological diversity is the next step. Once upon a time, the king/emperor/senate class was at the top of the class system by divine right. Men were better than women. One race was superior to another. Things shift when we move from seeing things as a hierarchy to a web of equal…

If asking seriously, watch the extended editions but watch in 45 minute to an hour long segments like it's a season of a TV show.