Remember, kids: Midterm elections exist and they matter. Get out and vote this year, and then do it again in 2018.

“It’s hard to explain why, despite their own calls for funding, Democrats would block plans to keep women and babies safe from Zika,”

I prefer “female” to modify a noun — it just sounds more grammatically correct to me — but my editors disagree and changed it.

Well, we can’t think for ourselves. If we could, we would wear almost nothing so we could be men’s objects and not think for ourselves. My mind hurt thinking about that. Ugh.

Criticism of France’s confounding racist/sexist birkini backlash is not criticism of secularism in general. Secularism is noble, this is fucking bullshit.

and you are free to believe just that

“Uncle Ruckus... No relation.”

What a great description! Stolen.

Susan Faludi’s book Backlash talks about Phyllis a lot, along with several other anti-feminist activist women in the eighties. One of the things that links a lot of these women together is that they are granted privelage by the patriarchy, sometimes considerable privelage, provided they throw feminism under the bus.…

“And, before you balk, here’s the reason why.” I’ll drink one under your multi-layered shade, this bitch’s brew. Nicely done.

+a thousand words

The woman who made a career out of saying women shouldn’t have careers.

Actually, here’s a much better choice of beverage:

We also have the freedom to kneel if we want to when we hear the anthem. Or turn our backs. Or dance a jig. Those people died for her freedom to do that too.

The first thing civil rights activists don't do is compare atrocities among the oppressed.

Well a person of interest could be a witness or someone else that is suspected to have knowledge of the crime or those involved in it. So it’s a bit misleading to not call the suspect a suspect regardless of whether the are also a person of interest.

Nope. I can’t speak for everywhere (regulations vary state-by-state, I believe), but a relative of mine went to a fairly prestigious cosmetology school and this kind of intricate braiding was not part of the curriculum. I am very okay with having regulation in place over establishments that use chemicals (dyes, perms)…

I have gay family members and gay friends. I’m a huge advocate for anti-discrimination laws for LGBT+ people. I proudly consider myself an ally.