Hey, astrology has been great for me. It’s as accurate as reading entrails, but not nearly as messy. 

Here’s what it means for your sign this week... nothing. The doctor delivering you has more gravitational influence on you than the nearest planet or star, not counting Earth and Sol that is. :)

The draft shouldn't exist, for men or women, but so long as it does it shouldn't be applicable to some and not others on the basis of sex.

I agree. I think the reason the ACLU is so despised among certain circles is that they attempt to stand for the law as it’s written, even when it’s unappealing. The option then becomes, change the law or enforce it equally.

The point of the lawsuit isn’t really to draft women; it’s to get rid of mandatory Selective Service registration altogether on the grounds that it’s discriminatory.

Either way, the ACLU taking up the military draft as an issue concerning gender discrimination seems to me to be a pitfall of liberal definitions of gender equality, which rely on the idea that women must seek to do everything that men do.

Exactly! Denying people abortion is denying them essential healthcare. People have completely lost the plot if they’re criticizing Biden administration officials for defining abortion as healthcare and arguing for its continued protection. 

Except there are plenty of groups that support abortion rights because abortion is healthcare. It’s an important and true talking point. So framing the right to abortion as the right to reproductive healthcare isn’t cowardly avoiding the issue; it’s critically arguing that abortion is essentially healthcare.

I am attempting to find a way to speak about why the Biden team is doing the right thing while also stressing that I am a pro-choice progressive feminist. This blog post is missing historical context over why the administration is framing their comments this way, though I understand that the intention of “words…

She speaks for the Administration, not herself. And saying abortion instead of pro choice gives the Republicans this talking point:

The counter-point to this is a Republican fundraising ad that’s just a supercut of every administration member saying the word “abortion”. If you’re explaining, you’re losing. Why give ammo to the right when you can instead make the clear, true, and important point that attacks on abortion rights are attacks on…

I read this elsewhere:

My god that was wonderful.

99 year olds never just die from complications following respiratory illnesses!

Also, while Mel Brooks stuff is definitely of its time, the joke was always on the people using the slur. 

Not how it works mate. The burden of proof is on whomever makes the claim. The null hypothesis is the default.
If I say I can read minds, the assumption is that I can’t - until I prove it.

They also have this cool Deputy Editor, Barry Petchesky.

Just checked it out - they have some really good writers like Drew Magary, Albert Burneko, and Ray Ratto! Wonder how they got those guys. 

Yeah someone ought to randomly fire all the staff at that other blog and replace them with the staff of Defector. And also turn the comments back on at that other blog.

Certainly better than some other blog you can’t even comment on.