Someone who knows science best should suggest more clinical terms like developing fertilized zygote. Just keep offering up every variations further and further away from baby.

They will fire everyone. The gop goal is to have a disfunctional government that is of no use to the people. There have been massive cuts to every service that employs scientists and impedes the oligarchs such as the EPA and NPS. This administration and the republicans in congress would be delighted to completely…

Yep. They’re so obvious. I was talking about it on the phone earlier to my mom and suggested they start using the phrase “fertilized ovum”. Take that, Trump administration! We’ll just come up with ways to make a fetus sound even *less* babylike!

“It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words...Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.” —George Orwell, 1984

This attack on fundamental vocabulary is not just an effort to control the narrative. This is part of a persistent effort on the part of the trump administration to force out scientists so they can make policies without any nasty facts getting in the way. They can also make sure that the vacated positions are filled…

What happens if the CDC flat out refuses to comply?

Matt Lauer is totally the heavy in this scenario. He totally went after her knowing what he was doing, but she exacerbated the situation herself by doing what she did. But I was looking at this from the perspective that she’s a person that looked at him and said “You’re married? Ok, let’s have sex”. Man or woman, that…

Seems that the lust for power here might have gone in both directions...she knew he had just gotten married..which would be, in most cases, enough info to resist the bait.

I completely agree. But in her case, I don’t get any sense of victimization. Maybe naivety. She knew what she was doing when she entered into consensual (again, her own words) sex with him. She was dumb if she carried the thought “Oh, we had sex, now he’ll totally take me seriously and help my career at no gain to him…

Hard agree! He’s gross for abusing his power and she’s gross for using her regret of her consensual behaviour to paint herself as a victim.

I’m confused. All I get out of this story is that he’s a chauvinistic jerk-off like we already knew, but she’s also opportunistic because she had consensual sex with him multiple times, knowing he was newly married. In other words, it’s a non-story about two shitty people.

I tend to think “contact theory” is true in this regard. The more time we spend with people the less they become ideas to contemplate and the more they become humans we can understand. But as you have pointed out, our communities were intentionally and unintentionally designed to be s segregated. I live in area where…

Paul Ryan is actually calling for Rich White Women to have more babies. All other people do not count as Americans.

A gorram treasure.

If the democrats court the black vote.

Being completely honest - if this guy was as terrible to casual acquaintances and close friends as the article and comments allege, I’m guessing that he was an absolute monster to his family members. Humans usually save their truly garbage moments for blood relatives behind closed doors. I’m inclined to feel relief…

I hope like hell someone’s protecting that girl right now.

I’m not at all talking about putting forth dems that would restrict access to abortion in anyway. I’m talking about putting forward dems who will go into communities and acknowledge that abortion makes a lot of people uncomfortable but we can find common ground. They need to articulate that being pro choice is not the…

“Making birth control widely available and educating people on how to use it would increase the amount of sex (young) people are having,”

Thank you. I have family in the south and am always incredulous that with them, every single issue comes down to abortion, always. But they are reasonable people in many other ways. Maybe this would work.