Let’s not necessarily conflate racism with academic snobbery. I’ve gone to scientific conferences where the only attendees that mattered (or were listed) were attendees who were professors or postdoctoral researchers at prestigious institutions. All other attendees were simply “present.” And the prestigious attendees…

Interesting. Certainly, providing a venue for “simulated rape” of a sex doll is distasteful, but it probably shouldn’t be illegal, because it’s victimless. Unless you want to call it illegal because it’s “obscene” and therefore intolerable even as private, victimless conduct. A harder question would be “simulated…

Here’s how the conversation goes:

And that veterinarian who shot a house cat with an bow and arrow.

It doesn’t make me uncomfortable, but I think it’s a distraction to talk about race right now, when the issue is gun control. What’s the point of talking about race in this context? Maybe it’s to point out that gun control is just one of many issues that affect black lives, of course. But if there are people out there…

I am SO EXCITED that the youth are getting angry and active.

The issue of black kids being killed by police is a totally separate issue, not a gun control issue. Yes, we should ALSO all be marching in the streets in outrage about police violence against black youth, but most people would probably agree that the problem there is that many police are racist, not that police…

Maybe it was a bad idea after all to force the southern states to stay in the Union. Maybe we should’ve just let them leave, and offered asylum to any refugees.

“Producer Scott Rudin told the Times,’I can’t and won’t present a play that feels like it was written in the year the book was written in terms of its racial politics: It wouldn’t be of interest.’”

Are you injecting race into this issue because you need a clicky title for your story? Maybe we can all just simply celebrate that our kids are taking a stand for gun control, a rare moment of solidarity and common good will.

I love how he’s a public official nominally doing the people’s business and he needs a soundproof phone booth.

Maybe she needs a better agent. It’s often said, and often true, that men push harder for higher pay.

It’s not discriminatory, unless you hired the “people other than straight white men” because they were not not white or not straight.

Except an “inclusion rider” is just a euphemism for an affirmative action-style quota requirement, is it not?

OK so adding a black child into this story changes everything.

More than “never talk to the police” — affirmately, unambiguously assert that you are exercising your right to remain silent.

Here’s a good one to know as far as searches:

Here’s my favorite from patent law:

I’m not sure how you can “make” someone like seafood. If you don’t like it, you don’t like it. But I am sorry for your loss (of the joy of eating great seafood), and wonder if frozen fish sticks are to blame for your seafood aversion.

Don’t talk to me about regular exercise and a healthy diet of whole foods. Where’s the PILL to replace those things?