Come on. She’s an exceptional case. I don’t assume most eight-year-olds I meet are able to compose symphonies just because Mozart could.

What really pisses me off is that David Brooks and his ilk are doing everything in their power to ensure that wealth inequality remains entrenched and systemic, and that a college education becomes less and less accessible/affordable to the poor, mistreated, working-class masses who they don’t give two shits…

Daniel Dae Kim’s bone structure is so perfect that he looks like he was cybernetically engineered in a dystopian (but sexy) future.

Seriously. The Nazis weren’t “terrorists”—they were the actual government. And if you replaced every “Islamic” with “Jewish” in his little Facebook screed, you’d pretty much have *exactly* the official policy and rhetoric that led to Auschwitz in the first place.

And they only finally allowed Hawaii into the union when Alaska—a majority white territory—was granted statehood, thus creating a “balance” for Hawaii’s minority voters.

Agreed. There are some countries/international carriers that will let you bring a stroller into the cabin if it can fit in an overhead compartment when collapsed. Given that she was apparently a foreign traveler—and that nobody stopped her before she got on the plane with the stroller—I’m thinking she may not have…

My Grinch heart grows three sizes every time I see how tired and just completely *haggard* he and Kellyanne Conway (especially Kellyanne Conway!) are starting to look. And it’s only two weeks in!

Sadly, you’re wrong. :( I mean, you’re totally right that Republicans will once again fail to deliver on their promises and will make life still-harder for the white working class. But you’re wrong in thinking that this will turn them against their Republican legislators or president.

First of all, you don’t know that she “jumped there immediately” or that it was her “first step.” Maybe she tried throwing herself down the stairs. It’s actually pretty difficult to dislodge a pregnancy with a fall down the stairs, contrary to what Hollywood melodramas would have you believe.

Chiming in to agree and add this:

I had to read this poem by Pablo Neruda a couple of times before I realized that it isn’t actually about a woman—it’s about the death, and rebirth, of hope. I’ve been reading and re-reading it compulsively as this wretched year draws to a close...

Yes and no. As someone noted below, there’s a lot of case law pertaining to schools, specifically. The short answer is that public schools are given far more leeway than other types of government-funded institutions/spaces in restricting speech both of the students themselves and of other entities directing speech…

In Beauty and the Beast, Beauty falls in love with her kidnapper/rapist and marries him—there is no male third-party “rescuer.” What is another fairy tale—specifically—in which the female protagonist falls in love with her abductor? It doesn’t happen in Cinderella, for example, or Sleeping Beauty, or Red Riding…

I think you’ve seen one too many Oliver Stone movies. :)

Eh. Trump’s not a career politician. There was never anything waiting for him on the other side of this (a 2020 run; a cabinet position; party backing for a signature piece of legislation) that the RNC can now threaten to withhold as leverage to force him to quit. All they can do to him is pull their support of his…

RNC guidelines allow the Party to select a new presidential candidate post-convention if the current candidate dies, steps down, or is too ill to continue to run. There’s no provision for forcing a candidate out once he’s been ratified by the national convention. And even if they held an emergency session of the…

Which others? Specifically?

My cat is “internet famous” and has 2 million Facebook followers—and because he’s “special needs,” I spend a LOT of my day immersed in discussions of feline health and well-being. So here’s my take (FWIW).

Yes—for abusive husbands and rapists*.