It’s the equivalent of saying, “I have business meeting in Seattle, so I found myself a nice hotel in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.” One isn’t exactly convenient to the other.

Unlike the way Trump and Pence shove their own ideas—if you can call them that—on us, at least the good people of Iceland won’t force the shark on you.

I studied Icelandic in college and now I’m seriously thinking of emigrating. My family’s only been in the U.S. for a generation anyway, and I’m not sure how much more of this Trumpian shitshow my Nordic roots and I can tolerate.

Yet our “president’s” first response is “Hard to believe.”

That would him to have at least a basic awareness of classic literature. Or, for that matter, Disney movies.

Don’t feel bad. I had exactly the same reaction. Heinous crimes are those that cause harm that can’t be remedied, and I thought your list summed those up quite well.

I agree, but I do still enjoy Anderson Cooper’s spontaneous eye-rolls whenever a Trump minion says something particularly stupid

So, the way things work now is, if a person gets in trouble with the law, he or she can just have a friend write a letter, no backup evidence required, and everything will be fine? What a nifty new system of justice!

My thoughts exactly. If the report is released and it says what they claim it says, fine. I’ve always been more disgusted by his anti-immigrant rhetoric, blatant racism and cringe-worthy foreign policy. Claiming victory, however, when you refuse to let anyone see the report and the only source for what it contains is…

I have cousins in Sweden and Norway and friends in Iceland and Finland. All of them speak and read English perfectly, better than many people in the U.S, mostly because they started learning as soon as they started school and all the way through receiving their free college educations. In general, they like our music…

Wow. That was a really negative take. Is it now the the point at which we start bashing the Democratic candidates because they can’t walk on water or heal the lepers? It’s early days, and I haven’t decided who I’m going to support yet, but at least Beto seems to have a heart, cares about education, and isn’t…

My favorite will always be Dismal Hollow, West Virginia.

Best wishes is for a wedding or the birth of a child. Warmest sympathies is for when your friend’s 103-year-old grandmother passes away. Neither are appropriate for a murderous rampage. Trump is incapable of feeling or expressing normal human emotions.

Just as a point of reference, that ophidian racist wretch is a year younger than Prince Harry and Lebron James, and two years younger than Chris Hemsworth, Donald Glover and Henry Cavill.

Sadly, even when Trump is gone, the rest of the world will still be aware that the “enlightened” U.S. voters are capable of electing the least intelligent, least qualified and most despicable candidate into office at any given time, and that they can trust us and our commitments only as far as our next bad president.…

She’s also wrong about baby boomers not being vaccinated against measles. The chicken pox vaccine didn’t become available until later, and chicken pox went through the school like wildfire when I was in first grade, but I was definitely vaccinated against all the other childhood illnesses. Back in the 60s, we actually…

My wife and I married in the Presbyterian church. The Episcopal and Congregationalist churches in the little town where I live both have gay clergy. A good friend of mine (a married gay man) is the music minister at the Lutheran church he attends with his husband. Many Methodist churches are also welcoming to the…

He also would have been welcomed, as a divorced man, at a Presbyterian or Episcopalian Church, without all the nasty hate and conversion therapy. If a person truly accepts all kinds of people, there a plenty of churches that uphold that belief, and emphasize a personal relationship with God and caring for ones…

Maybe because the Catholic Church doesn’t send women to a special “therapy” to force them to not be women, or because Catholic girls don’t kill themselves because they can’t be Catholic boys.

I worked for a couple years at a major medical center in Seattle. Much of my job was walking families through the paperwork and scheduling for this type of abortion. It was, without a doubt, the most heartbreaking job I’ve ever had, because every single family desperately wanted the child and would have done anything…