For a lot of people - Marie Le Pen - perhaps, that's true. But most who've moved to France were desperate to come there and will need great incentive to return.

I do hope you’re a Muslim woman because this ban is not about men and women but what is and is not French in the minds of xenophobes.

The thing is, as the post makes clear, there's been an overreach and a broadening of what those two things mean. If you're interested in maintaining them, you need to be equally committed to identifying the lines.

I have to think it should be less. She has paid the price already with her life. Would we charge a woman who escaped a rapist captor with murder if that’s the only way she was able to escape?

I think this is more proof that intention needs to be the main reason people get shit. And we can usually tell who's intentions are good and who's a secret racist.

I get the need to report this, but is it really that surprising? If you’re looking at it by the numbers, this basically comes out to “Republicans think sexism is over”.

Come on...I’m speaking to the specific circumstance of romantic and sexual life. Men do not have to fear women.

I waded through Metzgers rants - I’m not sure how many people here have - and he’s clearly trying to be incendiary. He has, in his own way that must of us wouldn’t accept, walked back his statements to claiming his objection is to the way social media fans the flames of a situation that is yet to be based on evidence.

Erm...the number of people in that spectrum is not large enough that it will upend basic rules and regulations to athletic events. We live in a world we increasingly recognize as complex, but allowing anyone to go to the bathroom where they feel they should is a world away from opening the door to this in athletic…

Then you’re ahead of the curve in basketball.

The Olympics normalize places though. It puts Rio on the same ground as any other host city. I think it will hurt Brazil. The whole situation is bizarre.

I admit I’ve watched less than the average interested viewer. But that’s not a lot less. Anytime I’m around my sister for more than a day I’ve probably watched a half dozen episodes.

Thing is he's a dum dum and she's probably a nightmare of a person in real life. Point is that she's gotta have some baggage for that to work.

The thing is we’ve really turned to comedians to be the purveyors of news and culture. Wilmore was a unique voice on the news and culture front, but the show was not funny. The reality is that the peak Daily Show and Colbert Report audience was, yes, fairly educated. The people who populated those shows were educated…

I’m making no comment on the case and this situation with my comment, but I think the old “there’s a lot I’s” therefore that’s selfish thing doesn’t have a lot of play in reality. It’s a convenient, easy to digest dismissal. I don’t think it’s sound reasoning though.

Tom honestly does strike me as phoney, but I love his work professionally. He's charming. That often comes with baggage.

The opposite of sex appeal? She was built like a model. Her first records played it safe as, probably, both a reflection of her own youth and as she got slightly older the cultivation of an audience.

Uh huh

Huh?

When and how has she done that?