Fetuses don’t breath. Their oxygen is supplied through their mother’s blood. It’s also how they get painkillers during a surgical abortion so, assuming there even is higher brain function to process the stimuli, they aren’t feeling any pain during the procedure. Fetal pain is nothing but concern trolling pushed by…

Extensive campaigns courtesy of the US ironically enough. We funded and instrumented vast public vaccination campaigns for the entire continent for decades as a matter of national security. Now it’s all being undermined by people who should absolutely know better, and getting a huge boost from general paranoia about…

I call it the Mad Men paradox; you can finally get the story right with the proper framing, criticism, and honesty, but it still carries baggage from all the old shitty versions in the minds of audiences making it part of the problem. 

There’s never been a case on record of it. The whole reason bathrooms are an issue for sexual harassment/assualt is because 1. they’re often isolated, and 2. voyeurs explicitly there to see people do their business. Gender segregation has no bearing on the first, and the availability of cameras means the second can…

Oversite committee is a good idea. I think Delta cares that new management that isn’t necessarily experienced in how to run an airport will probably impose some dumb as fuck ideas. It’s definitely a devil-you-know situation.

Country and arguably bluegrass didn’t exist before the influence of African music brought by black slaves. Even skiffle and hobo music was a long way from European folk.

True, but do you really see that stopping under a governor-chosen board? Jason is right that it’s just going to shift the grift towards new pockets. Personally, I don’t see risking Delta’s good graces for new and different corruption as worth it.

Quietly faded away into never-Trump decorum when the party got taken over by the populist racists? That’s what every other ‘but my taxes’ rich fuck is doing.

When the Spotlight story broke a lot of people pointed out that the Catholic church didn’t have higher incidences of sexual abuse than any other church, school, or other organization with a lot of children; it was just the extent of the coverup that was so shocking. Honestly, I think the sex abuse scandal managed to…

It’s right there in the deregulation part. A lot of states already have lower standards for religious childcare institutions. Much like vouchers, this billion dollars will open the door for every stripmall church to throw one old lady and 30 kids into a room and get a kickback for their daycare facility.

Excuse me, this is about childcare, not crime statistics. It’s a waste of a billion dollars to subsidize welfare queens and lowlifes.

It comes down to reasonable distrust vs. anti-science garbage. We need medical care, and healthy, rational skepticism of the medical industry should push for reformation, not total avoidance with a dose of paranoia. As bad as the medical industry is (and it is terrible) the alternative medicine industry is worse. For…

She undoubtedly learned some crap at home, but I keep coming across a sort of dogwhistle generation gap where not extremely-online parents are shocked to find their kids spouting conspiracy shit like Holocaust denial. They don’t realize that 1. teens are dealing with a propaganda deluge of this crap, and 2. they…

Yes. They flesh out the characters better and that improves the jokes a lot. Skip ahead to second season and watch Guns, Pills and Birds, or Halloween Theft and you’ll know if the show is going to be for you. It’s a really soft humor that rewards rewatches and investment in the characters, sort of a Park and Rec but in…

A year later and you people are still coming after me with this petty bullshit. Show me on the doll where black cultural contributions touched you because I’m having a hard time thinking of any other reason for you to be this fucking stupid.

Maybe it’s just my experience but actual militant socialists take anti-racism pretty seriously. The worst of the Bernie-bros never seemed that militant, just white dudes who only now discovered politics are important after someone dangled some economic justice in front of them the might directly effect their lives.

I mean, his real greatest achievement was making Paul Ryan look like the jumped-up moron that he really is. But like most old dems, he couldn’t hold onto smack-talking the obvious liars and charlatans of the right and fell back into shitty decorum speak. It doesn’t make you look presidential, older dems, just stupid…

That particular case in SF was apparently a breaking point for the preservationists. They dragged him to court and the judge ordered him to rebuild the house exactly as it was with a plaque explaining how this was only a replica because his dumb ass knocked the original down.

You say that, but all I can think is of that asshole in SF who bought a house on the historical registry and was explicitly told he could expand it but had to retain the original structure as a first floor. He knocked the whole thing down.

Some friends and I once stumbled into an empty bar that was doing karaoke and the dj came up to our group and begged us to sing because the only other person in there was a really drunk dude singing Stained over and over again.