President, unelect, Gannon

Douglass isn’t dead! Look, here he is on YouTube with fellow alive person Thomas Jefferson:

...was one guy who was only ever tangentially related to the Rebellion/Resistance anyway?

There is a very good reason for why you would hate the movie if you liked the book (from Wikipedia):

To be honest, I could really go for having a fight with an Internet Stranger over something that doesn’t actually matter.

If we’re going to use the Emperor/Darth Vader analogy, Bannon would be the Emperor and Trump would be Vader. Although I’m not going to complain if either one gets thrown into a reactor core.

That movie ended badly but the Rebels did destroy both Death Stars.

Purely as a sanity saving measure, keep in mind that that survey results are based on 1,201 people. That is one half of one one-thousandth of a percent (0.0005%) of the adult US population.

In the Senate there are a lot of things that require “unanimous consent” so even one senator saying they don’t give consent stops that business. That can be circumvented but it wastes time.

I had a pretty similar experience--girls getting better grades, more girls in gifted and AP/IB classes, etc--but the way smart girls were talked about was different from how smart boys were talked about. Girls were “serious students” while boys were “geniuses”.

Starve the national government of a huge % of their income, which would force red states that rely on that funding to keep what little remains of their social welfare nets in place to really reconsider whether they should keep being assholes; maybe then they would come to the table to negotiate in sanity, rather…

Thanks for pointing this out. I plan to bring this up with my heavily-into-WoW mother in law.

Surely some Jezzie has connections at Netflix...

Make a biopic happen and I will give you a sizeable portion of all of my money.

Of course it’s arbitrary; human-imposed dichotomies usually are. But the fact that the human/non-human line is arbitrary does not change the impact of where we choose to draw that line.

One problem with viability as the marker is that it is constantly being pushed back. So where today “viability” is around 24 weeks, in 10 years that may be at 20 weeks, then earlier and earlier until you’ve run out of pre-viability. It may be a long time down the line but I don’t think we should pin our rights to an…

Sherrod Brown’s numbers:

But that’s the message of the article: OK you showed up this time, are you willing to show up next time too?

The sign pictured isn’t “bitchery”. It’s asking the women that you claim have now been galvanized whether they’re willing to take the next step. And that’s the point of the article: it’s fine that people came out for this march but we don’t yet know if they’ll show up for the next one.

I think there’s an argument to be made for specificity of language. People (all people, as far as I can tell) have a tendency to use terms more broadly than is really warranted and end up implying things like all women have uteri/all uteri belong to women which if nothing else are factually incorrect.