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,…

Just because you don’t agree with it doesn’t make it irrelevant, dude.

Someone needs to sit me down and explain it to me, too. I don’t get it. I don’t think Killer Mike said anything wrong. I don’t think Bernie said anything wrong. And like, yeah he’s an old white man, and we’ve had a lot of old white men. Hillary would be different, because she’s an old white woman. Technically Bernie…

The linked article says the confidentiality agreement contains a provision allowing Constand to speak to law enforcement about Cosby assaulting her in Pennsylvania in 2004, but he’s arguing that now that she lives in Canada she didn’t have to cooperate when PA authorities re-opened their investigation, so her…

There are already so many mechanism built into academia and the peer-review process to weed out bad idea and call conclusions into question, that it must be infuriating to clear all of those hurdles, publish your research, and then have a blogger with no expertise in your given field tell you how shitty you are for…

Like come on, why is this question being approached this way?

It was in the new scientist a couple of years back. If you aren’t able to pass your DNA on any further then in most cases you are a drain on the local resources.

But why do we have menopause at all? It’s not the norm in the animal kingdom although humans aren’t the only example. They are questioning whether there was something particularly adaptive about the fact that women get menopause. “Post-reproductive lifespan” sounds bad. But they are really just pointing out that this…

So, no president has run in order to effect change in the country and in the world, ever? They run for president for the love of the game? So, for example, Grant had no desire to repair the country he tore down. He just wanted to check the next box after supreme commander of Union forces? Same for say, Truman or…

This is a well-written, thought-provoking article.