They do. Lesson learned when I was fresh out of college and my first job was as an underpaid reporter for county politics. Real eye opener! Best civics class I ever could have taken. Don’t get me started on FOIA requests!

Corruption always starts small and only grows larger if left unchecked

That’s OK - I’ll be there, protesting on ALL Y’ALL’s behalf!!!

PS - Who will be there January 21 for the protests? I’ll be there

She means that anyone trying to defend the weaker among us, or trying to stand up for civil liberties won’t get the populist rage going on right now. And that by the mere fact of defending EVERYBODY’s civil rights, you serve to enrage those factions who want to feel free to mock, denigrate and abuse the weak without…

Bullshit. It’s how these fuckers got in to begin with. While progressives were cozily concentrating on national politics, tea party freakoids (helped by Koch brothers pseudo “grassroots” funds and Fox News misinformation) began taking over local offices. That started more than 20 years ago. Progressives often think we…

Well said. The whole point of democracy is about working together with EVERBODY, including the people you don’t agree with. It’s ALL compromise

It’s not how it works. Agreed. We need some civics courses, stat

So start a fight instead! Vote these fuckers out of office starting with your local ones

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Time to start planning a trip to North Dakota

Right, but this is a taxpayer funded surgery. And it doesn’t sound like it’s only “bottom” surgery. I’m sure taxpayers would want to know that this f is truly life saving... and i hate to be like this, but she’s a convicted murderer. Why does this woman get her new body off of taxpayers while your girlfriend (I’m…

Yeah, it’s just so expensive. As a taxpayer paying for it, I’m sure they’d want that understanding that everything had been tried

Can’t we just move her to a woman’s prison and accept her as she sees herself?Why is the state funding her $100K surgery? Can we really say that the surgery is in the same category as a gunshot wound or a car accident if we haven’t tried everything?

I have a boyfriend for the first time in 6 years, and the first time since moving to New York where the ratio of straight women to straight men is something like 5x.

That’s fine. I get into this discussion all the time with a friend for whom this book is a favorite. For me, it feels like he built this whole goofy world filled with intellectual asides to hide the emotion. My friend makes the point that for a lot of people addressing emotional stuff is too direct, too vulnerable so…

Infinite Jest seemed so entranced with its own cleverness that it was easy to miss the emotion. Or maybe I just don’t get all the goofiness. The absurdist fauteuil roulant spie squads and special agents poorly gussied up in drag got on my nerves

He didn’t. I saw his response. It was: “The media is the one that makes it about race/gender. Everyone knows boys have it worse. It’s only this article that says different. Giz-ebel. You progressives and your crocodile tears... and oh, I don’t understand math.”

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