But whine they did, and whine they will. Because the Republicans are like Trump in a way. The kind of shit that sticks to Democrats just rolls off their backs. That’s why they were able to shut the government down a few times and still win the senate and house, and why they were able to steal Obama’s SCOTUS nomination…

Agree to disagree on whether reading Shakespeare is torture. Yes, the play should be enjoyed by watching it acted out. But reading the text ahead of time, understanding the speeches, recognizing the classical references, knowing the literary criticism, all of that is important as well to appreciating why Shakespeare…

While I agree that schools need to mix things up in their literature classes, Shakespeare transcends being just a “dead white guy”. His work lends itself to the soul of every generation that came after him, and it is so rich that every school of literary criticism can feast on it forever. Credit where credit’s due.

That’s what’s so amazing about it! You totally could make a Crucible production with Clinton as the executed “witch”, and it would certainly be a timely and meaningful play, but it wouldn’t mean what that moron thinks it means.

I don’t think that’s completely true. Plenty of Confederate loyalists in the South were pleased with Booth. And if he ever made it really deep south, he would have probably been able to get away.

Technically those things are battery. Assault means putting someone in fear that bodily harm will occur (with or without contact, such as pulling a gun on someone whether or not they are ultimately shot, they were assaulted), while battery is unwanted contact (like someone spitting in someone’s face; maybe they’re not…

While I don’t mean in any way to downplay the abhorrent way prisoners are treated in the US, our prisons are better than North Korean labor camps. We don’t need to resort to moral relativism to acknowledge the problems in our own country.

So what’s your point? That we shouldn’t feel bad for him or outraged at North Korea for what happened? Because that would be kind of a sociopathic point.

I’m Team Nora Was Telling the Truth. Because the show always had this eerie, unsettling feeling that something beyond our understanding was going on, like I imagine one might feel in a room with an invisible ghost in it. The way the show gave me prickles on the back of my neck was the feeling I fell in love with…

No, Trump is president because he motivated a lot of people to go out and vote against the crooked ugly old bitch who couldn’t even keep her husband’s dick happy. And lots of “progressives” were de-motivated to vote for the corrupt Wall Street shill whose husband had a bad crime bill in the 90s. And a million other…

I hate to be one of those “This is why Trump is president” types, but the negative consequences are that you alienate potential allies, grind down your base, and Trump becomes president.

I agree. But I also see some merit in the argument that sometimes progressives take their outrage too far and cannibalize themselves in the process.

Except O’Reilly got fired for repeatedly sexually harassing many women for years and the public learned about it. Not for the opinions he espoused on his show.

But we were NOT having the same conversations in 2015. Criminal justice reform was progressing and on its way to becoming a bipartisan issue. National marijuana legalization seemed inevitable. The Kochs had even figured out a way to make money on stopping overincarceration. Then Sessions stepped in and suddenly we are…

Probably because, other than just being a law, free speech is also an American value.

That is absolutely horrifying, but would you be equally horrified if you heard a white college professor use the word in the context of a literature or sociology lesson where they explained the context and the perniciousness of the word (even if you believe that white people shouldn’t say it)? And while I understand…

But by saying she doesn’t represent all liberals and that we don’t condone her actions any more than we condone the actions of the right, aren’t we essentially pushing back on the right’s elevation of Griffin to that level? I realize how frustrating it is to be the side that is not hypocritical all the time,…

As we liberals always say in response to conservative racist snowflakes bleating about free speech, the government can’t abridge free speech but private citizens can respond to free speech however they see fit, including condemnation. Trump is a despicable human being but he is also (disgustingly) the president of our…

Your “no real follower of Islam” fallacy doesn’t help. There’s no such thing as an objective, “real” follower of Islam. There are just followers of Islam to a more extreme extent. Islam, like its cousins Christianity and Judaism, is a backwards set of beliefs that is hurting humanity not only with violence but also…

No, of course not, it’s a ceiling we need to break some day. And it tears me up inside of my chest that this is the world we live in, but in 2020, Warren is a risky candidate when faced with the existential threat of a second term for Trump. And I say this as someone who adored Clinton and would still probably vote…