Exactly. My son was a “baby” to me and my ex from the time I first saw him as a little inch-long pea on a sonogram photo, but only because he was very much loved and wanted. The love is what imbued him with “babyness,” not any inherent quality.

I knew it wasn’t going to be that, because one of the reasons I really like her is that she was the narrator of the Kindertransport documentary Into the Arms of Strangers (which won the Academy Award the year it came out), and one of the things she did was read a few lines from one of my mother’s letters to her…

It’s like the I Love Lucy episode where Ricky and Fred cooked rice!

You mean you think you might call a black reporter who was there reporting the story the “n” word?

What gives you the idea that they were “talking shit” on her son? They were reporting the story.

Wasn’t “the heart wants what it wants” his excuse for going after his partner’s adopted daughter?

I think it’s called being polyamorous.

She spelled her name Sylvia Rivera, not Silvia.

Interesting that three different transphobic trolls have now thought it necessary to announce their belief that being attracted to trans women is, in fact, “perverted.” I suspect that this all represents self-loathing, given that porn involving trans women is one of the most popular genres out there., especially in…

Being pardoned doesn’t necessarily mean that you didn’t do it in the first place

I’m sure you’re an expert.

I just read the description listing the kinds of porn he had, not any underlying report.

I don’t think it’s that unusual to be conflicted about this sort of thing. I feel a great deal of sympathy (and empathy) for Roman Polanski, who had the most indescribably horrific childhood imaginable — never mind the murder of his wife — but I don’t think for a moment that that excuses him for what he did.

Pardon me for being slightly skeptical, given that the list of materials supposedly proving his perverted sexual desires includes photos of “transsexuals.” Nice to know that being attracted to trans women is inherently perverted.

It would be the most unsuccessful genocide ever. However, nothing Israel has done even remotely fits the internationally accepted definition of genocide. Human rights violations, yes; genocide — no. More people have been killed in Syria in each of the last few years than all Palestinians who’ve been killed (in combat…

Yes, a fanatic ultra-Orthodox lunatic stabbed a bunch of people. He’s in prison.

There are Arabs who participate in Pride in Israel. It’s not a “Jews only” event.

Others call it pinklying: the assumption that (1) anything favorable to LGBT people in Israel is completely insincere, and (regardless of whether it’s directed by the government) is part of a Machiavellian scheme by the Israeli government to distract people across the world from the government’s bloodthirsty crimes…

Your cartoonish view of the world allows you to believe anything negative about Israel, no matter how ludicrous. I’m sure if somebody claimed that it’s Israel’s policy to harvest the organs and drink the blood of Palestinian babies, you’ll believe that too.

I’m pretty sure that this is as fake as that “deliberate flooding” story from a while back. Or most stories that blame anything bad that happens on demon Israel. http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-C…