Agreed. I also wonder how much of it is blackmail- people afraid to come forward because skeletons they don’t want expose even if it’s not anything as awful as pedophilia. For example, fear of being outed even as recently as 10-15 years ago, or having substance abuse or mental health issues exposed. I also wonder how…

Yeah, we know that those rules exist.  The point is the hypocrisy.  The rules are good, and we should keep them.  It’s Trump and Pence who want to personally benefit from the rule while admonishing poor and vulnerable people.

Cheer up. I see no screening for meetings with Miller, Kellyanne or...well, any of the Cabinet. Let’s not let Perfect be the enemy of Good.

I spend at least five minutes every day in a joyful fantasy in which Betsy DeVos and Karen Pence are trapped in a pit full of only-slightly-venomous scorpions...the kind that can sting you painfully all day without really inflicting any harm. Then, at night, it’s time for the lemon juice.

Here’s an actual government conspiracy. [New York]

You’ve identified the key point here. There is this neat trick in discourse around race issues (in America, at least...I have no expertise to speak on other nations) where racist actions/attitudes/polices are denied to exist until the moment when they can no longer be hidden or denied, but at that moment they are…

Yeah, this is where I remind people that, as someone on the high-functioning end of the autism spectrum and depression, we need to stop putting racism in the “mentally-ill” bag. Nobody’s objecting to mental illness here. They’re objecting to Ms. Cooper’s racism. And while there can be overlap between racist beliefs…

When Nixon and LBJ are the positive comparisons, you are really hitting a new level of awful.

Yeaup. The core thesis seems to be, “through sheer grit, determination, and British stoicism, Catherine has managed to overcome the fact that she is a banal social climber with no personality or genuine human emotional range” coupled with a little dose of, “sure, she’s not one of Us by birth, but look how much better…

sigh.

As a hardcore NSYNC fangirl when I was 14, umm... objectively, I think in hindsight the Backstreet Boys are the better musical option.

John Oliver had a doctor (I believe in Texas) say he did something like that. He would go over the so-called research regarding the drawbacks of having an abortion, and say that a) these were not backed up by scientific evidence and/or b) they were the same drawbacks as continuing the pregnancy. Another cool thing I…

So then can we pass a low requiring all gun seekers to be forced to listen to the screams of gunshot victims and have X-rays of gunshot wounds described to them by a physician?

Here’s an alternative view: this policeman has a position with a lot of power (e.g. the ability to arrest) and he used this power illegally to cover up one of his illegal and potentially deadly mistakes. He should be arrested, punished, and blacklisted from working in this industry for life.

Tough choice. On the one hand, Mitch McConnell has been easily the most reprehensible person in politics for the last 10 years. On the other hand, McGrath doesn’t line up 100% with my vision of what I think a liberal should be, so...

Anyone who can take the Senate floor away from that evil turtle is good enough for me.  I don’t care if she’s Manchin’s long lost twin and won’t hang with the democrats on key votes. For now, just unseat that asshole. 

Dont put her in jail...make her pay for 20 students to go to college every year for the next 10 years. Not the Aunt Becky scholarship where she gets to say she’s doing something good or gets a tax right off. Just cutting a check to said school to cover the costs.  If she goes to jail then my tax dollars are paying for…

Why don’t you google, “men get richer after divorce,” there are thousands of articles and studies going back 40 years showing that men get richer through divorce while women get poorer. “Divorce makes men - and particularly fathers - significantly richer. When a father separates from the mother of his children,…

I am fast coming to the conclusion that it’s not just that women are disregarded and disrespected, I think we are actively hated and this reveals itself through the legal system over and over. 

I neither have nor want children and even I see how US society simultaneously fetishizes families and despises parents. It’s colossally fucked up.