I just read about this case this morning. It’s so sad. This daughter is going to have a tremendous amount of guilt as she not only knew her boyfriend was a Nazi, she began believing the things he said, and possibly let him sneak into her room where he then shot and killed her parents.

“Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of their leaders and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience...Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of…

THANK YOU. Many years ago, I lived in Johannesburg, South Africa, which had at the time (and continues to maintain) a fearsome reputation for violent crime which put it in a league with places like Kabul or Bogota. I rented a cottage in Parktown, a leafy near-north suburb, which was on the estate of an Afrkaaner…

Yeah, paying off debts is great, preaching it comes from a place of pure privilege.

Look, anybody who didn’t know the day Moore hit the headlines that a whole lot of ugly stuff about Democrats—-some true, some stretching the point, some out and out corrosive Republican ratfucking bullshit lies from the right’s massive, dark-money funded Big Lie machine—-was going to spew up and fill one news cycle…

It’s a minefield for guys. I know a lot of times when you try to explain harassment to men they wonder where does that leave flirting or asking a person out. All I can tell them is be aware of the signals, if someone is uncomfortable or not engaging leave them alone. If it’s going well, ask them out, but if that makes…

Thanks so much for sharing your perspective on this. I know that the purpose of this series is to highlight the parents’ perspective in the system, but having worked on the “child’s” side of the system, I think the children’s stories are necessary to give a complete picture.

And here I am defending Kim K. (everything else in our universe is ass-backwards, why not this???): if you’ve gone through the agony of infertility, anyone who gets knocked up easily/by accident is basically a personal affront to you. It’s not logical, it’s not reasonable, it’s not fair or right, it’s not that you…

It really can be both. This, of all things, is not an either-or kind of situation.

I volunteered at the Planned Parenthood headquarters in Los Angeles a few days a week awhile back when I was unemployed. It was mostly very basic office work, but my favorite part was filing donor letters and making donation thank-you calls, because I got to see all the famous people who supported PP. It’s nice to…

“Ah, Haley vs. United States. Haley: 7, United States: nothing. You see, it can be done!”

i’m running into a brick wall when i try to explain to my Catholic-educated relatives why Betsy DeVos’ plans for “school choice” are actually really really bad - because their frame of reference for “religious education” provided much more of the second part, education, and not a lot of the first part, religion.

The Catholic Church has plenty of flaws (possibly the understatement of the year) but biblical literalism isn’t one of them. No priest would suggest learning world history from the Bible.

...Except that it’s not far off from where we are now. Five years ago, two female politicians were banned from addressing the Michigan legislature because they used the word “vagina”.

A picture of a woman with a baby inside her was ‘indecent’ back then? Wow. Things were so backward and restrictive in that time. I’m so glad we live here in the future where everyone is treated equally, racism is a thing of the past, women have full rights and control over their bodies and institutional bigotry has…

I really don’t understand all the fuss over what kids do or don’t do to your life/ marriage/ body. I have a 3 year old with another one on the way and I gotta say... it’s really not as “life changing” or dramatic as people make it out to be. My husband and I decided to have kids. So we did. And now we’re just trying…

The only acceptable alternative facts are the good ones about dogs.

I think if you look closely, you’ll see that she’s a baby.

Same! My 9 yr old floof is a baby!