“...there was never any intent at all to mislead anyone.” #smh

I know when I worked there, our training and the marketing materials did refer to the “hearing impaired,” but it’s been years. I just checked their website, and the term they use now is “hearing loss.” Thanks for that heads up.

The people who could consistently do 200+ wpm with accuracy were relatively rare; the more…

I used to do a job like that, using voice recognition software to caption for the hearing impaired. It wasn’t just software, but also keyboard and touchscreen shortcuts and using all three (plus a foot pedal) in a coordinated fashion to keep up with real-time speech.

Her self-image isn’t within miles of the truth.

Does that mean white supremacists are missing out on the deliciousness that are Korean bulgogi tacos? Man, their loss.

Re: Tweeting from an iPhone: My guess is he saw a news report, didn’t have his Android handy and borrowed the nearest person’s phone to make that tweet.

A ‘hajib’ is an official in a Muslim court. A ‘hijab’ is the “modesty thing.” You used the wrong word twice, so it’s not a typo. You just don’t know the word.

Let’s never forget the truism that “what goes around, comes around.” Perhaps slowly, ever so slowly, but eventually the wheel does inevitably turn.

One of the problems is the people using Trump to advance their agendas aren’t stupid. They know exactly what they want to achieve, and how to get it done now that they have a “useful idiot” in place.

As I noted last week, it’s not the people who voted for Trump; #MAGA!!!!! is what they want. I blame anyone who wrote long, self-important think-pieces declaring that “the lesser of two evils” proposition is bullshit. Yeah... how’s that working out?

Can’t say for sure it’s this exact one, but if not this one I saw a sign exactly like it at the march in Madison, WI.

How’s that principled rejection of the “lesser of two evils” working out for all you leftists who for whatever reason did not vote for Clinton?

This isn’t the fault of anyone who voted for Trump—this is what they voted for. For the record, ecstatic tea baggers are having collective orgasms in their circle jerks on…

Oh look: It’s the Sky Fairy defense!

As a militant anti-theist, I have to ask what the point is of arguing the minutiae of the texts of myths with fableists? The morality of judgment, accountability and even forgiveness can and should be argued on much stronger and far more universal humanist grounds.

Except, it’s pretty obvious Trump is *not* joking.

I think you and those responding to you are kind of talking past one another, and the point about how sexual preference is defined that you keep defending is rather beside the point.

I will be happy to be corrected, but I think the point TNR was making, and you don't appear to acknowledge, is that in certain circles—…

Umm, he grabbed the African-American woman's arm because she was part of a group of fellow young African-American women slapping a significantly older woman. Not sure how that qualifies as "explaining her values to her."

The way she filmed makes it confusing, but he was the driver. You can clearly see the steering wheel in the frame.

I agree. It's way more interesting than the Phillips essay.

When I was in Saudi Arabia during Desert Storm, the Saudi government put up a cultural tent in our area, and actually made the specific argument that they did, in fact, protect women’s rights better than the West.

I really wish I had kept that pamphlet, or at least had been smart enough to take a picture of it.

Actually, they DO have to pretend they are trying to protect women. But notice how Hawkins slips at first when she writes about the Supreme Court breaking their hearts by ruling against clinic "restrictions." She subsequently deploys the "protecting women" rhetoric.