So well written. This reminded me a lot of my childhood and life - the knowing that I wasn’t really a man because men can’t be raped. The shame and depression. For me it was years long sexual abuse from my step father and there are multiple times in my life where the fallout from those years nearly destroyed my life…

It also pays off Rey’s journey as established in TFA far better than any grand reveal of significant parentage would have. Rey is unable to join the surrogate family Han offers her, or initially to seek the destiny offered to her by the Force, because of her obsession with her parents. Getting over that fixation was a…

Agreed. I certainly didn’t love TLJ when I first watched it (although I’ve warmed to it after a few rewatches on Blu Ray), but that was one decision I thought was great from the get go.

It’s been pointed out by others that it’s neat how Ben Solo’s lineage shows how corrupting this idea of legacy is and how much damage it does to the idea of a transcendent Force. Luke atoned for the sins of his father, but now it’s going to take someone completely unaffiliated to break the cycle of destruction/renewal…

She said that a year after she left the company she ran into Weinstein at the Cannes Film Festival, and “he told me that everything I had done was pointless.”

You know this site and writers on it have had no issue bashing the democratic party but let’s be clear, there is a place in it for people of color to promote and talk about the issues that are important to them and other people of color. Can any person of color stop fucking pretending that such a place exists in the…

It pleases me that this was said by a man who looks like Frito Bandito’s conservative nephew.

Umm... the commerce clause? Sure it’s been abused, and the FCC is a bunch of political hacks for the most part, but it has a reason to exist. It’s one of the federal powers enumerated in the Constitution (Art. 1, Sec. 8, C. 3.) This isn’t even Bill of Rights stuff, it’s in the original Constitution.

Ivanka Trump reminds me of someone that would be a character in a Black Mirror episode about our dystopian future.

There’s no easy way to do it, but then again there’s never an easy way to do the right thing, that’s why it’s the RIGHT THING. If doing the right thing were easy, it wouldn’t be a big deal when people do the right thing.

This is a good take!

......and the moral & ethical standing of Jimmy Carter.

I actually do tell them about myself: that I like to travel, that I have a dog, and enjoy movies. In part because it’s a good way to let them know I have a life and if they’re looking for someone to work 70 hours a week I am not that person. Been there, done that, live relatively frugally so I don’t have to do it…

Sounds like some Chinese front.

I’m having a bit of an ethical dilemma in my reaction similar to the Ashley Madison breach. On one hand, breaches of privacy = bad and this could put people’s lives in danger.

Or, ideally, be nothing like those two people.

but much worse he talks bad about me to our four year old daughter.

You’re missing the problem. The problem isn’t Arpiao or Maricopa County Sheriff’s Dept. itself repeating the move.

There may be a legal challenge to the Constitutionality of the pardon.

The chance of developing gestational diabetes, which puts you at a higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes in the future. Sometime, the gestational diabetes just sticks around for funsies, even after you give birth. So you get a newborn AND lifelong diabetes! Hurray! I did get gestational diabetes, but it went away…