It’s scary that we are all much more careful nowadays with being pregnant, yet the rate of autism continues to climb. My mom’s mom’s mom (my great grandmother) gave birth to 16 kids (in Eastern Europe) and I’m pretty sure she ate all kinds of things that would now be forbidden (meat, wine, maybe goat cheese) but all…

I hear Aimée Lutkin’s sadness regarding the endless questions she gets from others. I also understand the sadness she feels that her current life is assumed to be “less than” because she does not have a partner — and yet, there is a great deal she likes about her life. She does not view it as “less than”.

“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The…

“Trump, a former host of reality TV show The Apprentice, is surrounding himself with the 1%”

“Presidents have a right to do things in their spare time.”

“Can you explain to me how this happened overnight?”

First of all, she should have listened to him because he needed to talk. Second of all, none of this actually happened because she is a big liar and she made the whole thing up. Third of all, why should we worry about her safety but not his safety (if you think her feelings of fear are more important than his feelings…

I especially like “guilt-free fantasies of awful things happening to every single one of them”.

@Clutchman83 — you are stuck in the past. Your mental landscape is cluttered with the debris leftover from those decades when the USA was making progress towards racial harmony. Just because you saw black santas in a mall in the 1980s doesn’t mean it is okay now. Now is different. We now have the KKKs favorite…

“fast girls”

She believes that if she hits the wall with a hammer, then high paying industrial jobs will return to America’s heartland.

These people seem like the kind of people who, back in the 1920s and 1930, thought it was a great idea to vote for authoritarian rulers. I think it was Edward Jabolinski, in his history of the air war in World War II, who related the story of the German woman who shouted at Allied troops when they entered Frankfurt.…

“Their lack of discretion is embarrassing.”

We all need to work hard to be sure that a miscarriage of justice, such as this, does not happen again. President Trump will work hard to re-create the homophobic hysteria that allowed these women to go to prison. At both Federal and state levels, the current crop of Republican leadership will be appointing judges who…

Is Trump a hypocrite? Yes. Would he condemn in others what he himself does? Yes. So I disagree with “It seems odd for Trump to be worried by a scandal like Bridgegate when he’s sailed over so many others”. Trump allows himself scandals, but he doesn’t allow scandals among his underlings.

If we are going to bring back interment camps, then why not bring back lynching?

I am not apologizing for the teacher above, but I have a friend who teaches 8th grade in a school in the Bronx, and the children can be brutal. The children are at an age where they are trying to figure out how much they can push authority figures. They say nasty, horrific things to her constantly, and she has to try…

There are rewarded protestors on the right. In North Carolina, I know of at least two small construction firms who gave their employees a huge party in exchange for them putting out signs, first anti-LGBQT and then later pro-Trump. So there is a sort of paid protestor in this country. They work for the right.

To use an old term from the 1930s, all of the white people who voted for Trump are “objectively” allies of Stormfront. It doesn’t matter that a lot of Trump supporters claim they are not racist. It doesn’t matter that many Trump supporters have no direct affiliation with the Klu Klux Klan or Stormfront. The whites…

Michelle Obama is the obvious choice, and I’m sure she’s already thinking about it.