Men get to ‘have it all’ (education/career/money/family/property) because they traditionally rely on others to do the actual work (wives, secretaries/assistants, junior staff, maids/cooks/gardeners/nannies etc). Women tend to be doing all that and trying to work at the same level as men, without the same support…

It’s the mistranslation of written Aramaic to Greek, and then Latin. Yeshua/Jesus, see also Yahweh/Jehovah. (Written Aramaic has no vowels, IIRC.)

Which on one hand, is a good point - there’s nothing new in what’s happening, the laws they are using were there during Obama and Bush, so this is perfectly legal.

Wait, how does a charity organisation pay out MORE money than it received? Even the best charities return what, 90 cents on the dollar? I’m somewhat suspicious - perhaps Trump might open his books and verify this bold statement?

From other articles, it appears that any status lower than full citizen is subject to being revoked for any criminal conviction. So this is technically legal, but given the other factors (17 yrs ago, sentence completed, nothing since, 8 officers to arrest a 62 yo etc), it’s also clearly not about protecting the…

Nah, this is what makes it. The faux-Christian values of the right conveniently leave out that Jesus said some very pointed things about children and how to treat them. Calling them out on their hypocrisy is definitely a plus.

Wow. Lady, your chosen career is to put foreign substances into people’s bodies in the name of fashion. The amount of “toxic” chemicals in a vaccine (preservatives etc) is ridiculously small compared to “natural” things like, for example, the fruit you just fed to your child. And they are the same substances used in…

(I also had the thought, that after years of ripping on public servants and intelligence agents, he’s gonna have a lot of trouble dealing with any government body in the future. No one does petty like a bureaucracy scorned.)

I am constantly fascinated by the zero-sum attitude that underlies so much of American culture. The idea that in order to ‘win’, somebody else must ‘lose’, or be seen to ‘lose’, or you haven’t really ‘won’.

Maybe. The discussions i’ve seen are fifty/fifty on whether the law allows him to pardon himself (it’s not specifically ruled out) but then 99% sure it would lead to impeachment. And of course, there’s always the Capone method - I doubt he’s smart enough to draft a pardon that will cover everything dodgy he’s done,…

Oh, lordy, this again. Look, if you are one of those lucky people who have standard feet and can wear heels and never trip over, go right ahead! I can’t do it, and any time I’ve gotten flack for it (for not being ‘professional’ looking) I retort that landing flat on my ass wouldn’t look professional either (and if…

Ha, he’s not talking about actual mental health care. It’s a dog whistle that leads straight back to the ‘deranged lone wolf’ excuse, with the added bonus of regarding the (straight white male) shooter’s feelings of inadequacy and entitlement as more important than his victims’ right to live.

Generally, the New Testament (the whole Jesus died for your sins, love your neighbour as yourself bits) is much more progressive than the Old Testament. Saul/Paul then ruins it by being a huuuge misogynist who came up with all these rules (like headship, women being submissive blah blah), that men have used to be…

Yeah, I never understood the appeal. I always assumed it was one of those ‘mysteries’ like every other ‘he walked into the bush and vanished!’ story from that period ie they wandered unprepared into one of the most inhospitable environments on the planet and DIED, and the body was never found.

There were a lot of actresses who seemingly dropped off the radar after a few big hits over the last 20-30 yrs. At the time, you either don’t notice, or you assume they went off to do indie stuff, or theatre, or have kids, or had ‘aged out’. Actively getting blacklisted because they refused inappropriate sexual…

Um, Australia is kinda like that. Despite most of our ‘illegal’ entrants being visa overstays, our government spends a lot of tax money on campaigns to stop boat people/ refugees trying to get here from Indonesia (obstensibly to prevent them being taken ripped off by smugglers and drowning on the way), and on…

It’s worth noting, that in a recent mass shooting in Western Australia, the guns used were legal rifles, on a rural property, by a ‘responsible gun owner’, who had no violent incidents or warning signs.

Part of this low rate may be that men don’t really think about changing their names, whereas women do.

I was reading an interview from 1987, and there was a paragraph that stuck out, that not everyone could be President, but if you had $40 million dollars,  looked good on TV, and had the active support/indirect assent of the rich guys who actually run things, sure, you could be President!

Lady garden for the outside, the downstairs department for the inside. As in ‘shock horror, I may actually have a visitor in the downstairs department, I better make sure the lady garden gets a trim’. Descriptive but still something you could say in front of your nan.