I see these profiles and I wonder how those people ever managed to put their shoes on the corresponding feet. And yet somehow they have ten times as many visitors and messages on OkCupid as I do.

What a coincidence that the preference fairy herself happens to be young, thin, blonde-haired, blue-eyed, fair-skinned, and rather dainty to boot!

The rules of interracial (hetero-, cis-, monogamous) dating in the US, if I recall correctly:

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and suggest that if your physical "type" consists of "not black" then yes, you are being racist. Did you know that different black people can even have different physical types? Shocking! By all means though feel free to bring to life your most cherished fantasy of not fucking black…

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The actual study: http://goo.gl/qjhxv (http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0042593)

The thing is, I'm a white, not-yet-middle-aged man who's been fortunate enough to have never been poor, a rape survivor, lacking health insurance, or in need of help from Planned Parenthood, and even I have some semblance of a clue.

"In the name of" balancing a budget might slip by as correct on a technicality. Fiscal conservatism doesn't give two wet gassy turds about balancing the budget. It's really about cutting vital benefits to living people for the benefit of lower marginal income and long-term capital gains taxes for the investor class.…

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Yeah, I agree, and I'm well aware of the notion that advocating that abortion be "rare" tends to stigmatize it as a morally suspect choice. I think that's a big problem with turning "safe, legal, and rare" (with or without Oxford comma) into a kind of anthem or cliché without any underlying explication. It's too easy…

Or take your kidney. "Yeah, Charlie, Candy Mountain. It's a land of sweets and joy... and joyness!"

Is Minnesconsin anything like Pennsyltucky?

Followed by all the tax revenues that child may eventually contribute. I think this is a dangerous line of reasoning to pursue because it tends to lead to calculations about what sort of offspring are economically beneficial to the state, and that's a hair's breadth away from eugenics—should we encourage abortion more…

I'd actually be okay with abortion being safe, legal, and rare. Just like I'd be okay with quadruple-bypass heart surgery being safe, legal, and rare, or bone transplants safe, legal, and rare. Medical procedures suck, and if the need for them can be averted that's a win. The critical issue is that making the…

And then what happened?

You're falling for the common fallacy that abortions necessarily reduce the number of children. In many cases women get abortions because they don't feel ready to have a child at that time or in those circumstances, but then go on to have one or more children later. It's a good bet that a lot of those women wouldn't…

Yeah, I was joking about that. Complicated dyeing/layering/perming job vs. buzz cut, I could believe a lower barber/stylist bill for a man than for a woman (IF it's a different amount of work). Deodorant or dry cleaning? Puhleez.

I'm not positive that all the Founding Fathers would have claimed to believe in a divine Jesus, much less all the particulars of the Nicene Creed (didn't Jefferson rewrite the Bible?), but they at least acted open towards Jews and claimed to have no quarrel with "Musselmen" or Muslims. I'm not sure how much they even…

I should have added a <sarcasm> tag or two. If there were any chance she would actually go through with it I wouldn't advocate it, as contra the US Supreme Court and the State of Texas I don't actually advocate the execution of the mentally incompetent.