Taking micro- and macro- economics can really teach people how to think and be more informed voters. A lot of people vote based on scare tactic ads without knowing what a graduated tax system actually is, or how the treasury really operates, for example. I also think that history, when taught properly, really teaches…
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Except they don't actually teach history. True history is multi-disciplinary and isn't strictly limited to "name the battle that changed X" or "name the guy who did Y, and where was he from?". Knowing WHAT without knowing WHY is entirely useless. I blame the influence of the geographers. While they're a perfectly…
Why can't we teach government officials and cops to have some common sense and provide leeway for extenuating circumstances?
I have a lot of feelings about this whole War Machine thing but I will just summarize by saying that I hope from here on out the world is very unkind to him.
There was a fascinating article (link below) in The Atlantic a few months ago about how sad it is that kids don't get unsupervised playtime anymore, and how it's messing up their ability to learn independence, risk assessment, and decision-making. One of its points was that parents keep a closer eye on their kids…
I'm white, but my kid's best friend in our neighborhood is black, and she's the same age with similar rules and their family hasn't had trouble either that I know of. I honestly think it's more of a poverty/class thing at work here, with of course the obvious stipulation that the poor in America's cities (which is…
I am so sick of this shit. This is ridiculous, full stop. What good can this possibly serve?
So instead of finding ways to get her resources for caring for her children, they... strip her of more resources by throwing her in jail? This makes sense.
For what it's worth, I'm a white woman, and I totally get how people of color could hate white folks for what they've done and still do. There's nothing I can do to change what happened and what's still happening. My hope is just not to contribute to it. To try and reach out where I can. And, most importantly, to make…
I...can not with this week as a young black woman I like to think of myself as optimistic but they are wearing me down. It upsets me because she isn't even talking to a black person and yet the n-word comes out of her mouth and all brown people look alike amirite? It flowed out too you can tell she uses it all the…
I was rear ended at a stop light by a dude going 40 miles an hour. He totaled my car. I got out and exchanged insurance information with him. I didn't go on a racist tirade & threaten to kill him because I am not, in fact, clinically insane.
I believe this was filmed in Durham, North Carolina.
I need some new Gluten Free/Casein Free/Dairy free/Soy free,Chick pea flour free recipes! Something a picky little eater would like.
You become a Vegan in Purgatory?
The Adam McPhee "gaping vagina" guy is an MRA:
I wonder if she'd asked, "Anyone know a country where diapers are free or subsidized," if these over-blown responders would have jumped in with the same vitriol. Very likely, they would—-because the presumption is that if anyone even asks if anything is free or subsidized, that the person is a lazy bum trying to get…
Men have no idea what tampons and pads cost and how deeply essential they are. There's a huge stigma about menstruation that makes a dude buying tampons for his usually overly emotional girlfriend into a tired TV comedy show trope. Women in poor countries either have nothing to bleed into it (and lose jobs and school…
Disclosure: I am a lawyer and I practice Family Law.
It all really depends on how successful his practice was to begin with. It looks like he does a lot of criminal work, where there tend to be more male clients than female ones, and a lot of divorce work, where in most cases there will be a spouse of each gender. He might be able to make a go of it.