Honestly, I think the divide is probably less about precisely where in the country one lives (although I’m sure being somewhere with a large Japanese-American population helps) than about whether one was fortunate enough to go to a good school or have good teachers. I grew up pretty far east of the Rockies in a very…

It is absolutely the least horrible thing about him and all of this, but Jesus Christ, how does someone as staggeringly narcissitic as Trump apparently never look in a mirror? He legitimately looks like someone smeared orange food coloring on his cheeks, forehead, and chin and then forgot to do the part in the middle.

It’s not segregation in the same way that Black History Month doesn’t oppress white people. Privileged groups have all the other spaces. Letting students of color have one space to themselves where no white people with the best intentions will come in and tell them how articulate they are or try to touch their hair,…

Yep. Men’s complaints mean something needed to be complained about. Women’s complaints mean they’re bitchy, hysterical, oversensitive, taking things personally, impolite, crazy, nagging, on the rag, or any of a hundred other words and phrases that all effectively mean “shut up and know your place.”

“I do think we have a psychic connection, a deeper connection with Donald Trump, in a way we simply do not have with most Republicans.”

I think it’s probably moderately noteworthy insofar as no one in the world believes that he’s close to Donald “I won’t do anything to take care of them - I’ll supply funds and she’ll take care of the kids” Trump. It’s pretty pathetic that “one of his parents apparently thinks of him as more than just another object to…

Oh, good. Have a good one yourself! :)

Oh, I hope you didn’t interpret my post as anything other than “Man, if BoredEsq somehow had the power to determine star numbers, setting it at Neo-Nazis’ favorite number would be a damn clever way of underlining the ‘oh yeah, people definitely send Jewish female writers disgusting racist, sexist, threatening garbage…

Beautifully said. I’ve been quoting “The New Colossus” at Trump supporters and their ilk for years, because THAT is the vision of America I believe in and will damn well fight for.

...I almost feel bad starring this, because until I did, it was at a remarkably appropriate “1488.”

Why on earth would anyone dread the world knowing that they have a belly button? We all have them. They’re not some sort of mark of shame. I cannot imagine deliberately making myself much more uncomfortable with elastic torture devices solely to prevent anyone from discerning the fact that I am a mammal. That seems…

I am disproportionately irritated that that article says she was auditioning for the role of “[Marius’s] lover, Eponine.” EPONINE IS NOT HIS LOVER (except in the very literal sense that she is a person who feels love for him)! He is not into her like that! The only “romantic” moment between them consists of her being…

Ignoring every other ridiculous thing about your comment for the moment, how on earth do you know she had unprotected sex? Were you there in the room at the time? Your public school sex ed appears to have failed you if what you learned is that all forms of birth control are 100% foolproof and no one has ever once…

It also doesn’t mean she did have access. We are making judgments from a limited amount of data. What we know is that it is excessively difficult to get an abortion in Tennessee, that it is expensive and cannot be covered by insurance, that many women live nowhere near a clinic and yet are forced to visit clinics…

Alt-Reich?

If anyone wants to know more about Victorian London, poop, cholera, and the infamous Broad Street pump, this book is a pretty good read:

Presumably because the DA thinks that there’s a better chance of getting a conviction for the lesser offense. I’m not a lawyer and I absolutely should not be taken for anything resembling an expert on this, but reading the manslaughter laws in Minnesota, a manslaughter 1 charge looks significantly less open-and-shut…

I don’t think the slippery-slope argument really works here, because the Senate and House are specifically designed to represent regional constituencies. I think everyone accepts that it makes sense that only people from Kansas should vote on who will represent the people of Kansas in Congress. We only have one…

Respectively: somewhat (I would almost certainly be thinking something to the effect of “the electoral college is still an outdated system and we should get rid of it, but thank god it saved us from disaster this time”), and yes, I did. I’ve thought it was an outdated system for pretty much as long as I’ve been old…

The problem is that it doesn’t give the “little guy” a voice. It gives little states a voice. Millions and millions of people are specifically denied a voice by an electoral college system because they are liberals in red states or conservatives in blue ones. And there was a case to be made that this made sense back…