I cannot tell you how much it infuriates me that this asshole gets out of the grays. Meanwhile, I’ve been sent back to gray hell for reasons I don’t understand. There has to be a better system.

Think of all of the women that have been drug in and out of family court and had CFS invade their home and question the love they have for their kids because of a character that they play while dancing without clothes. And yet this man who has actively perpetrated a conspiracy that got a pizza parlor shot up wants to…

That’s true, I hadn’t thought of Stephen Colbert when I was writing about this, and you’ve articulated really well what the differences are. I also think that we’d think differently if he was ever embroiled in custody battle with an ex wife who was claiming that all that stuff was his real personality, and his show…

Stephen Colbert genuinely did this - played a character who held views different from his own, under his name, in a performance art way. But the line between real person and character could be found in out of character interviews, in winking aspects of the show, in it’s clearly delineated beginning and end times, his…

I think there’s a difference here between Alex Jones and say, Roman Polanski (and this isn’t a commentary on whether I think we can separate the art from the man in that instance, just where the difference lies). Roman Polanski (or Woody Allen, or Mel Gibson, or hell, Chris Brown or Bill Cosby) made a thing that’s…

Ugh, this is the bloated consummation of “I was just joking, jeez!” gaslighting and the fuckboy’s inability to comprehend that actions have consequences.

ETA: corrected typo

I was on tap for jury duty starting today. After reading an article about this last night, in the local paper that specified that juror selection would begin this morning, I had been terrified that I would end up on this case. Luckily I got released. I would think his lawyer would love to have a woman on the jury…

Hot Take: I think “unconstitutional shit” in the face of slavery should get a pass.

If you fancy that that fetus has rights, and you call that fetus a person and a baby, I don’t agree with that from a scientific or even from a religious standpoint. But we can debate about whether or not a fetus is a person. But there’s no question that a woman is a person. And so the question is: At what point is a…

He explains the pro-choice and Christianity dynamic so well! The Good Samaratin analogy really makes sense. In my high school, the religion teacher (Catholic) wanted to go and protest at an abortion clinic. I remember thinking how scared and humiliated (I can’t think of a different word for what I am trying to…

My god, where did all this dust come from?

Thanks, Yesha. These photos are so touching.

I think it’s funny that the same book (Where the Wild Things Are) is shown year after year. I’m guessing it was his daughters’ favorite book growing up and the one he can really get into character when reading.

The thing that doesn’t have to happen is dragging a 69-year-old man off of the plane and giving him a probable concussion. Also, reports are that he has in-patients, not patients coming in for a well-person check-up or anything. Assaulting an elderly man who assaulted no one and just wanted to use the service he…

I cannot believe people defending united on this. In no world should this have happened. So if I’m brought the wrong meal at a restaurant and complain loudly, can their security punch me? Are we a country so obsessed with authority and corporate autocracy that this is ok?? The man is 69! It could have been my mom!…

They don’t need to get him off the plane. They (arguably, because it was their own people who needed accommodation) needed someone off the plane. Bodily removing a passenger should not be on the list of options unless the passenger is themselves violent or a danger to others.

Re: the terrible-ness of the “please contact law enforcement.” Buzzfeed did contact Chicago PD, who referred them to an aviation dept, who referred them to TSA, who referred them back to Chicago PD.

Planned Parenthood Federation, which provides medical services, is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit which can and does receive medicaid reimbursement. Planned Parenthood Action Fund, which does lobbying and political work, is a 501 (c) (4) which means it cannot receive tax money and is not a tax deductible charity.

Your conception of the Planned Parenthood funding structure is incorrect.