I had no idea until college that boys had any capacity to offer intellectual contributions of any kind.

I actually had a similar experience (though boy howdy did I meet resistance to this idea in high school). Are you a secular Jew, the child of a single mother, or both? Or, alternately, did you go to Catholic school taught by nuns? I was raised to believe that men are absolutely incompetent and useless and these are…

I believe his brother was at one of the Women’s Marches. It’s my understanding (and this is gleaned from internet gossip, so take it with a grain of salt) that Jared’s father going to prison divided the family; Jared was one of the few who stuck by him, and the rest of the family doesn’t support Jared or the father.

I think Bannon’s in charge at the White House, and he’s gone powermad.

i take comfort in the thought that even just 9 months of prison is going to be very unpleasant for such a doughy, neckless, “intensely private” dude. fresh fish like him don’t do well even on short stints.

he should have spent some time social engineering himself a neck.

They know they’re going to fail. The one thing they never planned for was actually being elected. Now they have to govern, and that’s work, and if there’s one thing affluent whites can’t succeed at, it’s working for a living. All I wanted was to keep up our admittedly too-slow advancement, to maintain the status quo…

A commenter on Jezebel, a while back, claimed to have witnessed Don Jr. being knocked over by his father’s punch, and alluded to alcohol problems that may have resulted from this skewed childhood. Given the hair-raising stories about Ivana from her deposition, I would not be surprised if Melania endured domestic…

On the eve of the inauguration, I think it’s a good time to remember that under President Obama, twenty million Americans gained health insurance, cutting the percentage of uninsured Americans to single digits; same-sex marriage was legalized; DADT was repealed; combat positions were opened to women and transgender…

Their parents can.

I’d wager that the damning revelation was that Comey was blackmailed by the Russians into issuing that statement on Hillary’s emails a week before the election.

I know, but the bombshell will be what has compromised him. Do the Russians have him by the balls as well?

HE IS. Comey is being blackmailed.

I feel like I’m wearing a tin-foil hat here, but here goes: something in the meeting is leading the dems to think Comey himself is compromised at this point.

Living in a ‘factors leading to’ paragraph is terrifying.

If they HAVE to impeach him over some scandal in 2018-9, they’re done in the White House starting in 2020. If they impeach Trump in his first year, they can write him off as a fluke and then point to how “great” Precedent Pence was for the past three years.

Formerly poor people tend to have a lot of unexamined privilege themselves.

“But observing that fact, even understanding it, doesn’t necessarily engender empathy. In fact, quite the contrary.”