Democrats’ problem is not that they cling to logic like it means something. It’s that they have no leadership, and no comittment to progressive ideas that people actually want. No one should be abandoning facts and reason, just because a minority don’t respond to truth.

I was VERY put off by the attribution of direct quotes from the book to Stephen (a fictional man). It is one thing to write a role in an adaptation that is something of a stand-in for the showrunner (“taking liberties” with source material), but assigning credit not just for the adaptation, but for the source material…

Yeah, I finally saw this movie, and you are so right. The fact that she is portrayed as mostly a conventional girl sort of caught up as a victim of her poet friends’ radicalism (like Shelley wanting to have an open relationship, while she just wanted to be monogamous with him, and suffering because of it) which…

This really is, exactly like Dr. Ford says, like being in the path of an oncoming train. We’ve all known from the start that, no matter how bad a candidate he was, Kavanaugh was going to end up on the Supreme Court. All the little upsets, the sexual assault accusations, the perjury, the FBI investigation, the…

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…

If you transfuse yourself with too much young blood, do you run the risk of turning yourself back into a baby?

“In July, Deneumostier was also charged for sex with a minor, who had been reported missing, according to the Miami Herald.”

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?

Disregard. Kinja nonsense.

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…