Hold up. As a percentage of Texas’ revenue, the amount of federal aid Texas takes is 32%, ranking Texas at 28th. Mississipi takes the most federal aid as a portion of their state’s revenue at 41%. Remember that Texas has the second largest population, so while Texas might take the most percentage of federal aid given…

How is that Snidely Whiplash level shit even legal?

Pfft, free speech only counts if it’s spoken in English

The problem here is that, unless an insurance company is required by law to cover a specific type of care—be it for checking prostates or ovaries—that company won’t offer a policy that covers it. When insurance companies were not required to cover maternity care, the only policies you could find that did cover…

My favorite is when people say that Islam is a religion of hate while spittle forms in the corner of their mouths and they turn red from apoplexy.

No, dude, are you nuts? Leave them here on the planet whose environment they’ve significantly damaged.

Well, clearly the answer is for everybody to open carry, especially children in schools, because one of those nine-year-olds could have stopped the shooter if they had been armed.

Don’t be the older son in the Prodigal Son parable. What you’re describing is one of the most told and celebrated narratives in Christianity: God sends you a trial to change your heart. It’s the format of at least a half dozen stories in the Bible and of dozens of saints. Once someone has come to see that they were…

Pfft, I’m a librarian, and it was all I could do not to bombard you with links and references. For the record, a VPN could also turn around and sell your browsing history, so we’re all at the mercy of companys’ privacy policies.

Your browser history is local, meaning it’s on your tablet. When you delete it, you’re deleting that local information. Your ISP also has a record of the sites you’ve been to, and that record is not on your tablet, so even if you’re dilligent about deleting your browser history, you’re not able to affect the ISP’s…

If I had been left alone in a room with Hitler, I would not have killed him. I would look at the situation in Germany the same way we look at the situation in Syria right now, not knowing what effects killing Hitler would have, not knowing whether his death could stop the Wehrmacht. And probably, like the rest of the…

It’s definitely an older study, because it was at least ten years old around 2001.

Yes! This study! I’m so glad I’m not the only one who remembers it. My dad vehemently opposed sending me to an all girl’s high school because my male peers would suffer for it and also I’d come out a lesbian. He wanted me to attend the more expensive co-ed school across town (about 80 minutes to get to school during…

When I was very young (like 6 or 7), back when it was ADD, a teacher suggested to my parents that I might be ADD. I’m a girl, and my father absolutely refused to have me tested because I wasn’t a “problem child” and sent me to one of those behavior-training tutor places. I was just told I was a bad student. It wasn’t…

Say that being a woman is being a quadrilateral (a shape with four sides). You can say that being a white woman is rhombus and a WOC is a paralleogram and a transwoman is a trapezoid and a woman with nonstandard genetics like those exhaustively discussed in another thread is a rectangle. However you want to divy that…

My primary theory here is this: Because, here in Texas at least, American history classes stop with Lincoln getting shot (World/European history classes will sometimes rush to get to WWII), you come out of school thinking racism ended in the sixties when women’s rights were also fixed. And if you live in your…