A question I put to purpleprose78 elsewhere, but which might be worth posing to you:

Let me just ask you one question, did your paycheck when you were 27 go further than it did when you were 22? If it did, then different boats are being inhabited here.

Maybe you should look up a few facts about the economic situation and realise that people who entered the labour market since 2008 have experienced the most precipitous drops in real income seen since the Great Depression, something that has not been shared by people who entered before 2008.

Yes, I'm sure that the story of useless MFAs has been a major part of the story of millions of people who have entered the job market since 2008, most of whom don't even have college degrees...

You haven't, though. I think the important thing to understand is that wages have basically fallen off a cliff since 2008 for entry level positions. Real incomes for young people have fallen faster than at any time since the Great Depression, so unless you entered the job market in 1930, you have NOT been through…

It's more that horsemeat poses a far greater public health hazard. Or, to be more accurate, illicit horsemeat. Cows aren't being treated with the same cocktail of veterinary drugs that a lot of horses receive. These drugs are great for the horses and as long as they aren't entering the food chain they do wonders to…

The main fear is that, when they uncovered this, they discovered a rather illicit supply chain. This is really, really problematic for horse-meat (way more than all other meats) because there is a good chance that horses which are raised for riding, companionship, etc. are entering the food chain. Most of these horses…

I will say that clubbing alone sucks but you know what is great when you're alone? A gig, especially if it's a bit rowdy. You don't feel so out of place if you just nod and watch and if it's boisterous people aren't really paying attention to their friends anyway. Plus you can easily start a conversation with new…

I'm not suggesting that Americans begin taxpayer funding of faith schools, I just think that even in this context it would be sensible to accept the presence of religion in schools in areas which want that.

But in discussing the consequences is there no possibility that an aggressive application of this principle may have inflamed these cultural battles? As I've said in another comment, just because it is a constitutional provision doesn't mean common sense goes out the window. I argue that in the United States it would…

It is the US we're talking about, but I still fail to see how a needlessly reified constitutional provision abrogates people thinking sensibly (or perhaps that should be sensitively?).

Why, if the public in question is religious? These things aren't a binary choice between no religion whatsoever and Taliban-with-a-crucifix. As ever with these things, a sense of proportion is lost. If she was being excluded, shunned or being told that she was less than other students because she was atheist that…

It was a public school (or, as we say, state school), though, it was funded by the taxpayer and operated under the auspices of the Local Education Authority.

And you're being a self-righteous warrior of America's internecine cultural wars.

I'm not sure, one of my friends, a practicing Catholic, attended a Jewish school when she was at secondary. She did well there, got to become friendly with a religious community she otherwise wouldn't have got to know very well and walked away with some funny stories (like a rabbi on a school trip to the Imperial War…

Is it? I've often found that it's the other way around.

This.

Not at all, in fact it's largely wrong. Soviet-era identity papers noted the 'nationality' of someone's origin. Jewish was considered a nationality and that is the basis of the Aliyah claims of most/all Russians who headed to Israel.

If your mother was not a Jew, then you are not considered Jewish under civil law. For hundreds of thousands of Russian-origin Israelis who were 1/4 Jewish and thus eligible to immigrate but not Jewish enough to be registered as Jews then they are denied a rather wide range of services. Not just marriage, but also…

I am gonna ask, what other countries are duping/forcing women not to have children by virtue of their race?