What is barely touched on here: the inaccessibility of gatekeeping institutions for those whose parents are not rich.  If a few people get “full scholarships”, great; but for the most part financial aid has morphed from mostly grant (plus a token campus job) to mostly loan. Do we really want a journalism staffed only…

Is there ANY way to stop this shiznat? Or will automation kill most of the jobs?

College is no—and maybe never has been—11 w

EXACTLY. And some former (and maybe once-sincere) libertarians are becoming more overtly fascist in midlife. Please keep commenting & sharing info on this—and maybe write a book.

Party? (Close enough!)

Maybe going to somebody’s apartment on a first date isn’t a great idea, but two people may at some point want to be alone together for reasons other than going all the way—kissing, necking, petting; a little light makeout session while watching TV? (Some men seem to have forgotten about all the “bases” between first…

You mean a few martyrs help the cause in the long run? That may be true.

King may not have “sat around being nice”, but he didn’t promote violence. The civil rights movement won much of white America to its cause by holding the moral high ground.

That could change (at least for the DREAMers’ kids) IF Republicans agreed to a reasonable compromise. But they won’t.

The Overton Window has definitely shifted to the right.

False analogy. Your kids get to keep the (only) home, school, and culture they’ve always known.

Or at least don’t meet up with strangers.

Parents should better warn kids about WHY not to give out personal info or rendezvous with strangers. Just monitoring or restricting kids’ internet use is fine for younger kids, but teenagers should not be kept so dangerously naive; they should KNOW what not to do. And we adults could also set a better example by…

Indeed—bigotry is intersectional. With some exceptions, a racist is usually a sexist is usually anti-LGBTQ, and more. Why? See writings like Roosh’s on Return of Kings. A certain kind of reactionary favors ethnonationalism (“our tribe must win”) and thinks ethnic/national victory requires high birth rates (“we must…

That’s what I thought. They’d make more money if they brought back the double feature (without raising ticket prices). Between shows, they’d have a captive audience for the concession stands.

Hey, movie theaters: want to make more money? BRING BACK THE DOUBLE FEATURE—with a LONG intermission between shows for REFRESHMENT-BUYING! (Didn’t theater owners used to say they made most of their money from the concession stand? Is that still true?) Pair the more-popular film with the less-popular. But please, DON’T…