He was used to that vitriol whilst a private citizen. Racism isn't anything new to black people in the Americas. I think it shocked white people, who thought the presidency ought to be treated with more respect. The reality is that race and racism are in the foundation of the Republic. Unless we have a time machine,…

For all the hate, vitriol, subtle and overt racism that was aimed at this man over the last eight years, did he not handle it with uncommon grace and dignity? I never asked President Obama to be a perfect President, such a thing is an impossibility. But he played the long game, never panicked, never showed fluster,…

As great as "Senior Year" Obama is, I love "Dad" Obama the most

One thing that really gets under my skin is that anti-choice activists frame pro-choice advocates as solely women. I’m a man and I’m passionately pro-choice. And I’ve actually had anti-choice folks ask me why I care.

Can we also get a shout out to Dahlia Lithwick and her sharp, comprehensive SCOTUS coverage? For years she has done a great service by distilling frequently dry and convoluted supreme Court arguments for Slate and I think the internet is a better place because of it.

Slate’s in depth coverage of this case and of Clarence Thomas’s first utterance in a decade has been fantastic, like C-SPAN with drama!

I was listening to the transcripts being read on NPR last night and I started getting emotional because they were just taking that asshole from Texas and their conservative counterparts on the SCOTUS to task. They are being fierce as fuck.

Read the entire Slate piece, it is fantastically done. These women are total badasses and had absolutely zero patience for Keller. I will add that Breyer’s moment in the sun was pretty spectacular as well. (emphasis mine)

well, maybe if it was easier for women to take care of this, they might not feel like they have to announce it all the time. When I had my kid I had a job where I had a schedule that allowed me enough alone time to take care of this, but in graduate school I had an office mate who just had to be blunt about where she…

Oooh, oooh, here’s a good one: college majors or choice of school. Not permanent, per se, but certainly really formative and often troublesome to correct later. People are always ranting about how millennials will regret taking degrees in Interpretive Instagram etc. so why not just have a old white man decide for you?…

We shouldn’t even be having this conversation. If memory serves, the decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey determined that states could pass laws restricting abortion, as long as it didn’t place “undue burden” on women. I think at this point, there’s plenty of evidence that “undue burden” has been placed, time and…

Word. As a mother of two children, I can think of nothing more “fiscal” than having kids. They cost a shit ton of money and it’s something that should be my choice.

The person wearing the "good guy" vest?

Here is how the question was phrased. Again, I think we need to be fair — we are the ones who need to understand the nuance, if anyone:

I stopped working in women’s healthcare years ago. There are a million reasons why- and I just burned out. The abortion clinics get the very worst of it, but as we can tell from the full on assault on women’s rights and healthcare the GOP is spearheading, it’s not just abortion. Most women get their healthcare from…

Yeah, there’s no war on women. There’s just a complete and utter disregard for women’s lives, health, and freedom.

John Oliver did an outstanding piece over this on Sunday. I lost my shit when the doctor, who cashed out his life savings to move his now shuttered womens clinic to a new location, is again under threat because Alabama wants to make it illegal to operate such an establishment within 2,000 feet of a school. The…

The other day I got a hand gun to protect my kids, you know? And I’m really happy because it is SO important for them to be safe.

I wonders if he remembers that there was an armed security at Columbine during the shooting. The guard did not stop it despite his gun. Amazing, huh?