His father was from Mexico... where he was the VP of a large chemical company, that allowed him the means to ship young Bret off to an elite boarding school in Massachusetts. You know, standard immigrant story.

I cannot speak to the experience of the VA, but anyone who’s defending the current Health Care system in this country has clearly never spent 90 minutes on hold trying to make an appointment with a doctor, just to get a referral for a specialist who doesn’t have any openings for 6 weeks.

Yup. As one of my professors in journalism school used to stress, the onus of comprehension lies with the writer, not the reader. So if you’re getting that level of pushback, that’s your bad, not anybody else’s.

“some V.A. type nightmare”

What annoys me the most about this column - and the works of Stephens and David Brooks in particular - is their insistence on couching their bullshit purely as impartial advice for Democrats. It’s always “the party will lose elections if they don’t say/do this thing that I believe in” instead of “the party should say/…

Finding a black friend is too much work, now they’re their own black friend.

I don’t know why so many people are looking for Never Trump Republicans to suddenly seek some great absolution for their lifetime of evildoing simply because they profess to not like Trump. They’re still exactly the same arrogant, disingenuous pricks they were before; that’s what they’re paid to be. It’s literally…

Fwiw, my late father was from Mexico. My mother was a refugee. I grew up in the D.F. I speak Spanish.

One thing I hate about writers is when they write something that causes a swift and broad backlash, and their defense is “You misunderstood what I meant,” as if that is a valid defense for a person whose job it is to convey ideas to third-parties via the written word. I write for a living, and if someone who is…

No they are celibate, only the Nyingma school in Vajrayana Buddhism can marry and is not celibate. I myself studied with the Karma Kagyu but we had Nyingma visitors. 

She also gained almost 10 points in the polls, while Biden dropped 10 points. He’s starting to show vulnerability, which is going to make a lot of his supporters more anxious. 

But according to that article the Korean public isn't happy his sentence was so short and want to change the law. I mean, I guess you could argue a point that they were apparently fine with it for all this time, but societies change. Shit, the US STILL hasn't properly dealt with slavery!

This happens from time to time on far-right political blogs too. Turns out that trying to judge where the line is between "offensive" and "so offensive we have to blame someone" is hard to identify, especially for a$$holes. 

Fired for being too Barstool.

But you asked “is cheese vegetarian” though...

Tonight showed how the only reason Bernie was able to stand out in 2016 was because no one else even bothered to stay in the race for the nomination against Hillary. So he got all the attention from people and the media looking for an alternative nominee by default.

If they use vegetarian rennet either from thistle or a GMO fungus extract, it is vegetarian. 

From a strictly logistical / economic standpoint, bringing back half of the world’s population may be even worse than losing half of the worlds population. five years later it looks like society has more or less adjusted. There was probably a lot of physical damage done to buildings, infrastructure, commercial and…

I had the thought watching Endgame, and had it again reading this review, that the MCU has such a deep roster of good actors who are very comfortable in their roles and playing variations of the relationships between these characters that the best possible outcome for the series is that the bad guys fade away…

So half of the world was dead for five years—food production cut by half, transportation system collapsed, mass depression; etc.—and the moment they’re brought back to life these parents let their children go on a field trip to another continent? And Europe’s tourist industry is just up and running again? Business as…