I’m often tempted to grumble about people who only change their minds after an issue personally affects them. It’s hard to be charitable in these cases. I find it helpful to fall back on the sentiments of one of my favorite columnists, Connie Schultz (and I’m probably badly paraphrasing her here): “We can’t ask people…

I saw an article today that touted how the federal deficit has been cut in half in the last year. IN HALF!!! How is this not in 1500 pt font on the front page of every news outlet? How is it not huge news across the entire country? Oh, because it occurred during a Democratic administration, so it just gets ignored by…

You don’t have to feel sympathy for her. Having people, doesn’t matter who, telling their stories like this is something that unfortunately needs to keep happening from now until election day because the American public has the attention span of a two-year-old, apparently.

The reality is that people like her are the only ones that actually have a CHANCE to change the minds of those around them. The voice has to come from inside the house. Conservatives have done a perfect job of created sealed echo-chambers and creating voters who automatically reject anything said by anyone they…

I wish Celine Dion’s marriage to René Angélil had gotten this kind of scrutiny.

Obviously hopeful that Demings wins, but also wish we didn’t still have to hear the ridiculous “only in America is my story possible” line anymore. It’s absolute nonsense, and that sort of “American exceptionalism” just reinforces the insular thinking that both politicians and the voting public often lean into to…

Having personally witness the kind of abuse she’s describing, I would say this sort of turnaround isn’t uncommon. An abused person in a relationship often wants everything to just course correct and become normal, and when the abuser promises all sorts of things, the victim will grab onto those promises like a life…

Charity exists as a way for the wealthy to wash their hands of bad publicity. What they don’t tell you is that 90% of donated funds don’t go to the people who actually need them, they’re used to run the charitable institutions and pay the salaries of the executives. If she were to donate this money to a charity she’d…

It’s a little odd but one thing that’s a common trend with these kind of abusers is they’ll act very quickly to cover their tracks. They’ll put on their nice face and make amends and say they’ll get help when they’re caught. And sometimes they do... and sometimes it’s just a ploy to keep their victim from actually…

The lede to this piece infers that you were somehow flashed at BravoCon; the reality, as you explain much later in the piece, is that you entered a men’s restroom and looked at their genitals.

I don’t understand the penis in the men’s room complaint. First, you are in the men’s room, due to overcrowding in the women’s room, but the men still have to pee somewhere, just like you did. So them still using the restroom does not seem that egregious.

I question how this remotely destigmatizes anything. He made a some personal porn you can view on a prominent porn site, which you probably wouldn’t visit unless you were fundamentally okay with porn. But he’s not actually a sex worker, and if anything this makes sex work and porn look worse, not better. This wasn’t…

Jesus don’t give either of them that unholy idea. 

Fox & Friends co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy implied that freezing West’s accounts was “totalitarian,” per Mediaite. “We’re in this weird era where people can’t just say what they want to say,” Campos-Duffy said. “This idea you have to just shut down his account is just, it’s totally totalitarian, totally…

Credulously interviewing nuts like this as news is one seriously bizarre thing about our country. 

Have you never met a military spouse or a law enforcement spouse?

Shouldn’t we always have been suspicious of anyone commodifying their family life, wife guy or otherwise? Family life is difficult-enough as it is without the added pressure of making it conform to your brand.

Can we also get rid of the #GirlDad shit as well?

didn’t even know that flute existed until she played it.... so i think she’s doing more for history than those dumb cunts.

I didn’t realize that the Library of Congress loaned out artifacts (or anything really) to be used by individuals, or that Madison had a crystal flute. But whatevs. Not like she broke it or anything.