I think that’s just called “dating lots of people”. The difference is that in this other type of non-monogamous relationship, you have a main committed relationship somewhat parallel to a traditional monogamous pairing, but this is not the only or main person you sleep with, in a way mutually agreed upon by all…

Right, he’s not writing for anyone else but his admirers who absolutely love trying to reclaim Dr. King’s message for themselves. “Tagged himself in” is the right description because smart, decent people will not open a channel for that. Twitter makes the irrelevant seem falsely relevant.

The hair at 2:44 held on with rings!

Yes, the foolishness of it is a given. Also, the jackassery.

There is already case law indicating that Confederate symbols may be prohibited by schools; see this example: https://educationlaw.org/featured-caselaw/5629-hardwick-v-heyward-2013-us-app-lexis-5855-4th-cir-march-25-2013

Not asking for that At All. I’m saying that normally, a kid looking for attention with a rude t-shirt deserves to be ignored rather than given what he wants. However, in this case, it is easy to prohibit the shirt because of the legal precedent which clarifies that freedom of expression in school does not include…

In response both to you and the gray comments, we are so far from “Marxism” it’s not even funny; we have four decades of steadily increasing wage inequality, 28 “right to work” states (the opposite of what the slogan claims), an ongoing and successful campaign against union organizing; we have full time workers in…

Sorry, not buying it. We have a flourishing, entrenched capitalist system here to the extent that we can’t even continue Dodd-Frank or reinstitute certain portions of the Glass-Steagall act. Nothing even close to your fantasy is coming true; it is that much less realistic than Trump being President. Come fetch me when…

Just to underscore what you’re saying with the relevant lines from the Wikipedia summary: “Several cases have arisen from the modern display of the Confederate flag. Courts applying the “disruption” test under Tinker have held that schools may prohibit students from wearing clothing with Confederate symbols.” The…

To pick one example, universal pre-k would have an enormously positive impact on early childhood education, on the labor force, and the economy in general, long-term. There is literally no chance that one left-leaning rep out of the 435 is going to cause the downfall of capitalism in America.

The odds of any of this happening in our lifetimes is nearly zero, so I will be happy to support the universal pre-kindergarten and single-payer health care.

I didn’t get all the subtleties of the references, but the main takeaway I had was: look at this horrifying trauma we as a society are accepting as normal! The worst possible things happen, like the white supremacist assault on a church - a church! - and most of the country glibly rolls along tolerating violent racism…

Her “way” is by dying her hair platinum blonde and being snarky, and her audience loves this because they have an intellectual inferiority complex, given the paucity of facts and good arguments on their side of any controversy.

But they don’t, David, or they would support H1B visas being granted more often, and a pathway to permanent citizenship created that way. They do not want this because they don’t want non-white immigrants, period, no matter how smart, educated, successful.

All of your ancestors had a college education, I see. Impressive!

Not to mention that bilingual children gain tremendous advantages in learning, and changes to the brain that even protect against the onset of dementias in later life. Not that I am expecting the Lahren crowd to attend much to scientific research.

Sometimes I think she starts these complaints in order to stay in the headlines when her own music isn’t getting the same reception. But that’s because she makes a different kind of music. It’s not going to be easy to have mainstream success and do what she does. I wish Banks would crank out a few easy hits mixed in…

Agreed that Cardi spoke the truth and I love her, but I can’t ever dislike Banks even if the truth is that she has a lot of internal conflict and is always starting shit with people for attention. She too is a genius of a different kind. She walks a different path and it’s not easy. I wish she didn’t feel the need to…

I don’t know, I think she’s a genius who had different training than an Ivy-league educated poet.

I don’t think that’s true of her - in other interviews she has been very clear about celebrating the uniqueness of and African roots of Caribbean culture. I think she doesn’t call herself Black because she assumes that when people know she has Caribbean roots, they should understand African heritage is part of that,…