Please use anybody but John Oliver to illustrate a point. I was a huge Daily Show/Colbert fan and loved the JO show at the start. Then I started seeing so many comments by seemingly knowledgeable people who said the pieces misrepresented the stories. I got a bit skeptical after researching some of them and agreeing…

Your co-worker is partially right. I’ve seen a lot of evidence to support that people have an innate need to be accepted, so they’re more likely to tailor written subjects to go with the grain as against it. Most people just want to be liked, and it shows in their opinions and actions. Look at how many things can…

So you are talking about critical thinking, yet blasting only one side of the political spectrum? Just sayin...

It’s amazing how often when you listen to intelligent people who have opposing opinions that they say things that give you pause, and sometimes cause you to change your own opinions. I absolutely love having my mind change because I know that I’m a little bit better informed. If I hear sound logic why my new opinion…

Yeah, that’s a grey area right there. The fact that she is fine with is decades later I guess makes this not bad, but only in retrospect. Shouldn’t be doing that stuff because it could go either way. Sober girls are the way to go.

Exactly. There’s a big difference between some rock star “not saying no” to an underage girl backstage vs drugging some girl so she can’t give consent at all. I really hope Cosby rots in jail. Drugging someone so they can’t consent at all (alcohol is technically drugging someone but at least they consent to the…

“But completely denying what is most definitely true?”

No kidding. It’s nuts when people get offended on behalf of the non offended, or feel that someone was victimized even though the ‘victims’ themselves don’t. There are many religious people who will tell you that premarital sex is a sin and makes you a bad person. Most people don’t feel like a victim if they have…

Yes. Yes they do. The vast majority that I’ve come across who aren’t overly into it have something in their past that messes with their desire to have sex. Very often they’ve had a horrible ex or two and they just develop a general distain for sex. Some had been sexually abused etc.

Do you understand the sheer hypocrisy of what you wrote? You said “He just didn’t listen that she didn’t want to have the baby. It had to be done” and grandma calmly said “It’s always whenever they want. You have the children whenever they tell you. They don’t ask you.”