Brazil’s incidence of microcephaly had gone from 150 cases a year to around 3,000. Public health workers are very worried.

You’ve mentioned this in a lot of comments, but I don’t really see why a lifespan on the scale of billions of years wouldn’t be justified for a construction project that may only take a few hundred. How long do you expect any given civilization to last?

i was pretty cranky about their “ethical” food marketing because i worked at one and they kind of treated their employees like shit. i knew people that would show up 30 mins to an hour before their shift to do prep work and stay 30 mins to an hour (or longer) after the end of their shift. they wouldn’t clock in until…

I see both sides on this one. Of course people should do the right thing. You should do what you’re supposed to do. You should fulfil your responsibilities, whatever they may be. You should be a decent human being.

So women are just supposed to deal while men cannot exist without constant praise.

Yeah the way baby boomer’s raised their boys is an abomination. My brother learned to do laundry a couple weeks before he went off to college and wouldn’t have our mom to do it anymore. It’s like we’re stuck with a generation of man-children who expect their partners to fill the mother role and continue to do…

Agreed, and you know what, I think acknowledging that you appreciate what someone does, even if it’s something they should be doing all along, is good. My old roommate never did shit, so when my new roommate moved in and actually cleaned up after herself without having to be told and ran and emptied the dishwasher on…

Hence his mass appeal with the uneducated.

Congress has no right to weigh in, actually. “The Congress... on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, SHALL CALL a convention for proposing amendments.” It’s non-optional. They HAVE to do it, as soon as 34 states demand it. Congress just gets to decide whether states will ratify the…

That’s the face of a guy who’s trying to figure out if he’s been convincing in making you believe that he gives a fuck about the question just posed to him about maternity leave. He doesn’t. America needs to publicly address the often unsaid fact that many, many men are just fine with women being paid less for the…

Dear Gregory,

This is true, but as a rule the smaller states are more conservative. Abbot’s “plan” would give rural America a massive veto over the wealthy and populated coasts It would just be the problem with the Senate cranked up to 11 and the knob broken off.

I think he’s talking about the so far never used alternative method of proposing an amendment that’s provided in the Constitution: two thirds of the states demand a Constitutional convention which will make proposed changes to the Constitution (it’s generally thought that this method is only suited for major rewrites…

How about a >slightly< modified version of this?

I go to Europe pretty regularly, and yeah, even the most charitable view is that we have a few pockets of sane folks but we are being dragged around by the madmen. America is seen as a bigger and more powerful rogue state, and one that is imploding just like all the others. We have got to learn how to play nice with…

Speaking as someone who has lived overseas for 8 years, the U.S. is seen as a pathetic joke by even our staunchest allies. I love my country to death and readily acknowledge that as a white man born in 1977 I pretty much have been provided with 99.9 percent of every possible advantage in life. I want to be proud of my…

Let all the empty states tell all the states with tons of people what to do, because states’ rights and freedom.

Well, for some people irony and climate change are schemes for liberals to exploit all of that sweet, sweet research money.

Well, we certainly can’t blame the pharmaceutical companies aggressively pushing opiates or the doctors who are handing them out like fucking lolipops because CAPITALISM AND PROFITS AND STUFF. Instead, let’s blame black men, and while we’re at it make up some bogus nonsense about all the babies their having?