Although (my source:Quinones’ Dreamland) the opioid epidemic has had an unexpected silver lining of encouraging formerly tough-on-crime places to move toward diversion and treatment rather than jail. When everyone has an addict in the family, it’s a lot tougher for politicians to get elected on a platform of being a…

My only beef with Friends is it’s gratingly unfunny and dumb. I don’t expect 100% wokeness from a 1990s show and wouldn’t bemoan the lack of it if the show was any good, but it’s not. It stinks.

Yep. We wish for one person’s death, while you’re fine with thousands of people dying to save economy. We’re the true monsters here.

Our government is broke.

Are you fucking kidding me with this? Covid 1? I sincerely hope she’s just throwing shit against the wall to see what sticks, I was already feeling really down about what the future holds, I’m ready to start throwing stuff.

Oh, you mean like medical resources that are running super thin-to-none at this point from people going about their business doing things like playing golf as if there isn’t a pandemic ripping like wildfire through my Long Island community? Resources like that? Something important like not getting sick and spreading…

Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez came into Washington with more political capital than most freshman congresspeople, and she’s acquitted herself well. I think she’s too far left to win statewide in New York, and you couldn’t put her on the ballot in Ohio and expect her to carry it in a national election, but she fits her…

It does when taken in context with all of the other things that Emily leaves out....I honestly do not understand how someone is making a decision whether she is credible or not until this is verified. This is sloppy reporting.

I’m sorry, but Emily’s leaving out the part where Tara accused both high level folks at Warren and Harris’s campaign of shutting her down and ignoring her & the that her twitter account is full of crazy shit (the Russia thing was not an outlier) & more.

Unfortunately, it’s relevant to evaluating the credibility of allegations.

Idiots can be assaulted. And maybe she was. But it’s not unremarkable that by far the most serious accusation against the president’s general election opponent comes from a Putin zealot who took steps to hide evidence of that adoration when she chose to come forward with (at the time) less serious accusations.

You are young. You will get tired of hiding your true self for the sake of manipulating others and of hiding your light under a bushel. (The math thing, though, I totally get..I failed it all down the line myself and have lived 67 years very successfully without that knowledge, despite the dire predictions. )

There is…

Also: every member of Trump’s team of defense attorneys is risking disbarrment if they continue presenting to the Senate tribunal facts they now know to be untrue - and now they know, for example, claims they made on Saturday attempting to decouple the withheld aid from the political schemes; the quid from the quo, as…

Here is the problem-nobody doubts the fact that Trump withheld the aid and nobody doubts the fact that his reason was to get Ukraine to soil Biden’s reputation. The thing is, the elected Senate Republicans do not care. They don’t care if Trump is beholden to Putin. They don’t care if he has engaged in illegal,…

Yes, as described in the article, they have the “privilege” of being sexualized as minors by adult men, sexually harassed, and treated as second class citizens in their country.

No, it’s the failing of a company that touts its “representation,” and then “represents” a Korean woman in a costume that is a symbol for sexual harassment, misogyny, and the sexualization of children in the Korean culture.

You can’t believe it because you’re privileged enough not to have to deal with the actual issues that the people who are made to wear these sorts of uniforms in real life have to deal with, and you’re also not empathetic enough to understand the perspective of another fellow human being, and how such a thing might…

I’m disappointed that the first comment is already dismissive of the entire concept of thinking critically about topics like this. I found the article very informative and enlightening, and I think we should be having conversations like this. Writing it off as “just cosmetics” isn’t helping anything. Caring about…

Yes, many people were confused in the first couple of episodes, which was purposeful. The audience was supposed to be confused in the first couple episodes. The issue isn’t with the show, it’s with an audience that has gotten used to movies and TV shows that spoon feed the story to them such that they’ll quit a show…

If you aren’t paying enough attention, you can easily wonder what the hell is going on.