BTW the official LDS position on abortion is that elective abortion is a sin, but that no woman should be forced to carry to term a child conceived by nonconsensual relations, nor one incapable of surviving outside of the womb, nor one that would jeopardize the life or even the long-term health of the mother—the …

One of the election postmortems I read mentioned that an awful lot of religiously conservative women ended up voting for Trump simply because Hillary gave them absolutely no wiggle room on the abortion issue. I’m a liberal Mormon, so I’m not completely talking out my ass here; the Mormon blogosphere (“the…

If you are “pro-life” but against the aca/refugee asylum/social safety net, DO US ALL A FUCKING FAVOR and stop pretending your concerns are religious. YOU ARE NOT A CHRISTIAN.

Maybe I’m reaching for a silver lining but I’m at least happy that some of these people were spouting other “pro-life” stances like being against removing health care or the death penalty. I still think they’re wrong on abortion but at least I can appreciate the more logical consistency of their position.

I was really surprised (and pleased) to see my all-girls, Catholic high school promoting teachers, nuns and students who went to the Women’s March last weekend. I know Catholics can go either way these days and around here (Boston area) they’re probably more likely to be anti-Trump, but it made me happy for a second.

she did change her mind like ten minutes later. Gotta give credit when credit is due

The NPD is dying out. The real danger from the right in Germany comes from the AfD, a rightwing populist party that’s been gaining in the polls in some German states.

That’s been in place for years. It’s called a “Dauerbaustelle”.

no, because they don’t say that will never be able to do that, just that right now it isn’t a direct possibility and since they don’t have a single seat in parliament, this seems fairly accurate. As soon as that changes though, they can be outlawed in a snap. It’s fairly unlikely though, the real threats come from…

Here’s a question: To what degree does it matter that these are “legitimately” the tweets of a 7-year-old girl—as opposed to her mother writing in her name for heightened effect? I ask because I’m sure there are lots of people who will get bogged down in skepticism about the veracity of the source of the narrative.

Can we not use terms like “repukes, republicons, obummer, killary...”. It lowers our level of discourse and devalues our statements. Sure, you’re angry, but you will not sway anyone’s opinion by using lame misspellings. I can’t be the only one who stops reading when I encounter this, whether its from the right or…

So basically Chrissy Teigen is being an adult about her husband’s past.

Bad grade in Developmental Psych?

“I’m so very sorry, but when we were stitching you up Dr. WTF sewed his finger to your labia. It didn’t worsen the tear, but fluids mixed and we do need to do an HIV test. After we re-sew.”

His superior was standing right there! After I snapped at him and everyone laughed (including the two doctors) I immediately apologised for being rude about it, but he was all “no no, tell it like it is, that’s cool”- and I hope he learned something about bedside manner from the experience.

He and his superior were both so tickled at the problem presented that they wanted to fix it right away- “hey, we can access your femoral vein through a little cut in the groin and lasso that catheter and pull it into shape! Say, let’s do it RIGHT NOW and save you a trip!” The attending nurse was all “um.. how about…

I could probably produce a whole bunch of tales about this, but I’ll settle for the most recent outing, which contained no less than THREE things you’d rather not hear a doctor say. (And if any of my real-life friends read Jez comments, I’m about to doxx myself, so.)

Okay so it’s not really “gross” and I probably told this story before, but it’s still hilarious to me.

If you don’t want your daughter to hear the word “pussy” maybe don’t let her watch the segment where you’re defending Donald Trump bragging about grabbing women by the pussy. That’s like going on Twitter on a Sunday night and complaining about Game of Thrones spoilers.

......But none of them will denounce their support of Trump. My god, how fucking slimy and greedy do you have to be to want a Republican in the White House?