What is truly amazing is that Christie still has a 17% approval rating. It’s a good way to think about Trump’s roughly 37% approval rating; there are people who so greatly identify with the outside figure who is not the “usual politician” that they will cling to these figures with such great force that even the most…

Any other lapsed Catholics here? I literally started reading into Jesuit catholic guidance 2 days ago, thinking I may be able to start reconciling my beliefs and the Vatican. He is an advisor to pope Francis. I am just so bummed.

Between the LDS women with their paid leave and pants and Australia standing up to the Catholic Church on behalf of sexual assault victims, I’d say it was a pretty good day to believe in Jesus. If you’re into the kinds of things the gospels describe him as preaching and ignore most of his followers’ teachings. 

You can, but you basically have to go directly to the farm to get it, and the regulations vary by state. Some places it’s not legal to sell it, so die-hards barter for it. Raw milk is tasty, but Louis Pasteur is a famous science hero for a reason. Raw milk can be dangerous, and is especially so here in the US where…

Well what exactly is this interview? Is she going to make him look like a fucking idiot on TV, or she going to parrot all his points and nod along? If she actually challenges him and shows him to be full of shit, that might actually be interesting.

A lot of orchestras hold “blind auditions”: hopefuls play behind a screen, with the process arranged so that no hint of their gender presentation or race reaches the panel. These orchestras suddenly found themselves hiring people other than white men - even though they’d honestly believed they hired on merit alone.

I think there are 2 groups of people:
I think the ones you speak of are the top level people like the politicians and the fine folks over at Breitbart, Hannity, etc who know in their little heart of hearts that they wanted to get hurt Obama by any means possible. “the ends justify the means”, and now that the tables…

I vote for show of dominance. My abusive ex used to hold my hand all the time, but he used it to “steer” me or yank me around to where he wanted me to be. (Also the hand in the back to shove me when I wasn’t moving fast enough for him.) And no one else knows it is going on; they just see a sweet, close couple. It…

Maybe I can clear some things up:

Well, technically toddlers can’t help it either. That prefrontal cortex is still developing. They don’t have impulse control yet. Still annoying but not intentional.

One day, the kids will see the movie and ask, “Did it really happen like that?” And we will shake our heads sadly and explain that, no, it was so much stupider.

I’m glad they dropped the BMI thing and switched to just confirming health with a doctor. There are some people who really are just tall and skinny build-wise, while for others they’d have to do something unhealthy to be that thin. BMI is so bad. By BMI I am nearly obese (or am, depending on some people’s…

Hillary: I take full responsibility for the mistakes my campaign made. Also, there were external forces that shifted the final vote.

Zip it!

French press tried “it’s not shocking, it doesn’t matter, in France we are more evolved than you puritans” but still published them like “look at her TITS!” So fuck these people. Humans should be allowed to exist without being fapped over.

And against the Japanese in the US during WWII.

I actually agree with this point. Having lost family members to the Holocaust—of one branch of the extended family, only two individuals survived the camps—I know that there is no rational conversation on this topic. The horror and the grief and the rage are so immense (and should be) that it seems obscene to impose…

I disagree that his use of the term was misguided. If we’re working from this definition of concentration camp:

You’re providing health. This is (unintelligible). Here, everything, pretty much everything you do in government, involves heart, whereas in business, most things don’t involve heart.