A while back, I was blown away by the confidence of Texas Gov. Abbott when he asserted that Texas will soon have zero rape victims because Texas cops will arrest all of the rapists. How does that work, practically speaking? Cops/DAs can’t charge people with a crime that has yet to happen, but after the crime has…

“I can’t ever recall hearing stuff like this”

No, that was a different congressman from Louisiana (John Fleming). He doesn’t currently hold any role in any government or public service agency.

This trope needs to go. There is real, genuine bias against gay people. When you brush it off as, “The real bigots are gay people,” you yourself are being a bigot.

He’s probably required to have direct deposit, and just one or two of his paychecks would build him up above the reportable limit. There’s no possible way that he hasn’t already violated the rules. He’s hiding income... so it’s very weird that this Jezebel writer took all of his statements at face value, as if that…

Let’s all stop doing the same with “our forefathers” and “what would Jesus do?” People pull these supposed heroes into their arguments without first doing the littlest bit of research.

This story is a mess.  If she said “n-word” then she did not say the word itself.  This looks like it was written in less than five minutes and with almost no thought.  Y’all just really desperately need more page views, huh?

Yikes, no. We are tired of people with no science background pretending to be scientists. We already had to watch covid, the treatments, and the vaccines. And with abortion, fetuses, the FDA, and more, it just never ends. Just stop. Please give biologists a break. (It’s noted: many of your other comments are nonsense…

“Never again” is a great slogan, but it’s only a slogan. It’s also completely insincere. Israel just funded and supplied the genocide against Armenians, and then less than a month later they begin targeting hospitals and mosques in a second genocide. Twice in a month! “Never again” my butt. They’re such complete…

I just watched another interview with him in which he blames gun violence on... teaching evolution in high school biology classes.

Nonsense. The actual political spectrum is skewed. The right is farther to the right than the left is to the left. Also, AOC has never been speaker, has never been nominated as speaker, has never tried to be speaker. My god, you’re dumb. We do need more sanity!

Is Montana allowed to ban travel by 19- and 20-yr. olds who want to drink in Saskatchewan? Is there any precedent for any border state from Washington to Maine doing anything like this in the last 200 years?

We’ve sent people to prison for far less than this. Cops even charge people with possession of cannabis crumbs that they (allegedly) find on the floor. Since when do you think that only felonies result in prison time?? That’s not the country we live in.

This reminds me of Marjorie Taylor-Greene showing porn on a posterboard in Congress. She probably ordered her aides to watch videos, take screen captures, crop photos, design a mockup/collage, coordinate with the local print shop, buy the cardboard, etc. — all of which would constitute sexual harassment at any normal…

“When I woke up this morning, I had no intentions of doing this.”

Meh. I wish Halloween costumes weren’t so commercial anyway. What happened to the spookiness? Vampires, monsters, ghouls, etc., make for a better atmosphere. But at the last Halloween party I attended, there were multiple straight couples dressed up as the couple from the movie Juno. My god, let that one go already!

“The Boogeyman” is worth it just for Chris Messina’s gradually graying beard. That man is such a stud!

One of the pro-Israel comments from earlier today had 36 “likes” within the first few minutes of it being posted, when there was only one other comment here. But now the comment is gone. Something weird is happening here. It really looks like the pro-Israel comments (spam?) are being coordinated outside this website.

Normal people are able to have Jewish-American friends (or even *be* Jewish-American!) while simultaneously denouncing a foreign army.

You need to read more than blogs. Check out the Washington Post and the New York Times for high-resolution GIS maps of Gaza. The military targets are encircled.