For me, I don't think it's necessarily about getting gov't to pull out of the education game, but rather about getting them to recognize the effects that they have on the marketplace and exert more conscious control over it. Similarly, since Medicare and Medicaid make up the plurality of medical payments, when they…

Similarly, I feel confident ignoring anyone who chooses something at awful and inflammatory as "killallwhitepeople" as their username, because they have already tipped their hand that they are trolling.

I always thought those pregnancy tests were to make sure they didn't give you any drugs that would be potentially harmful to a fetus... how is that about parental control? Sorry, there's just a logic leap being made here that I'm not quite following.

Completely agree. My graduate school loans sit at 6.55%, while my undergrad loans sit at 2.25%, which happens to be the same rate that my credit union would give me a car loan at. Can I refinance those loans? Nope, but they've been sold to two different banks since I graduated, so apparently the government can sell my…

my husband and I meow back at our cat all the time. She mostly gives him a weird look, but will have a whole little kitty conversation with me. Frankly I think it's because he doesn't meow as well, but don't tell him I said that.

I think what the rape and they way they went on afterwards showed me is how bad their "normal" is. She went on as normal because that is normal to her... which is at least as fucked up as the rape itself.

that was totally it, but it just freaked me out because the whole thing was all so fast and so disgusting. Also getting "accidentally" felt up on the bus was such a regular thing that it seemed like a disaster waiting to happen.

I was referring to the numerous other Jezebel articles that have basically said that fat people are the last ones that society feels it's ok to discriminate against, in a bit of a tongue-in-cheek way. Like, hey, now atheists can join that group. Sorry if the humor didn't come across.

I'm rocking that strategy too. I think I tipped my hand when it was revealed that our wedding would be performed by a layperson and there would be no prayers, but we've never discussed the God issue directly.

So the upshot is that atheists and fat people are the ones that people still think it's ok to discriminate against?

A couple of years ago I found a lump in my breast. Now this has happened before and it was noncancerous, so while this always engenders a certain amount of worry but it wasn't a holy-fuck-freakout scenario. After a ridiculous amount of meaningless red tape (I told them I needed to schedule a mammogram, they made me…

Didn't we have all those conversations about 10 years ago? I think the topic's just been done to death already.

But Obama didn't have to distance himself from Clinton the way Hillary has to distance herself from him—he just had to say how he's nothing like Bush. The "hundreds" was hyperbole, but I think it's an issue that's about anyone running to replace a termed-out member of their own party.

But again, hasn't every candidate come off that way? Or does this have a bit of a women-can't-play-the-game-the-way-the-men-do to it? I'm not assuming, just genuinely asking—what makes this so much worse than the hundred other times that other (male) candidates have done the same?

I think what she was against was being the designated attack dog because she happens to be of the same sex as that particular opponent. Why should she have done what the Obama campaign wanted when she was still running against Obama at the time?

I agree with your assessment. After all, she was going to get attacked by her opponents, not because she's a woman but because she was their opponent. Given that fact, it would look less sexist for Hillary to attack her than for the men to attack her.

On our honeymoon, in Amsterdam, my husband and I had too much space cake (psst, if the woman at the shop tells you a slice per person, she's LYING, you need like 1/3rd of that). We were wandering around a cute little neighborhood waiting to come on, and when we finally did it hit us like a ton of bricks. We got…

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My first thought was that he read that Arthur Chu article, Your Princess is in Another Castle, and was basically showing us how awful it looked if a normal dude pulled the junk described in there (the Revenge of the Nerds rape scene, Steve Urkel, etc) without someone with an underdog scripted agenda behind it pulling…

I was also wondering whether the studio audience demographic is the same as the tv audience? Someone else mentioned that Fallon trends younger/more liberal, but I thought that studio audiences were mostly tourists eager to get on TV so it seemed like there might be a difference.