Back when I was dating men, I was shopping at the grocery store with my roommate. After some light banter with the checkout guy, he said, you’re really cute, do you have a boyfriend? (No.) Oh, would you like to go out some time? It was really sweet and charming. Being asked out in person, during the day, kind of felt…

Just goes to show that you can’t buy class...

Heh... It was a bad stock market joke

I'd rather put chickens than call them...

Talk about a diamond in the rough

I'm thinking of demanding 40 camels.

Yay, I’m glad to get attention because I hate being in the greys! That being said, I’m wondering if you’re interested in discussing the nuances and logic of the differences in our opinions, or whether you just posted to register your disagreement? If just wanting to chime in with strong disagreement, that’s okay, too!

I don’t have a huge stake in this or anything but I don’t think my friend was a pathological liar. I mean, it’s totally possible she made it up but I don’t have any reason to believe that. BTW I didn't mean theater circle as a technical term, I meant they ran in the same circles, went to the same auditions (my friend…

Eff that noise — I'll bet your husband is amazing!!

It’s so hard for the courts to tell when this is the case. 20 years ago the situation was so biased against my dad that he had to fight like hell to get even 50-50 custody of us, even though my borderline mother was emotionally and physically abusive. Systems are complicit, evidence is hard to get. He spent a huge…

I’m sorry. This is the worst. I hope he gets to see more of them someday.

I’m so glad Emma Watson turned out okay. Back when we were all in our teens (I am aging with the HP kids. It’s weird.) I had an English friend who had been in Emma’s theater circle. She had some horrible stories to share. I chalked it up to jealousy and gossip until some story of Emma being rude to her cast mates made…

Ooh yes and Bernie wants to do it with a trading tax and rescue our financial system from the pro-wealthy corruption that is high frequency trading. No other dem has the backbone to take this on, except for possibly Mother Warren (praise be and pray for 2020).

This is why I'm a huge fan of Bernie, but I think he has a big branding problem. He needs to better explain to people how this would actually be good for our economic system!

I share your frustration at her bigotry and agree this woman is curtailing others’ rights to access marriage and should be stopped. I understand now that she is preventing her employees from issuing licenses and that is clearly illegal and immoral. So would be refusing to teach a certain classification of children, or…

It’s been nice engaging with you, thanks for taking a chance on someone in the greys! :) I think you make some very good points. To me, it’s also an open and closed case against her. I still think there’s potential for a sliver of grey area, for someone who merely wants to avoid going against their personal sincere…

Yeah I love your point about how she’s skimming the pages of life. In my fantasy ideal world we would have a self-actualization tour around the Bible Belt, led by gay missionaries. Someone throw some money at that shiz!

We do indeed provide reasonable exceptions in the name of religion for government employees. I’m not religious (culturally Jewish) but it has been an important part of our pluralistic society, when done correctly. There may be a correct solution to her issue—her way is a bad one, but there could be a reasonable…

I’ll hold my nose to make this argument because I don’t like spending my time arguing for someone whose beliefs are so repugnant. I do feel there are important principles at stake here that we could potentially find a way to uphold, while still ensuring gay rights.

Thank you! I’ll admit that at times I can be a little pathological in my quest to understand “the other side”, but I also firmly believe we are way too polarized in this country in the way that we discuss these issues. We don’t appreciate the art of respectful debate and respect for differences of opinion as much as…