Boom seems to have misread, and keeps doubling down on the mistake.

So because that gay couple was denied a wedding cake by this bakery and its homophobic owners, they should have gone to one of the many other bakeries that wouldn’t have denied them service?

Family priest count?

Hope she demanded her pay up front.

Back when Giuliani was running his kids refused to endorse him or show up for him.

“...the destination to weather...”, perhaps? Totally understand how “detestation” made its way in, but hey, that’s conflating the building with the bigot, right?

Really just curious? I encourage you to check the starting salaries for housekeepers vs. engineers if no one’s answered that question for you.

The NYT routinely tries to put a human touch on obituaries for famous people.

The families don’t write the obituaries that appear in the NYT. They’re written by staff, are about notable people, and usually start off by letting us know what makes them notable.

Another factor that isn’t being discussed is age. If your a child running around, black, white or whatever your probably going to be alright. It your a middle aged man then it’s a whole other story. I agree race issues are inflamed right now, but age plays a role as well.

The Heiress is the perfect antidote to Melanie.

It’s not about being PC. It’s purely about considering someone’s feelings.

Scare quotes for just “feminism”, or “father” as well?

Now, now. Science is still trying to determine if it’s possible to be more tiresome than Lars.

How are you ever going to expect real change to happen if you always keep voting for the lesser of two evils though? It comes to making a short-term sacrifice for long-term gain.

...UT’s policy was to admit anyone in the top 10% of THEIR class, so disadvantaged students of color in poverty stricken areas would be on a level to their own classmates, not the privileged white kids from across the tracks. As long as said student of color was in the top 10% of their class, they would be in... With…

Exactly. It was a party. There were a lot of drunk people. There were probably other people who were incapacitated by drink, or close to it. Out of all of those drunk people, only the rapist found that an occasion for rape.

What is the basis for this statement? You seem to be assuming that all child abusers are preferential offenders who seek out children. But many are situational offenders, who take advantage of circumstances to abuse a child, without either seeking out children or abandoning their usual adult partners. Even in family…

Um, she did? She didn’t make the choice not to prosecute. And she successfully fought his custody suit (not filed until after he found he was being investigated for child abuse, btw).

She’s the sister of his children. He may not have considered himself her stepfather, she may even not have considered him her stepfather — but his kids damn sure thought of him that way.