“came out strong against against same-sex marriage and abortion”

I think most people don’t realize that you can just type your arithmetic problem into the Google search box and get an answer. That’s actually almost always easier than opening up the calculator app especially if your calculation involves more than one operation.

Just wait until the Asians arrive with their high IQs. Back when Murray & Herstein’s book “The Bell Curve” was labelled as racist for pointing out that blacks score one standard deviation LOWER than whites on IQ tests, few people commented on the authors’ observation that Asians score one standard deviation HIGHER…

She didn’t “ask for it” but maybe, just maybe, she shouldn’t participate in this kind of pageant.

This is the textbook definition of “arbitrary and capricious.” Take the regulators to court.

I don’t think we need to hunt down the gun hoarders. Just identify the weaponry that is forbidden, and make it harder and harder to possess that weaponry. Over decades, old gun nuts will die, their children will turn in their crazy dead uncles’ gun hoards for the cash bounty, and people will come to appreciate that…

Everyone would rather go without protection, but we all agree that you’ll likely regret it. Also, buy a case for your iPhone.

Let’s just ban all assault-style rifles, i.e. AR-15-style rifles. These are the rifles that were used in the Sandy Hook shooting, in the Las Vegas shooting, and in this shooting. Not very complicated. Ban them all. Insist that people currently possessing these weapons turn them in so they can be destroyed. Give them…

Not solitary - on belay with a teammate handling the other end of the rope. But still an incredible athletic achievement.

Gonna take a wild guess that you haven’t filled out your ballot for Tuesday’s election. Guess who has? Your nasty transphobic neighbor who wants to do real damage to trans rights, not just with pictures on bathroom doors.

Boycott this shitty restaurant. But also wake up people, this kind of casual transphobia is maybe the smallest problem we are facing today. Our elected government is fucking up the environment, abridging the right to vote, denying access to medical care and family planning, abusing and deporting immigrants, etc. on a…

When everything else seems bleak, I remember that given Trump’s age and my relative youth, I will one day read in the news that he is dead. Unless, of course, we simultaneously perish in a nuclear conflagration, or no news of his death is released by the Ministry of Truth.

Another way of putting this:

Tim Kaine is apparently inspired by the career of Joe Lieberman — become running mate for a campaign that should be a slam dunk, win the popular vote but lose the electoral vote, and then betray the liberal causes that you embraced as a running mate.

Also, why do Trump and the Repubs seem to hate the idea of giving the suspect a fair trial? They were saying he should be labelled an enemy combatant, denied his Miranda rights, and shipped off to Gitmo. Are they actually worried that prosecutors could not convict in a fair trial? I expect there’s a mountain of…

Ugh, his signature gives me the willies. That’s the signature of a crazy person.

Thank you for laying out your arguments for why it would be bad thing if Trump did not run for reelection.

I’m just worried about the identity politics dividing the people who should be united against Trump and the alt-right. Steve Bannon chortles with glee every time a white male liberal (like Jimmy Kimmel) is told to check his privilege.

Isha Aran has some very brown female thoughts about Jimmy Kimmel.

Thank you for your thoughtful reply. I agree with you that the international applicant pool does change the story and that the people who get in to the top universities are the cream of the crop internationally. I saw that myself as a graduate student at MIT, where the vast majority of my fellow graduate students were…