Functionally, this makes no sense. If someone asks a teammate what they think about a player's private life, he has a readymade answer: "don't know, don't care, he plays football good." If anything, answering questions that actually have to do with the game have much more risk of distracting players, e.g., "which of…

Janet Mock has a job; Piers Morgan doesn't. Life is funny.

Yes, if there's anything racist segregationists were famous for, it was sharing bathroom facilities freely with African-Americans. I'm sure there was zero controversy about that.

Maybe you should investigate how to make sure that poor parents would get the support they needed instead of sterilizing them. The history of sterilization is that people in power generally abuse that power to make sure that people who look like them get to have kids and those that don't don't.

Maybe I couldn't discern the words clearly between the middle-class tongue-clucking, but yeah, that's what that poster's "financially and emotionally ready" means to me.

I can't imagine why anyone would give you shit for saying poor people should be sterilized and only rich people should be allowed to have children.

"Heart" not the organs in question, I don't think.

I'm not on his side, but mostly because of the alleged abuse. It's weird that the term "sperm donor" is being thrown around so disparagingly here. If he had instead pursued some one-night stand for custody, would that somehow make him a better father or person? Plenty of people are opting for new and different kinds…

Rape still isn't funny, even when it's prison rape.

I'm pretty sure what he meant by that comment was that sex should be permitted to remain private, i.e., he should be permitted to have a sex life without constantly looking over his shoulder. If you read that to mean that Burke thought everyone should remain in the closet, that's such a willful misreading of this…

Health care is interstate commerce, as anyone who's ever driven from New Jersey to New York to get medical treatment could tell you.

Except she can't use the money that McDonald's gives her to feed her family and care for their needs. McDonald's very recently had an employee financial planning section where part of the economic plan was having a second job, and day care wasn't even mentioned as an expense.

One should point out that getting off heroin and other opioids while pregnant is actually medically contraindicated, because exposing your baby to heroin is not as bad as making your baby go through withdrawal with you. The recommended treatment for pregnant women addicted to opioids is to give them methadone or a…

"When it is not obvious what service an animal provides, only limited inquiries are allowed. Staff may ask two questions: (1) is the dog a service animal required because of a disability, and (2) what work or task has the dog been trained to perform. Staff cannot ask about the person's disability, require medical…

I particularly like that nobody has an actual objection to this, in the sense that anything about this actually harms them. They're all basically afraid that somebody might be having something good they don't deserve. I don't know who does or doesn't have a mental illness, or whose dog has or hasn't been trained, so I…

All the people in the thread who can tell who really has a mental illness by looking at them in stores for a few seconds should definitely report their tele-psychiatric skills to a local university, so that everyone can benefit from their wisdom.

.... And then I pull off my mask, and I'm a lizard person, too. Blackout. End of episode

If I were betting money, it's probably not a staffer doing it. It's probably an automatic software process whereby any comment that gets enough flags or reports gets deleted. Your rational conversation was probably just flagged by a bunch of doofuses in the comments.

Good talk.

No, I don't see why two people who could legally have sex with each other should be prohibited from sending explicit texts and videos of each other to one another. The purpose of child pornography laws is to deter the underlying harm and exploitation associated with the production of child porn. When neither of the…