I just don’t get the necklace. Not that it’s ugly or anything, it’s that it’s so plain and unremarkable. It’s a glorified charm bracelet. And with just four letters on it, one letter is going to be the low point making it look uneven, as one side will have two letters going up while the other side will only have one.…

I am a doctor and I have never heard of testosterone, or any other male sex hormone/ androgen, as a treatment for for lung diseases. I have not heard of any menopause - induced lung diseases either. I also tried looking this up on Up To Date (subscription required) and could not find anything. Corticosteroids, on the…

She’s been taking the drug since 2005 and knew since 2015 she should declare her medical use of it, but she just...didn’t?

after his urine test showed a banned substance he had accidentally consumed by eating bad meat.

You forgot John Kerry. 

It’s almost as if the police are intentionally placing themselves in potentially dangerous situations as a pretext to being allowed to shoot people.

When they go low and we go high they carve out the ground from under us.

I know she meant well, but I really hate this mentality that the high road is the ideal place to be.

As usual the truth is a complicated mess. I got stuck on the “Negro and not women” too. It seemed like SBA was saying she would never choose the Negro over the woman. I think her problem was that the 15th amendment granted only black men the right to vote. But she didn’t seem to consider that her mandate should…

If even 1% of Johnson’s voters defected from Hilary I’d be shocked. The Libertarian Party is just the Republican party for weed smokers and pedophiles. I knew lots of libertarians as a youth - every single one of them is a Trump Republican now. People become libertarians for about three reasons. First, they think that…

“Going high is the only thing that works,”

What about intersex people or those with atypical sex chromosomes (e.g. XXY)? Even biological sex isn’t binary. Scientifically speaking, Rowling and the TERFs are wrong.

Don’t know why you think their opinion matters since they aren’t trans. Your sentence makes as much sense as saying “I have several black friends that don’t believe the whole “Jewish” argument either.”

And the FOP is continuing to claim that the police announced themselves before breaking the door down, which would completely fly in the face of the no-knock warrant in the first place. 

Accountability. Something they’re just not used to nor will they ever get used to it because it seems as though a huge number of police join the forces specifically BECAUSE of that lack of accountability.

Basic fact: people will reasonably try to defend themselves during a no-knock warrant process, because how the fuck are they going to know those guys breaking in with guns are cops when they don’t announce it? Then you end up with injuries and loss of life, including on our precious widdle cop bodies.

So let me get this right, they’re all pissed off about body cams and having to take a drug/alcohol test if somebody gets shot.......

don’t blame me for your lack of self-control

The kind of person who wants to critically examine the ways in which particular works may have influenced their thinking (or the thinking of other children)? The kind of person who may be inclined to share those sorts of works with their own children, but doesn’t want to reinforce harmful, outdated tropes?  

Great article. Far too often when someone brings up that a particular artist is problematic for whatever reason, you’ll see this backlash reaction of like “Well what? Are we not allowed to like anyone who has done anything wrong?” And it’s bullshit. No, no one is telling you what you can and can’t like. What we’re…