During or after we stopped funding the Mujahideen to block Soviet expansion?

To make it even better, turn over Alaska to its native population. 

Spicy take: Take away Alaska’s statehood and give it to Puerto Rico. 

counterpoint; everyone would be cranky. 

There is no counterpoint.  Katherine knows the truth.  If you want to live in constant darkness, just move north of the Arctic Circle during the winter, and then south of the Antarctic Circle in the summer.  Problem solved.

And on this day, Donald Trump mounted the “you can’t even compliment a woman anymore” defense for his years of active sexual harassment and assault.

Seriously, anyone who confuses a well-meaning compliment (delivered in the proper context, at the appropriate time) with sexual harassment is either willfully…

I volunteer at an arts and crafts class for kids and am really looking forward to trying out this advice. Thank you for posting this.

The response from Alanna is great, I just wanted to add (and sorry, it might be in the link!) but one of the best simple phrases I’ve learned about using for this concept is “I noticed...” <followed by your observation>. Alternately, “I appreciate...” - which I personally find works better for me with acknowledging…

The “and I turned out alright” is the same defense for NOT bothering with safety equipment or vaccinations. Sure, you survived. But the reason this shit exists is because A LOT OF CHILDREN DIDN’T AND THEY AREN’T HERE TO TELL YOU THAT.

If you read through Kohn actually gives a lot of suggestions of positive things to say that aren’t praise! It can definitely feel really daunting at first to re-frame how you talk in such a fundamental way.

I think we need to look at spanking like car seats. So many people hear “you shouldn’t spank your kids” and immediately get defensive because their parents spanked them, and if you aren’t supposed to, than that means that they had bad parents. But they love their parents, they couldn’t have been bad, so that must mean…

The best response I’ve ever read to “Look, my parents spanked me and I turned out fine!” is “No, you didn’t. You think it is okay to hit little kids.”

Honestly while I agree that a clean slate is a good place to start. I think that more effort needs to be put in for moderating the comments section with a decent reporting system.

“I ended the conversation pretty quickly after that,” Peduto told the Post.

Let me say I’m not going to cry if Bowers gets the juice.

Tough guy cosplay vs. a hard look at US domestic terrorism, mainly fueled by white male supremacy.

Why do these articles always focus on the women he raped and the man he helped kill and not his college football career? So negative. 

Oh hey, I’d forgotten about this asshole.

I’m not arguing against the death penalty. Just stating fact that someone who is going to shoot up a synagogue does not care about the ramifications. So stop using ‘deterrent’ as a reason to institute it, for situations like this. 

This pic forever