Huh? This has nothing to do with Dr. Luke being “held liable by the government.” That would be a criminal trial. That’s literally what defines criminal trials as criminal trials. These are civil suits between Kesha and Dr. Luke - the government isn’t a party to any of them. The whole point of the legal right to an…

People with hooded eyes like hers sometimes need surgery on them as they get older to keep their vision from becoming significantly impaired. So it’s very possible that phrasing was “I’m not going to lie and outright say, ‘I didn’t have any surgery,’ but the exact details of my medical situation are none of your…

:)

Leaving aside all the important feminist discussion for the moment (that’s not sarcasm, I’m just too sleepy to say anything intelligent), that photo of Gavin Newsom’s kid is fucking adorable.

Some years ago, I saw a show by a magician/“psychic.” I put the word “psychic” in quotes because he did, too - he was entirely upfront about how he absolutely wasn’t psychic and everything he did was trickery. He did a lot of “mind-reading” - think of a number, think of a color, think of a person you know, and so on…

There are a staggeringly large number of people who think mocking someone for being disabled is hilarious. They have a lot of overlap with the staggeringly large number of people who think that calling fat people pigs is hilarious, suggesting that women are all bitches whose opinions should be dismissed because…

...but she specifically says there was something up with her: she was still young and insecure and derived her self-esteem from the people she dated. Which is exactly the situation in which that reaction “makes sense,” in the sense that it is an understandable reaction.

I think it can really depend on the circumstances (and, often, on the ages of the people involved). If you’re well into adulthood, have healthy self-esteem, and have been casually dating the other person for a few months, it’s almost certainly not going to hit you particularly hard at all, but if you’re young and…

His facial expressions are killing me. Amazing.

Wow. I genuinely don’t think I could have deciphered any of those if I didn’t have options to choose from. As it was, I only got 6/10, and that was largely by picking the things that seemed like they could be actual lyrics even when it actually sounded much more like one of the ridiculous choices (e.g. “I may crash on…

I like these stories. Much as I like the fact that an 87-year-old family member and longtime Fox News viewer whom I’m pretty sure has literally never voted for a Democrat in her life recently told me, “I never thought I’d say this, but...I...I think I’m going to vote for Hillary Clinton.” She still very clearly…

“Ad hominem” means attacking a person rather than their argument. “Your argument is dumb” is, by its very definition, not an ad hominem. And using “some Clinton supporter said something crappy” as an argument against Clinton herself is a really bad argument. There are plenty of people voting for any given candidate…

Because that is what makes them happy.

I think people are confused about this point because they can’t believe you are actually making an argument quite that dumb.

I don’t disagree with this, but we’re talking about civil lawsuits here, not a criminal trial. There is no constitutional right to have an attorney help you sue people or defend against a lawsuit, and I’m pretty okay with people thinking that a litigator who chooses to take on this particular client is probably an…

Sure! And if you’re robbed at gunpoint, you should definitely try to fight the robbers rather than just hand over your money so they don’t shoot you. I mean, if robbery victims don’t fight back, robbers will just continue to rob people! Sure, you might get killed, but won’t that have been a small price to pay for…

Yup. Roger Ailes & his cohort may actually be committed to pushing right-wing crap, but I get the impression that Rupert Murdoch’s political/moral opinions largely boil down to “I like money.”

This. And, more importantly, the internet means that these days, that conditioning starts really, really young. I have absolutely zero problem with adults enjoying any and all sorts of consensual sex acts and depictions thereof, but I do worry about the fact that, for a whole hell of a lot of kids, porn is their first…

I’d guess it’s just a relatively mild case of essential tremor. That’s fairly common and typically worsens with age, so if he said it’s an “age-related condition,” essential tremor would make sense.

For starters? Suggesting that all victims of abuse are weak and somehow “got themselves” into the situation of being abused, both of which are victim-blaming bullshit. It doesn’t sound like you’re setting much of an example for your children if what you’re teaching them is “It’s not okay to hit people, but, I mean, if…