It’s true, the community was excellent and often the main draw. If i was having a bad day I could always jump into a thread and be made to feel like my encyclopedic knowledge of simpsons, archer, or arrested development quotes isn’t a waste of brain power. There are great people in the community here too but the…

You’re right kinja is much better, what with its ability to decide if someone is worthy of contributing or should be relegated to the grays. The other day there was an important topic on Jez and I wanted to ask a question because my daughter is going through something similar but I didn’t because why bother if you’re…

Give them credit for name/comment synergy?

Dental plan?

As in you’re willing to accept a lot of it?

When I was young I knew a kid who was jumped by gang members, he was beaten pretty bad. He was really deeply effected, his worldview rocked, and he went inward and was afraid of the world. After a little while he found support and started feeling better thanks to his new friends, skinheads. He focused on the fact they…

I know all politics is local and I’ve heard it all about him having to appeal to hardliners but fuck that no he doesn’t! But worse, he subscribes to the theory that strength means being a proud, aggressive asshole; see his relations with President Obama.

I also think the optics hurt Israel, because it looks like (relatively) big country vs. small territory. But that ignores so many important factors, like Iran’s agenda with Hamas.

Very true. The same way someone criticizing Israeli policy shouldn’t be labeled an anti-semite, we can’t let anti-semites use it as cover. Bigots love being given cover and exploit it endlessly.

Yeah, very few American Jews I know support Netanyahu. I don’t think anyone hurts Israeli fundraising or support in the states like Bibi. 

You’re right that it’s a bad reason to abandon feminism, but I think what she may be saying is it’s a reason she doesn’t feel welcome at events anymore. My wife took our daughter to a march in California, it was a big day and my wife was very excited to share that experience with her daughter. Until she was harassed…

I’ve read the entire thread (I think) and I think that as you have explained your thoughts further that you don’t come off as anti-marriage, but like you think, and correct me if I’m wrong, that marriage is neither feminist nor anti-feminist inherently, that it’s neutral, and the execution of it can tilt it in one…

I’m getting misty reading about your proposal. I think it’s because it takes me back to the beautiful moment when my wife, who was leaving her job at the time, looked me deep in the eyes and, as harps played in the ether, asked me, “should I apply for the COBRA plan or should we just do it already?”

Do you feel the same if both bride and groom have parents do it? My mom walked me just like my wife’s dad walked her, so I’m just curious because to us it was just a way of honoring the parents that had always been there for us. On the other hand it is funny that when you even consider subverting certain traditions it…

Starred for the Whitman line, it has been going through my head as I have read through the thread. Was going to post it but wanted to read first because I’ve learned that when I’m late to the party someone clever and faster has often beaten me to whatever I was going to say. Curse this site’s glut of clever, quality…

Is Gunn as great there as she is on Breaking Bad? She is terrific as Skyler White, even in a show full of great performances she has some amazing moments.

Acknowledging that it is completely different for different people, I would say yes, for some of us it does. I’m not saying it’s a constant struggle or the hardest part of the day, but there are also many times where it is not easy.

Looks like Suicide Squad 2 has a glut of options now!

That includes six years ago when he told his ex wife “I hope you get raped by a pack of (racist epithet)” right? Polansky is a piece of shit who should never work again, but just  because someone is less vile than Polansky doesn’t mean they’re not vile

My daughter is indeed awesome and, I would wager from talking to you, your son is as well. And my daughter never stood a chance because we were dropping her off and she was calling to her friend Iliana who didn’t hear her, by the third “Iliaaanaaaaaa!!” I was dying, especially because when another parent said “I…