This president - in a heartbeat. I don’t promote hate

Why? Do you mean you prefer “Dad” because you think it’s more grown up or do you mean they should call them by their names. I’m just curious.

Here’s the thing though the Democrats are ones trying to do something about the problem of deciding between house payment and medical bills. The republicans did nothing and then complained when Obama implemented a conservative plan to do something about it. The Democrats are the ones who want to raise the minimum…

Thank you for this. One of my friends posted that we should tell our kids. “Things will be fine”. I had to refrain from shouting “For you”. She’s quite wealthy and lives in CA. What about people whose food stamps are likely to be cut. People who will lose health insurance. Black people if Trump implements stop and…

Yes it was worded in an unhelpful fashion. Yes there was blowback in the election against “political correctness”. However I want to make two points. One it is true that white man used to get good jobs with just a high school diploma but nothing will enable those jobs to come back, corporate America will not stand for…

Well there are a couple of things that make women feel uncomfortable about such conversations. One is reducing attractiveness to a number based on physical attributes alone. Perhaps we’re just fooling ourselves that men who actually know us value things about us besides how we look and we should drop the idea but…

I am so sorry. It hurts when you thought you knew someone and then you find out that you didn’t at all. I know you know this but your question was reasonable and civililized. I’m sure it feels awful. It is cold comfort but maybe try telling yourself that it is good that he is no longer around your children. What kinds…

No they are not. However given that Trump has mainstreamed blatant racism and that the polls are dead heat/favoring Trump in swing states. People are dead scared that any criticism of Hilary will throw the election to Trump with people who are still on the fence saying they will not vote or voting for a third party…

That’s interesting. My niece and nephew go by Latina/Latino because they embrace their Puerto Rican heritage but they don’t speak Spanish (though they do understand it). I’ve heard Spanish speaking used to determine whether or not to use Hispanic vs Latino used before too.

I believe the way the law works is that if it is a shared bathroom/bedroom situation you can have gender preferences but can't discriminate base on anything else. If there is no sharing you cannot discriminate at all.

I think she will grow up into a wonderful person but as a mum - yeah I would yell at her for days and make her promise to never do such a thing again until she is at least 21. I’d say that it’s like alcohol protecting people is for grownups.

It’s interesting to see how far you could go and get Poe’s law. Maybe “Kids these days are so weak. She should have carried her mom” would have passed muster for sarcasm? You’re lucky with your kids. Mine has been completely uncooperative for minor injuries can’t even imagine how much curling up into a ball and crying…

You see the thing is ... there are people who would honestly not joking have thought that the kid should walk. Unfortunately you got lumped in with those people because they would have just said what you did and sarcasm doesn't always translate online unless it's over the top. Although when you think about it it's…

Yes it is absolutely true that most police officers are fair. However the problem is that most of the time the good ones refuse to repudiate the behavior of the bad apples that don't. It is always "let's not rush to judge without all the evidence" even if there is video evidence, or "he was scared" even if there was…

I’m sorry but you have no compassion. Someone that was paralyzed, lost their child and baby is not thinking straight and will not be for a long time. Was it a bad decision to file a lawsuit, sure it was. You’re suggestion that she should now be bankrupted on top of that lacks kindness.

Not really 100% but if you are rich and famous they do

You are right it is excessively mean to compare you to Trump however take a pause and put yourself in the position of the person who is losing badly. It can feel to them like salt in the wound to say that is was easy. Some of the people playing the game are also preteens. Sure it’s not wrong that it was easy but it…

I know too much about Christianity to think Islam is inherently more demeaning. You read Paul’s letters and he suggests modesty for women and covering their heads etc. etc. As far as I can tell the modesty rules appear to be cultural not religious. Calling it “living in the stone age” is incredibly insulting I do…

There have to be limits to "respect the culture". You can argue that her cultural practices hurt no one. That is arguable but a debate can be made. You can argue that it simply a way of dressing since she lives in the US so no one can force her to dress that way. However the argument that you should respect something…

I don't know I used to think that but ... with all this attention being paid to Trump it has been brought forcibly to my attention that some of my friends are racists. From conversations essentially they have some combination of putting me in a special category and/or thinking that black people only come in "really…