I actually posted about this on io9 but the audience there is a little less receptive ever since the giz merger:

I think so. The constant inflow of people over the last few decades has made the city incredibly diverse. Meanwhile, the lasting power of the black community, economically and politically, combines with a steady influx of “educated professionals” (or whatever they are being called now) to keep the local politics well…

Holy shit, all that means is that you’ve seen the very worst of it, please dear god don’t judge ATL based off that place. And as the other poster said, the city has a ton of progressive and very (outwardly!) weird people. For example, this is from an Advocate ranking of the “Gayest Cities in America.”*

Yes, I wonder how many of the people who are okay with arresting a 6th grader for pinching a classmate are also extremely pissed about the “Carceral State” and how we imprison far more people than any civilized nation should! Dime bags aren’t the only thing that we criminalize at an obscene rate, and putting a child…

zOMG LITERALLY EVERYONE HAS A BLOG

You need to stop writing so many long and thoughtful comments. Reading them is killing my productivity and the involuntary nodding is becoming a literal pain in my neck.

Somewhat, but I think he is mainly supporting Anyone But Trump because the GOP is terrified that if they don’t run a “True Conservative” candidate at the top of the ballot many of their voters won’t show up in November and they’ll be massacred down-ballot.

Agreed, when PEW released a report last year about state support for LGBT nondiscrimination laws, almost 2/3 of the people surveyed in NC supported them. Slightly lower than the national average—of course!—but still a clear majority. Yet now we have the exact opposite. There is certainly reason to hope that the GOP…

A few things that aren’t mentioned here. First, there’s a good chance this bill violates Title IX and may threaten federal funding for NC’s vaunted public university system. Since we have already been cutting state funding, this could pose a serious problem going forward; it could also help undermine the bill too, so…

Which is nonsense, because in a general election Ted Cruz will actually have to explain to people how going from a progressive income tax to a horribly regressive consumption tax will benefit them. He will then have to tell them how gutting social security and medicare will benefit them. Then he’ll need to explain how…

This is good Kinja

Rush is right; I do find him “threatening” but not for the reasons he listed. Instead, I find Ted Cruz threatening because I’m nearly certain that he truly, unequivocally believes the things that come out of his mouth, and that kind of shit should be threatening to most people.

... yes

‪#‎WeAreNotThis‬

Oh Willard! He sees it all crashing down in front of him, he futilely tries to intervene, but in the end there really is nothing he can do to stop it.

It’s also worth noting how Orwellian his language is. He doesn’t say “In America, we have certain Muslim neighborhoods that produce terrorists. We need to use predictive policing to end this.”* Instead, he seems to be arguing that we should secure all Muslim neighborhoods based on his assumption that because they are…

A seventh-grade reading level and less than four characters per word.

Of course, these revelations will likely not affect Trump’s campaign at all, because he is figurative rubber, and also literal rRubber.

I watched it and I think you have a point. Based on the video, the police rode into the group of protestors for no apparent reason. The woman touches the horse—not smart—but isn’t shown slapping or striking it.

Oh yes; there is more than a little Bachmann in those eyes.