God how I wish this weren’t true, but yeah, they always know just enough to be dangerous but not how Duning-Kruger they are.

No public health hazard was “discovered” in regards to the risks of smoking. Cigarettes have been called coffin nails for well over a century before the anti-smoking crusade. The health risks of smoking were well known. What we got was a bunch of whiny moral busybodies guilt-shaming people into capitulating to their…

And the rights of individuals vs rights of communities is generally an easy one...

There is a difference between “I want you to die for our economy” and “I order you to die for our economy”. It seems that you fail to understand the distinction. The first is offering the individual an option, i.e. the Pro Choice position. The second is commanding obedience to a predetermined result, i.e. the Anti…

Samantha Grasso recently wrote a really good article about how COVID-19 illustrates a long-term conflict in US politics between the rights of individuals and the rights of communities.

The worst-case scenario with coronavirus is not mass death. It’s that people come to accept mass death—to accept that someone will die in the U.S. every 30 seconds as “just how it is.” Yet that is the proposition being thrust on us now.

Husband is using the parties’ funds in an attempt to control Wife and force her into accepting proposals which are not favorable to her.

I guess you haven’t encountered anything about the recently released FBI documents that very strongly suggest that the FBI entrapped Flynn. (An agent openly speculated on whether the goal of the investigation was to uncover the truth or whether it was to just get Flynn to lie and foce him out of his job.) Consider…

We’re more likely to live in urban areas...

Given the many ways our criminal justice system fails sexual assault survivors, this is an extremely unsatisfying answer.

Because what we really, really want to do is establish a precedent of massive whipsaw policy changes with the inauguration of each new administration, maybe even with bloody purges of political undesirables. Each side can do a victory dance over the bloated corpses of their mortal enemies, the Americans, before…

DeVos’s changes to Title IX vastly reduce the responsibility of schools to address sexual harassment, including new guidelines that will require both survivors and the accused to be “cross-examined” in live hearings to “challenge their credibility.”

...the GOP sh*t their pants at the idea of it being even a penny over what someone is typically making.

Yeah, ensuring a stable food supply is going to be a catastrophic setback.

...that favors the owner class and lightly populated former slave-holding regions.

Sexism is a far more pernicious enemy than just some movie villain-esque goonish business villain.

“...Fifa’s own analysis says the 2015 Women’s World Cup was watched by 764m people while the 2014 men’s World Cup was watched by 3.2bn.” (https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/jul/24/usa-women-soccer-equal-pay-bonus-questions )

It would be cute if it wasn’t so very tragic.

Well, crap. That means that all of the AR15s have already been bought. So now where am I supposed to get one?

Yes, please, Canada - go.  Go far, far away.  And when you get there, keep going.