It’s a textbook example of persuasion by emotional manipulation in the near-total absence of objective facts, precisely because most of those facts directly oppose the ‘favored narrative’. Republican POTUSes make the deficit and economy worse, Democrat POTUSes clean it up but take flak from Republicans in the House…

Never in my life have I been so grateful to be socially disconnected, to the point that I am invariably that last one to hear any such rumors; by the time they get to me, they’ve been thoroughly debunked.

Now, now, one should not wish ill upon another, even an ideological opponent. Having said that, I do think that she should investigate CBD oils for mood-regulation. Whether she’ll go down the ‘slippery slope’ of ‘antheogens’ is another matter entirely, though I must admit a certain morbid curiosity as to whether a…

It’s showmanship, more than anything else. They’ll use these kinds of shenanigans in their presentations to other pharmaceutical companies, to demonstrate the kind of “mud” storm they can and will stir up if the company being feted (read: blackmailed) doesn’t toe the Republican party-line.

There hasn’t been a Republican office-holder with a college degree worth the paper it’s printed on since the Reagan Administration, and “Saint Ronald” did his level best to run those out of the club. And it really seems like the last two decades have borne witness to the GOP-ers leadership realizing that their…

Hee hee hee... Young Gaetz needs to be careful about flinging that particular insult at women so often...

As delightful as the sentiment may be, that still requires a thorough legal analysis.

Agreed. It’s been the GOP’s strategy at least since the Great Re-Seating after LBJ (a Democrat) passed the Civil Rights Act; the dyed-in-the-wool white supremacists infesting the Democrat party of the day abandoned the party en masse and tried to form their own “Dixiecrat Party”. That failed badly enough that they…

I have nothing but the greatest respect for RuPaul as an artist, an enterpreneur and as a person.
I would not be able to endure spending five consecutive minutes inside his house without breaking down in tears and begging to be let out. How in the name of all that is sacred and fine can anyone string together coherent…

Chalk it up to an utter lack of true understanding of what “zen” is supposed to mean, carefully cultivated by the gatekeepers to make sure that the ‘conspicuous consumption’ lifestyle remains at the forefront of cultural awareness and desire.

Re: Hillary Duff’s expectation of ‘no framed photos’ on the wall.
It’s not that hard to believe. I know nothing about her family life, but let’s just say I know a few people who would sooner set their just-bought homes on fire than hang framed photos of some family-members on their walls. And others simply have a…

I recommend sekanjebin; it’s simple enough to make at home, but serves as a very versatile base for different flavor combinations:

**deep, hollow voice of despair**

It’s a relatively straightforward ‘emotional transaction’. She gets the kind of attention she wants, from the people who think she is better than them, and ‘shielding’ from criticism.

Don’t forget those electric toothbrushes and battery-operated “shavers”... (with the condom over the non-shaving end, of course)

I remember reading what someone thought was a hilarious comment on ‘the state of the world today’ from just before the turn of the millennium:

A guy goes into the drugstore and loudly announces to the pharmacist, “I would like to buy a box of condoms!” Then lowers his voice to whisper, “... and a box of cigarettes...”

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That’s the point: “life” could be defined as ‘self-sustaining activity at the cellular level’, but that leaves a very wide loophole: the same standard applies to cancer-cells as well as embryos. Ultimately, the conflict is PHILOSOPHICAL, rather than ‘scientific’.
Pro-choice people value a woman’s right to sovereignty…

Agreed. I must say I take bitter amusement that the GOP-ers who keep screaming that “the facts don’t care about your feelings” when disagreeing with... well, anyone... seem to uphold the diametric opposite standard for themselves: “my feelings don’t care about your facts!”

Part of it stems with cultural programming to equate ‘meat’, particularly beef, with ‘wealth’ and ‘success’. A lot of Americans use the phrase “all hat and no cattle” to describe someone as putting on a show of wealth but having nothing to back it up. “All shine and no gold” may communicate the same point but doesn’t…