Thanks for speaking up about the bullshit you’ve faced. The people who are jumping on his eye are pissing me off so badly. Who. Gives. A fuck.

I’m firmly against the draft. But if my guy friends had to register for Selective Service, I should have had to, as well. (At this point, since I’m over 45, I doubt I will ever have to register for the draft. And since I’m over 45 *and disabled*, I wouldn’t actually get drafted. So the point is moot. But 18-year-old…

More to the point: why is Obama silent?

You are in fact the one who is wrong, since “Reindeer Are Better Than People” is objectively the best song in Frozen.

Among other things, I think it is erroneous to assume that the only misconduct that could be involved by an officer in the shooting of a civilian would need to be race based. I’m not comfortable looking at a situation where an innocent man was mistakenly approached by a police officer and who was shot and killed…

If I were Melania my condition would be that I didn’t have to be in the room.

Can’t help but notice that the pipeline’s original path - which was characterized as posing a threat to local drinking water - crossed a whole lot less of those blue squiggly lines than it does now with the new route.

counterpoint: i’m going to see the shit out of it

Just FYI for those who for some stupid reason or another wonder why they’re protesting.

She’s not exactly trying to deny that aspect! I think it’s hilarious.

If it was some western mother sending tweets from her child’s perspective about waiting for Santa Clause or something else banal no one would bat an eye, but because people don’t want to comprehend the suffering this child is going through they’ll try and find any reason to dismiss the source.

Yeah it’s like Groundhog Day; just because that little bugger sees his shadow and there happens to be a few more weeks of winter doesn’t mean that it’s not a stupid way to come to that decision.

It’s pretty astounding how much of a non story this is. I’m sure it’s because of the holiday weekend, and of course not totally unexpected, but Castro was one of the most influential political figures of the 20th century.

Convenient that the US is one of two countries that has failed to sign the United Nations Convention on Rights of the Child, which specifies in Article 28 that States Parties recognize the right of the child to education.

How do we help them?

I think this is unprecedented. Mary Todd Lincoln (and the kids) stayed in the White House during the Civil War, when the capital itself was often under siege and it was a struggle to keep enough of the Maryland roads and the Potomac ports secure so that the residents didn’t starve to death. And Civil War aside DC…

+1,000,000 and counting

Man, people sure have a strange way of expressing their economic insecurity.

“join the fight to stop dishonoring the president”, declare people who spent 8 years dishonoring the president.

Are you attempting to draw a causal correlation between a handful of people tweeting death threats and the minimum necessary security required for any president?

The “presidential retreat” is always subject to extraordinary security concerns. This is primarily why presidents that don’t behave as egomaniacs locate them…