Thanks Trump!

Let’s be real: does Donald Trump know Frederick Douglas isn’t the peanut butter guy?

I totally get the impulse that some of these Californians are feeling, but it scares me to think of what a California Exit would mean for the millions of people of color, immigrants, and all the progressives in the rest of the US, esp. in the Red states. I hope they’d at least be willing to take us with them as…

Registering for the draft is not enlisting. Every male has to register, but the military would never actually draft someone who is blind. It’s amazing that half the country is completely ignorant about how the draft works.

THIS IS JEZEBEL. THERE CAN BE NO HUMOR OR JOKES UNLESS IT IS AT THE EXPENSE OF MEN - PARTICULARLY WHITE MEN.

Fortunately that is not current foreign policy nor does it hold any legal standing. It is a nice sentiment but holds no real worth. The truth is, a quip regarding immigration and foreign policy cannot begin to deal with the complexity of the issue at hand. Nations have the right to determine how and when people enter…

I mean, I think of them as very interconnected, so I don’t really think of it discretely as “don’t worry about political violence, worry about policy instead.” But I agree with you. I think climate change has enormous implications that most people aren’t even remotely aware of, and that should be of urgent concern.…

And yet the end result of the turmoil of the 1960s wasn’t the rise of a fascist government.

They likely are. And (for good reason) you will never, ever know about it.

Yeah, but your parents are immigrants. To really understand how much hot air all of this is, you have to not just be steeped in American culture but be steeped in the culture of the people saying this.

Cons have been threatening another civil war forever. They threatened FDR with it (and some businessmen and generals in the military tried to organize one), threatened Clinton with it and they definitely went all in on Obama; how many times have they threatened to overthrow the Socialist Muslim in the White House?…

a deep aversion to air conditioning

If you had any lingering doubts that we are in Robber Baron Era mk. II, this kind of shit should remove them.

PEACE THROUGH SUPERIOR FIREPOWER

I think violence is the answer sometimes.

Oh, my. That makes horrible, perfect sense.

As a Catholic and a feminist, here’s the thing that really bugs me about Bryan’s argument (and the Church’s views on sex in general): There IS a way to live a relatively carefree, full life, focused on things other than sex and babies without full chastity; it’s called use of contraception.

Oh my god. Honestly I’m pretty glad I graduated college before Tumblr was a thing...

Mmm. Intergenerational conflict. Bring on the Boomers to shake their walkers and the other Millenials to make fun of them with Snapchat filters. As a dedicated Xer, I shall dutifully express my aloofness by rolling my eyes at all of you.

“I’m not sure why this specific condition is being singled out.”

Because, while the athletes are not divided into categories on the basis of height, they are divided into competition categories on the basis of sex.