I respectfully disagree. While I would love a So Cal US Senator, Loretta is a blue dog and used to be a Republican, she will be pretty conservative comparatively. Moreover, a little bit of context for having so many No Cal elected officials, LA has been Democratic only in the last generation. No Cal has a more…

I think you’re misunderstanding the proposal; this would remove statutes of limitations, but it would not shift the burden of proof onto the accused. The prosecution still has to build a case of evidence. An accusation wouldn’t count for any more in an older case than it does for a more recent crime.

I don’t understand this reasoning at all. They’re not asking for the burden of proof to be lowered, so if evidence and memories on which testimony rests degrade over time, this will make it much harder to reach a burden of proof, not easier. The result will be a few more cases heard before the court which may have…

Dude, my condolences. Babies. Pooping. Nope, nope, nope. Here is a pretty mesmerizing gif to cheer you up:

Ironically, if they were blacklisted, it would be almost impossible to tell :-/

I don’t want to get too crazy about this, but I have a friend called “Ananda” so I wanted to google the meanings of all these Amanda-type names. Amanda means, apparently, one who is worthy of love, while Amada is the less-passive, less-object name meaning “one who loves [God]”. Can’t really fault them for that, and,…

My mom spent at least ten Hanson concerts reading novels in the back. She loves me too much.

Tom Morello is the shit. Definitely the most talented member of Rage. I read that piece a while back but I forgot about it and how wonderful it was.

Right, but we DON’T have a democracy. That’s the point. We have a democratic republic, within which two parties decide who we’re going to vote for in a general election (with more or less influence depending on how stupid their constituents are being), and even then they leave in an emergency brake in the form of the…

There are many things in the American government that are “voter suppression.” The president can veto a bill even if it passed Congress. Supreme court justices can hand down rulings that reject or re-interpret a bill. Congress can override the president. It’s all checks and balances, any of whom could easily be…

The superdelegates exist essentially to stop someone like Trump from hijacking the party’s nomination. They do not commit until the day of the convention on the floor of the convention — they can publicly say they’re supporting someone but they’re not pledged and they could change their mind on the convention floor…

There is nothing at all questionable about the superdelegate process. The superdelegates exist, essentially, to prevent something like Donald Trump from happening to the Democratic party. That’s why they fall in line with the popular vote in every single election — if the candidates are not objectionable, their…

I mean... or we could refer to Anne Wojcicki’s own (not insignificant) accomplishments like 23andme and not treat her like another man’s former property. Please and thank you.

I have so much respect for those two lady detectives who spearheaded the effort. They really deserve an award or something.

I was just about to share a link to that show! They did a great job of demonstrating what can go wrong with police handling of rape cases. These things can get so contentious that it was really refreshing to have them “show” rather than tell (well, it’s radio, so it was technically telling, but you know what I mean)…

On the other hand, my family’s been in the states since the 1800s, but I kind of have to live with the notion that I’m not welcome in conversations of American-ness. People look at me like I’m some monster, conducting some inverse cultural-appropriation, by calling myself all-American.

I guess what I’m wondering here is - how is Macabasco defining Asian bloggers here? Her main example, Susie Bubble, grew up Chinese diaspora and would presumably have a much different outlook than a Chinese person who grew up in China. I also don’t follow many fashion bloggers/instagrammers so I’m dealing a little in…

If Asians sometimes remain silent in the face of racism, and if some seem to work unusually hard in the face of this difficult history, it is not because they want to be part of a “model minority” but because they have often had no other choice.

One point I’d like to add is that Asian Americans have not had many unifying experiences like the Civil Rights Movement. There also hasn’t been a lot of mixing of ethnicities and cultures making us a more fragmented race than others. So thinking of us as bloc, as having an “Asian perspective” would be inappropriate.…