This is absolutely correct. I’m a teacher (elementary), and I basically never assign homework. I get a bit of push-back from parents on that, but the majority are happy and relieved. Kids have been at school ALL DAY doing schoolwork, some go to after-school daycare, or do an assortment of activities and lessons, and…

Oh, boy, if we're going to bring TACTICS into this, holy hell does that change the conversation. Yeah, all the crazies live on one side, for sure.

You know, I once got into a discussion with someone online who argued that in the abortion debate, “there are extremists on both sides.” I retorted that just because there were extremists on both sides, that didn’t mean both sides were equally extreme. One side’s most radical extremists are for “make the choice that…

Yep. Let's be fair. Who among us HASN'T held down a struggling woman on a bed, groping her and trying to get her clothes off, clamping a hand over her mouth so she can't scream, while our best buddies watch? If this is somehow considered BAD behaviour, we're all in trouble!

Accepting that marijuana isn’t that big of a deal is a slippery slope. What’s next? Letting all those black folks serving mandatory minimums out of prison?

My kingdom for the privilege of, after getting fired for sexually assaulting 12 co-workers, continuing to hang around my workplace in an unpaid capacity, just ‘cause.

In a situation like this, at least one person has to be an asshole. It was an accident. If he didn’t offer to pay for your dry-cleaning, HE’S the asshole. If you demand that he do so and raise a stink about it, you’re BOTH assholes. If you make the conscious effort to genuinely let it go and move on with your life,…

Rabble rabble rabble! This sucks! Remember when we used to have sessions without women, and everything was great? Now women are having sessions without us, and that’s SEXIST! Rabble rabble rabble!

But don’t most people use their phones WHILE WAITING for their meal to arrive, rather than while eating? If I’m on my own, and have no one to talk to, sure, I’ll be reading quietly waiting for my meal. This won’t disrupt my enjoyment of the meal in the slightest when it arrives.

I love that idea! Rather than a big push of bland, dour period pieces right at awards season, you need to choose what has held up 5 years later! Stephen Thompson from NPR has a brilliant idea about acting categories as well: Rather than “Best Actor” and “Best Actress” (Gendered categories, which are meaningless), have…

The problem with “Best Picture” is that often, TERRIBLE films are nominated. Just because something has a prestigious appearance, or tackles a historically important person or event, or has an all-star cast, that doesn’t make it a good movie. Look at last year’s nominees:

Men are too emotional to be president.

Wow, a LOT of hate for Melania in this thread. I’m not fan, but I’m willing to at least CONSIDER the possibility that she (an immigrant) is being LITERALLY held captive by a wealthy and powerful man (now POTUS), a self-confessed sexual assailant and accused rapist by his former wife, with mob connections and an inner…

I hope everyone who has made threatening or judgmental remarks about this girl is subject to a “concerned community” carefully scrutinizing THEIR bathroom usage, and keeping a public log of it to be discussed to death by “concerned citizens” who speculate about things like, whether they were preying or peeping on kids…

I kinda love these. Finally, a foot-mounted art installation that forces you, the audience, to confront the grisly effects of the high-heeled shoe on the human foot! Take that, fashion industry! Yeezy the Super-Feminist is coming for you!

Someone on Twitter pointed out the obvious link to this article, about the insecurity and entitlement that allow men to make these sort of demands on women who are playing in a league an order of magnitude above their own. Patterns, they are everywhere.

You know, in a twisted way, it’s kind of nice of Trump to take all the worst lowlifes in America and put them squarely in the public eye where we can all clearly see what utter garbage they are. This whole administration is like an infomercial for financial system reform.

Yeah. Good thing it has no bearing on our secular legal system.

So, is the Catholic Church advocating holding public executions during mass, or is the CHURCH for some reason trying to tell the STATE how to do its job? Will they be weighing in on the biblical justifications for parking tickets, too, or do they just think they have the right to govern the lives (and deaths) of…

Explain to me again how the real enemy is unions?