That’s not a sufficient explanation. Lots of government work is kept from the public. Sometimes, a civilian can file a records request (using FOIA at the federal level and similar state laws for state government agencies), but the agencies are then allowed to say no. Other records are automatically protected, and the…

They don’t consider gay men to be men. There are plenty of harassing laws that impact gay men. You have to be heterosexual, white, and Christian to count as a whole person.

A judge said the words “fetus/corpse/body/birthing tissue/whatever.” The top legal expert in the room is using the word “whatever.”

Can a person sitting in a movie theater really tell the difference between an extra who is 5'8" and an extra who is 5'10"? These aren’t scenes with two main characters sharing dialogue. These are background extras with no lines or lingering shots. I just don’t think all of our eyes are that good. This tactic sounds…

Avatar has no cultural impact.

Avatar has no cultural impact.

Agreed. I think that too many people conflate “money-maker” with “popular.” A movie can rake in cash because of variables like the cost per ticket (and 3D movies or other special sound/screen features demand a higher price per person). Avatar made more money because they required that we pay them more money. It’s…

throwing human beings into a boozy pressure cooker while dating 40 people at a time isn’t actually a very good way to produce marriages! (Who knew?)

If it’s the second-worst out of infinity, doesn’t that still sound like the worst? I forget the math rule behind it...

If this tweet is real, why can’t you link to it? Why choose a jpg instead?

This article was like my experience with them, although no one died in the accident. After being their customer for about 20 years with no accidents and not even one speeding ticket, I had a minor accident that would’ve cost somewhere on the order of $2,000. By then, I must have paid many thousands into my decades’…

This is fine. They messed with the timeline so much (like by keeping Peter alive) that it already felt drawn out.

You’re assuming that the rest of us are “haters,” but we’re just average people who aren’t watching movies in shopping malls very much anymore. I saw zero movies during the pre-vaccine pandemic, then I saw just one while wearing a mask post-vaccine, and all that time gave me opportunities to find new hobbies and…

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?