No matter what happens with Trump specifically, he’s done us a great public service by highlighting the ugly, significant section of the American voting population that would seriously vote for whatever he’s for.

A start would be to make every play reviewable.

What grade-A #1 all-natural 100% pure level of self-loathing does she have to have, to work that hard to try to integrate into a political party that despises her, her heritage and her faith that much?

Yup, he’s trolling. He’s going to hate-speech and hand-wave and blap-bah-dap-bap-bap-boom-generic-Trump-sound-effect his way to the nomination, then concede and withdraw his candidacy with like a day and a half to go in a tour-de-force speech declaring everyone who actually believed his schtick a loser. His whole…

Today, in “heh, ok, I’m an asshole” - until I saw the picture in this article, I actually thought EoDM are a death metal band.

I’m nigh-certain the majority reaction to Saba’s wardrobe is “how dare she disrespect the flag that way, you don’t literally wrap yourself in the flag like that”. Or something similarly tone-deaf.

Yyyyyep, I’m starting to agree with Bill Maher: I’m doubting whether Ben Carson really even was a neurosurgeon and really separated those twins.

I admit to being completely ignorant about women’s MMA, to the point that I don’t know how to look up the answer to this question: has Rousey always fought fighters that were generally about her own build and weight or smaller? In recaps of matches it always looked like she was so much bigger and stronger than her…

Sure does seem like a lot of people with busted relationships in this comments section.

I love that in this article, Trump appears at the very end... AS THE VOICE OF REASON.

I noticed the other day that he still doesn’t have Secret Service protection. Also noticed that he’s lagging behind Carson now.

Good piece. I hope teen and tween girls get to read this too, so that they can learn from an early age that they have a world of possibilities and a lifetime of their own choices they can make, rather than being locked into simply being some vapid suburban breeder. I wish more people were like Solnit.

Obviously we’re dying of the stress of being constantly told we’re bad, we say the wrong things, we buy the wrong stuff, we make it harder for other races and ages to live in peace or get what they deserve, we’re wrong about everything and everything is our fault.

Thank you so much for this! I hadn’t seen it before - will go read up on it now.

“Hillary Clinton is running for president of the United States. She has to come up with ways to claim what she wants to happen to really happen,” said Goonathilaka.

Hm, let’s see what you’d think of this phrasing:

Senator?

He should do counterprogramming during the debate, and have a 3-hour special introducing his running mate. He’ll come down an escalator again, and his veep can come down the stairs.

How about a viral black-dot-on-my-extended-middle-finger campaign to raise awareness about the scourge of slacktivism?

It’s almost as if a system of government that was designed in the late 18th century, to govern a collection of about 3 million people along one coast, doesn’t scale to a nation of 325 million people.