Well, I think she is apologizing for allowing herself to be styled with a big afro, which is not her natural hairstyle. Who knows what the intent of the original photoshoot was - to make her look black or to make her look like Annie. Obviously she is not at fault for what she did at 15 or for being featured on Black…

Yeah, I have a forestry background. States, like PA, that have massive deer overpopulation basically have no forest regeneration.

Seems to ignore the fact that most of these immigrants were from countries France colonized. If they didn’t want anything to do with the North African Muslim countries, then perhaps they shouldn’t have taken them over.

I was shocked when applying to jobs in Spain that I had to have a photo on my CV.

Yeah, maybe having lived in VT and ME, hunting is a totally normal thing to me, even though I don’t do it myself. Someone saying “OMG, he HUNTS!!!” like it makes him a horrible person is weird.

I have mixed feelings. I mean, he obviously has something diagnosable, it is clearly a mental health issue, and many of us here suffer from them. I think refusing to talk about the obvious issue can be a way of shaming mental health. If someone was hospitalized for cancer or something, I don’t think there would be…

Poor Luke.

Like, it is getting worse. I feel like the media has finally accepted that he is really going to be President, and no longer accompany the words “President-elect Trump” with awkward pauses or sighs. They are treating it as real and now I have to accept it too.

As an environmentalist, I would just like to point out that swamps serve important ecological functions and are a great source of biodiversity.

Yes, my reaction to this was “at least he is smart and competent”. My bar for expectations for cabinet appointments is lower than I ever thought possible.

No, but having served in the US Senate, and being a constitutional law professor, I bet he had a pretty good understanding of the separation of powers, etc.

As the parent of a white six-year-old girl, I can’t imagine the stress of that for her and the stress of that for her parents. I feel like before I would have looked at that picture with some sense of the momentous occasion, but now it is just pure horror. I would like to think I would be that brave but I don’t know…

Once people are convinced that media is biased, they are not going to listen. No idea.

I am sure it is different in different places, but this pretty much describes the few people from my high school on Facebook who were vocal Trump supporters.

Oh, I know you were serious. I was just emphasizing that I was being absolutely seriously in blaming Rupert Murdoch. Normally that would seem like hyperbole, but it is the truth.

New Hampshire sent an all-female delegation to the House and Senate for the first time, so that is something too.

Seriously, I personally blame Rupert Murdoch for a lot of what is wrong in our country today.

God, this is going to make listening to Trump on the news for the next four years that much more painful.

I have mixed feelings - not wanting to downplay the horror of what as happened, but a couple of weeks ago the Republicans were soul searching and wondering how they went wrong, and then because the polls were off a couple of percentage points in a few key states, all of a sudden the Democrats have gone completely off…

I think it varies by region, but judging from the few high school acquaintances on Facebook who were big Trump fans, they got college degrees but they were crappy degrees and, I hate to say, they were generally were the stupid ones in high school. I went to an upper middle class school where almost everyone went to…