(I admit I don’t understand publishing rights.) Did she pay the songwriter, singer, or studio for the permission to earn money off of a cover? This isn’t like singing privately to herself in the shower. She turned it into a money-making business, and that brings in a bunch of laws... right? Maybe some of these…

“under extreme pressure to fit in”

She’s in a union herself. That’s... a pretty big part of the story here.

Talk shows like hers aren’t literally scripted moment by moment, but they do still employ writers for tasks like: picking topics; distilling/filtering topics; researching background info (to the guest: “I heard that you once XYZ”); deciding where punchlines should fall; how to mix tonality or emotion.... It’s like the…

Completely correct. They are stuck dealing with bigots like you, which must be exhausting.

Politicians get to decide which doctors “count” as doctors. I’ll bet you my life savings that a whole bunch of SME doctors are about to be deemed pedos. Republicans are going to approve churches, though.

Each individual part sounds somewhat reasonable, but the combination is what’s going to be nearly impossible in practical terms. Republicans are capping therapy at a maximum of 2 hrs./wk., so another way to express the requirement is not “40 hours” but “5 months minimum.” That also assumes that the person is able to…

What a weird comparison to make. Of course private corporations are not going to have their employees begin conversations with paying customers with the word “fuck.” During business transactions, there’s a totally different etiquette.

“I never order anything that might be from the day before. I order to force them to make it then and there.”

Agreed. I actually love McDonald’s, but I only eat it at a rest stop while I’m on a long drive (typically for work, sometimes on vacation). Customers just need to be honest with themselves about why we eat there. The company definitely serves a purpose, but that purpose is not to be wowed (and it’s not for nutrition…

I always assumed it. My own early jobs taught me enough to be skeptical. I worked at a deli, and all of our bacon was pre-cooked. There were so few customers asking for bacon on sandwiches that we just had a stash of cooked bacon in the fridge, and we were supposed to microwave it. Yes, that’s sad, I know. The…

Am I supposed to believe that “Siobhan” is a Celtic woman? She doesn’t look Celtic. She doesn’t even look Armenian anymore... because she doesn’t look like a real human.

This man was married for many years before his wife tragically died of disease. That little detail, to me, makes a giant difference. This series finally found someone who (a) genuinely wants to be in a relationship, and (b) is capable of making a relationship work. None of the previous seasons had that.

Also,

Most white women voted for Donald Trump. The makeup of the current Supreme Court is due in large part to women with uteruses. Also consider that Amy Coney Barrett is a woman. When women are left to decide this, they choose anti-abortion positions. On this issue, the sex differences are really not night and day.

When a Christian speaks proudly about his or her “sincerely held religious beliefs,” it is the most disingenuous shit you will ever hear. They are consistently fake. Judges really need to start dismissing their obvious lies. No court should have to accommodate beliefs that are nonexistent. 

Satan? Eternal hell? These people have such kooky minds that it could be anything — real or imaginary.

We do need people to care about bias and discrimination. When people post moronic assumptions and lies, it doesn’t help.

I’m not surprised that a Mormon zealot is making things up to manipulate people and gain followers, but I *am* surprised that some sort of regulating body has licensed her. Who is behind that? One of my friends is a licensed social worker in a school, and she needed college-level courses, sit-down tests on paper both i…

If the goal is to end all paid sex work, then they should just be honest. Instead, they’re using the old trope, “save the children!!” They’re picking out a sensitive subject as a hook, and then they’re doing something different.