I’m always suspicious about organizations that talk about their honor. I remember Emerson’s quote, “the more he spoke of his honor the faster we counted our spoons.”

I’m all about supporting our troops. And about women having to pass the same physical standards as men. Every woman partner I’ve had as a cop easily passed the same standards I did. My last one is still in better shape than I’ve ever been in. So, I know women can do it.

Well. One thing JJ achieved for the Star Trek canon... :)

Yup. I knew what I was writing.

Rules can sometimes lean toward the “lady-like” (uniform code, for one- my high school forbids the wearing of pants). If it has a religious affiliation, that can be problematic for some.

Agreed. All girls high school attendees tend to become and stay involved in student leadership, extracurriculars, STEM clubs, etc. When there are no boys as competitors, distractions, or critics, girls are better off.

Here are a few issues about private schools to consider. It might not be the case for the schools in your area.

I am not entirely convinced at all that this is Star Trek so much as it is a science fiction movie with some of the trappings of Star Trek.

I read this earlier and cried. We need fucking universal health care in this country. Greatest country in the world my ass. I legitimately want to move to Canada no matter who wins this election.

Fifty years together.

Thank you for your service.

I remember hearing stories, from various service people, about people “falling” overboard on ships or carriers, rape in barracks or elsewhere, “fragging”, etc.

As one of those people who never considered herself the “military type” and spent damn near a decade trying to navigate through the raw sewage that is the Army’s patriarchal hierarchy of clusterfuck, it is not sustainable. It takes a toll. I’m sure you know.

Well duh, calling people from other countries “aliens” makes it so much easier to pretend they aren’t human.

While the botched executions with questionable drugs are tragic, everyone needs to realize that so-called ‘legitimate’ execution drugs weren’t much better. There was never any specific or coherent science behind them, they were just someone’s best guess and it ended up being adopted almost fait accompli. While the…

In my head it reads as sarcasm with air quotes. Doesn’t translate in print. You are correct.

Do those kinds of relationships actually exist? Rhetorical because yes they do because my best friend is a married man and there is zero romance involved. Only pose the question because most people in my life can’t fathom it and we’re secretly harboring feelings for each other. Also get accused of trying to “hook up”…

WHOAAAH calm down there feminazi

I love this great country where people are free to brainwash other people and call it a religion. My parents tried to do the same thing with me and catholicism, it didn’t work. I saw right through that bullshit.

“a child is not a christian child, not a muslim child, but a child of christian parents or a child of muslim parents. this latter nomenclature, by the way, would be an excellent piece of consciousness-raising for the children themselves. a child who is told she is a ‘child of muslim parents’ will immediately realize…