This was just what I was going to say. Where I live, social services goes out of their way to avoid placing black and first nations children in care with white families because they say the parents are ill-equipped to understand the reality of racism and properly prepare the children to live in the world as it…

It is obvious, from your response, that you do have very little compassion.

Since she transitioned after being jailed in a miliary prison, that is the only known photo that exists of Manning as a female. The only alternate choice is a painting/computer-generated image (you can see it toward the bottom of her Wikipedia page) but it’s pretty uncanny valley, which is probably why everyone uses…

Maybe not having a rule against trying to commit suicide so that you feel the need to punish people who are at the absolute lowest possible point a human being can reach? It’s like outlawing catching a cold. A suicidal person, particularly in a context where people are just trying to make their existence as miserable…

I don’t know if he still does. There is this transcript of an appearance on CNN where Donald and Melania acknowledge Barron speaks with an accent because he spends all of his time with Melania, but it’s 6 years ago, so he only would have been 4 or 5 at the time. http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1004/28/lkl.01.html

That’s sort of how the world works, and it’s pretty dumb. After I won a $35,000 scholarship, my school decided to reward me for my accomplishment by giving me another $15,000 scholarship. That I had no need for. While other students were selling off their possessions to get by. But it was a scholarship specifically…

I would be more surprised to learn that Trump’s grandkids call Melania grandma than to find out no one else in the family speaks to her or even acknowledges her existence. Like I assume she’s only trotted out for photo-ops and otherwise she and Barron have their own wing of the Mar a Lago where they hole up Big and…

By “a guy who seems high most of the time” I assumed you meant Trump until I kept reading. Because he does. Like that press conference in Mexico? Whatever he was on there, I want to try some.

Oy. Last time I’m going to point out that I simply interpreted the statement for someone who seemed to misunderstand the intent. I wasn’t the one who said it.

I can understand. The New York-centrism of the (formerly) Gawker sites can get a little tiresome to those of us who don’t live there. But that’s where, and who, most of the writers are, I guess.

I do. I don’t live in New York or California and I am not a crazy racist lady. I didn’t make the statement, just tried to interpret it for someone who I thought misunderstood the intent.

I wasn’t the one who said it, and I didn’t say I agree with it, it just seemed to me that was what was intended by the statement.

I think the point is more that it’s easy to assume there is no way Trump could ever be elected if you aren’t surrounded by openly racist crazy people day in and day out.

I was just going to post the same - Blow me down, Come By Chance, Man Point... and Dildo bears repeating.

I got that when my answer is really a Draper James tote bag that Kanye West has paid a hack artist to destroy with paint.

Yeah, for sure researchers, it’s due to obesity. The maternal mortality rate is three times higher in the US than Canada, because America has three times the rate of obesity compared to Canada. Wait, that’s not true? Hmmm... I wonder what else could be the difference between the US and all other industrialized…

Tibet was a religious monarchy. The religious and political leaders were/are one and the same. The Dalai Lama is as much a politician as a religious leader, probably more so when it comes down to it.

I want to see Simon Baker go on this show, filmed live for reasons no on can explain, and then go into character from The Mentalist and figuratively tear this little scam artist limb from limb. And that could be the end of the weird little fake psychic man.

The thing is that all of these cold reading people need to do is occasionally hit it dead on with their guesses for everyone to continue to think psychics might actually be a thing. Because most people aren’t going to go around telling the whole neighbourhood “Oh, I paid money to a psychic who was an obvious hack.”…

If there were genuine psychics in the world who weren’t just cold reading and ripping people off, I have no doubt those would be the people who would end up on TV, versus the obvious scam artists who do. If it was possible to find anyone who consistently amazed people with genuine insights the TV people wouldn’t care…