Wow. Only in America. (Or maybe someplace like Iran).

Reducing a murder charge to manslaughter doesn't mean the killing was "justified" — it means that, whether for justified or unjustified reasons, the killer's judgment was clouded. Being drunk can also get you a manslaughter charge.

She also has a bit of a Sherman McCoy or Duke Lax appeal — even if she did do something unsavory 30 years ago and saying the n-word is wrong, the media response strikes lots of people as disproportionate and absurd. A victim of clickbait race-hysterics, etc. I frankly found her disgusting before the scandal, but now…

I truly wish that we could magically, omnisciently generate a list of every human being who has ever used the n-word. I think gawker/SJWs (but really, why even distinguish) would, at that point, have some interesting choices to make.

Is the @AmericanAir tweet from April real? I will donate money to a revolting organization of your choice if you tell me (really).

They are lobbying for a change in the law that would force their opinions pretty thoroughly on everybody. They are fair game.

>abortion rates are actually higher in countries that have banned the procedure

Why did you omit the part of the screencap @AmericanAir? That was without a doubt the funniest part. Do you think the screenshot is fake? Because if so, you're not alone, but I desperately want it to be real.

They pretty obviously cast her to be racially ambiguous. If repubs were casting a non-"ethnic" woman, you'd know it.

"Articulate" seemed like a private wink/lulz/dogwhistle to racists, but I think you're reaching pretty hard if you're attributing a "scary" vibe. They do inject some menace with the "spying on my phone calls and emails" thing, but...well. It's not racist to point out that the administration's behavior in that regard…

>We have one party trying to make things better

Do you really think those types of "creepshots" should be illegal, though? If, analogously, someone in a public place leaned over and stared up your skirt, very few people would consider this reasonably expected or okay — it'd be more in the vein of assault.

I wouldn't "feel sorry" for this guy, but nor do I think it's contemptible, setting-cash-aflame extravagance to want your kids to see some of the most historically and culturally significant cities in the world — cities which, like Paris, are fairly centrally located. I wouldn't think it was extravagant for a French…

I not asking and nor do I expect for you to sympathize with me. Every day, I spend gobs of money on comforts that Mississippians would consider opulent or trivial — gobs of $ that could substantively improve those peoples' lives. But you could say the same thing about Mississippians vis-a-vis billions of people…

I said extreme poverty and hunger — gender equality (which, I'd be the first to agree, the U.S. could use more of) and child mortality are separate development goals. And while it's disturbing that 6-12% of kids living below the federal poverty line (i.e.: parents, if fully employed, probably make less than $9/hour)…

Well, yes — I don't want to live in Mississippi, and you don't want to live in rural India. And for me to benchmark my lifestyle to what's affordable in Mississippi strikes me just as absurdly as the rural-India example strikes you.

Okay, but looking at the UNDP goals — even a $9/hour household in the U.S. is not at risk of "extreme poverty and hunger," as contextualized globally. If you're using UNDP as a reference point for what constitutes a basic need, then so long as your kids aren't so starved their growth is stunted (and aren't dying of…

New York (especially Manhattan) is a very young city. So there are plenty of households consisting of, say, two roommates fresh out of college — a marketing girl earning $60k, and a consulting girl earning $90k. They rent, and they've left the city by age 35. The people who stick around, own homes, and raise kids…

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Have you ever seen a 500sf space? "Child abuse" skews towards glib hyperbole, but no — in my view, it would not be okay to raise a family in such a space. Certainly there is a good case to be made that depriving a human of any form of privacy amounts to abuse — at least by contemporary Western middle class standards.