The same people that want corporate information kept private are the same people that don't believe the government should directly employ -- let alone pay -- individuals for work. They want everything either privatized or, at a minimum, contracted out to large corporations. 

This would have been prevented had the baby been allowed to carry her own gun.

I think about the time I posted the Margaret Atwood quote here and got flamed for days from men who thought it of vital importance that I recognize that it is #NotAllMen. They cited examples of all the times they got rejected and didn’t attack anyone (of course they didn’t get rejected very often because they were…

Why don’t we call voting for Biden in the General Election “Plan B.”

I was actually just thinking this when I read about his doubling down on it. If you want to play up your Bipartisan Boomer cred, why not talk about Bob Dole or Jack Kemp or someone who is more fondly remembered? Or John McCain, we’re still at the point where it’s a crime against Discourse to pretend like he’s anything…

Nativist appeals will always be popular (and always be incredibly ironic when issued by Anglo-Europeans to Anglo-Europeans living in the US) precisely because the “This land is my land, it isn’t your land, I’ve got a shotgun, and you ain’t got one” knee-jerk reaction is so goddamned strong in most people. You see the…

Because she was a woman. 

Davey was my best and only friend from k-6th grade and really gave credence to the final words in the movie Stand By Me, “I never had any friends later on like I had when I was 12.” Rather, I am 43 now and I still have never found a friend quite like him later in life. Sadly I will never get to tell him face to face…

How is this not a Constitutional crisis? Either the President is fit to know and be briefed on all matters pertaining to the execution of his office, and that includes secret material and the discretion to disseminate as he sees fit, and the people withholding it are guilty of treasonous and seditious behavior in…

There is -nothing- on Earth that will get white folks with a little power and ego enraged faster then telling them to mind. their. business, second only to not falling on one’s face and begging for forgiveness when said white person doesn’t feel as if he or she is being groveled to enough. The moment their power is…

Okay, so let’s get something clear here:

If “The Congress shall have the power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States,” then the Congress needs to get around to prohibiting flying over-large, tattered flags from the back of pick-up trucks, wearing the flag as an article of clothing, and…

You’re wrong. Regular old criminal appeals are decided every day on evidentiary insufficiency.

I guess stealing isn't a crime anymore. If this were 2 working class black guys, one would be dead and the other would be recovering from being beaten within an inch of death for "resisting".

One of the fundamental myths of whiteness at this point in history is that there is conflict between races, and that is the natural state of things, rather than recognizing that one race has steamrolled everyone else for millennia, and today’s “rift” is the realization of that history. White people are not simply one…

Not just accused, but CONVICTED!! He was tried in court, found guilty, and sentenced. Then, in a deliberate miscarriage of justice, three completely separate men who were not present or knowledgeable of the original trial and seemed like they were armed only with the knowledge that a white man was being punished for…

Oh, it gets batter:

Oh god, those people are the worst. "Sorry if you're offended but I don't mince words, I'm just brutally honest!" And the 'just being honest' defense is always used to justify the most transparently insecure, defensive and dishonest acts of verbal cruelty. Here's a tip: brutally honest people are honest enough to…