Yeah, tired of the police blasting their teenagers in the street.

The whole debate is beyond weird to me. There's a huge segment of society that distrusts the government so much that if a non-politician connected to the president advocates healthy eating, they think it's suspect and "un-American." Even though retired generals (who in this patriotism-worship culture are treated like…

It's possible his only frame of reference is petite women. It's more likely that he just threw it out there assuming everyone on Fox hated Michelle Obama and her food policies as much as him and would enjoy a pile-on, was surprised to find out even Fox has a limit, and is now doubling down on being a jackass.

There are plenty of non-nutso, left wing Christian sects that welcomed gay marriage, gay priesthood, social justice, etc well before mainstream society.

Why not just join the twenty first century (or even the mid-twentieth century) and go to a normal sex-loving university, rather than complain that your regressive religion and its school are regressive?

I grew up in a city of about 800,000 (then) and lived near, but not in, one of the sketchy parts of town. I roamed starting at about age nine with no problems. Kids don't tend to go too far on their own, I think, and I was never inclined to set out toward the sketchy part and see if I could find a drunk who would…

The more appropriate analogy would be standing out in a field playing little league on a sunny day. You could still be struck by lightning but the odds are beyond low.

What the fuck are you talking about? As a nine-year-old (somewhat) recently I roamed around all the time.

I don't get why it's not cool to let a nine-year-old play in a park by themselves. A nine-year-old is not a three-year-old.

I think it was probably designed for a size 2 woman, and would look bad on a size 6 or size 12 woman, so they won't ever put those pictures up.

High-end escorts making tens of thousands a night are the exception, I think. Plus actually prostituting poses risk to your health and safety. For camming, those problems evaporate, but there is still a stigma, like there is on strippers. If that stigma evaporated, camming would make sense, until everyone started…

You can have sex with someone of a gender you're not attracted to. Lots of gay kids do it when they are experimenting / trying to convince themselves they aren't really gay.

How does the ideal sex ed class work in your mind? Teacher: "Vaginal sex between men and women puts the woman at risk of pregancy and is generally more disease-risky than oral sex." Kids: "What is vaginal sex, what is oral sex?" Teacher: "Never mind."

"Subtle cues," not "subtle queues." Is decent copy editing too much to ask?

Yeah, that's why I said that 'justified' needs a context. If the facts you just said are true, parts of the response wouldn't be justified under international law. If I were an Israeli though and had a little kid who had to run to a bomb shelter, I wouldn't particularly care that we had more firepower — I would want…

"Justified" needs a context. Justified under international law? Probably using flechettes in a city would be illegal, if I were the judge, but the case has no prospect of being brought. Accidentally killing civilians is normal in all war (deliberately targeting them is not) but I don't have first hand knowledge of the…

I know what a burner is, my point is that I'm not going to get into an Internet debate on two complicated issues with a rando Internet commenter.

I think that was you, actually.

I am not going to debate the moral correctness of the strategic air campaign and atomic bombing of Japan, with someone named "burner." Your opinion is similar to one I had when I was a teenager, so I sympathize with it.

"Justify" and "explain" mean two different things.