It’s like these folks came out of the Rust Belt to vote against their own self-interests in order to burn some other disadvantaged folks that they thought were getting a better shake.

We half-joked about moving to Israel. We’re not joking any more. I’m a lawyer. My job qualifications are tied to being in America. If I leave, I will have no marketable skills.

I woke to my neighbors cackling on the street about “making America great again” and walked down the street to my subway stop and saw a swastika and the words “sig heil” graffiti-ed on a shop window. The world has changed. The petulant man children of white America have shown that when it counts, they will not show…

First, I love your name. Donatello is my favorite. Second, I agree.

What I’ll remember of Janet Reno is that she was willing to make fun of herself. Good trait.

A convict in a potato sack who’s a gifted acrobat escapes the dragon attack at Helgen by wall-running a crumbling tower and a mountainside, prances through a bandit ambush, assaults a hunter, steals his horse, bends the horse into a catapult that launches him precisely to Riften’s docks, punches the first guard in the…

I prefer to moisten my toasted sandwich with a fine mist of salted butter. Cuts way down on the crumbs, and leaves me with a post-meal glossy shine.

it’s just a picture of legs that cuts to an image of a man standing in a burning house and he has a goat head and his eyes are the black of the void and then it cuts back to an image of legs with paint on them and then it’s the goat headed man and he’s closer to the foreground and I can smell sulfur and then it cuts…

Teachers are given training to restrain students (especially special ed teachers) and they’re told by their unions not to use the techniques for the fear of being sued into the ground. even when they get attacked by students theyre told not to defend themselves because the students injuries can trump the teacher’s…

What possible “proof” can Trump be presenting this afternoon to undermine 7 different people’s claims over a stretch of 35 years?

I apparently hate myself so I did read it, and was really disturbed by the fact that part of their reasoning was that Hillary is harmful to women because she has defended rapists. As an attorney, I find this to be very dangerous thinking. It is funny how the same people who obsess over the 2nd amendment somehow forget…

I’m tired of my Facebook feed getting cluttered with false equivalency. “Both candidates are bad, can we get a do over? Lol!”

We don’t need to hear from both sides if one side is batshit crazy and their stance is indefensible. This is how Republicans are winning and manipulating the system. This is done for the sake of “good television,” and Trump supports get to go on the air and shout out talking points and memes to reinforce the “I hate…

Technically, yes. And if they get to the point where they are making big donation or advertising money, companies owning those characters might go after them too.

not a single person deserves the kind of treatment she received

Bingo. We’ve actually hit on that point in down-thread discussion. (I do not in the least begrudge you for not reading it all.)

But what if the kids are, like, super-annoying, and you don’t want them around any more? Sort of like how if you have a car with a whole bunch of mechanical problems that you’re sick of dealing with, you’ll sometimes just park it in a random location and leave it unlocked with the keys on the seat and let nature take…

Finally I can leave my kids in the back with the windows rolled up and doors locked without some snarky white knight coming and breaking my window for the fourth time.

More than kind of, but: I think the piece makes the context pretty clear, if accurately reported. Pie was thrown. Then words were spoken. Then Johnson started throwing punches. For the most part neither getting pied nor getting verbally assaulted are considered justifications for starting a fist-fight, and if the…