I just did a debate at uni on this very issue- the ethics and efficacy of paying women to stop smoking in pregnancy.

Another former infantryman here - and I completely agree. Who knew we were such a progressive bunch! Seriously though, if advocating for the rights of a historically oppressed ethnic group to which you belong is a “partisan” political issue then we need to seriously reconsider how we define the word. I don’t see…

How generous of you to not have a problem when I have a glass once in awhile.

“Languorous crybaby” would’ve been more appropriate

I know that if all 125k disenfranchised primary voters had been able to vote it probably would have split at best 50/50. That said.

I really hope this guy actually did it, cause I can’t imagine that a homeless teenager will be getting the kind of resources he needs to adequately fight this if he’s not.

But it’s not just that. We could start at the beginning, and recall that Bill Clinton got elected by forcing the execution of a severely mentally handicapped man (mental age of approximately five) in order to prove to white people that he was not soft on either crime or black people. That alone turns my stomach, but…

Excellent question.

Yeah because Natural History Museums that do place Native American material culture next to animal skeletons and remains but don’t include European material culture are saying that Native Americans belong with these animals, potentially as an extinct animal species. It’s incredibly fucked up and you can see it at the…

We could have prevented 9/11 if we’d had a highly educated female population in Afghanistan, sure, but how on earth would that have happened without a military intervention?

Supporting rival groups almost always comes back to bite us in the ass. I don’t know why this is such a hard lesson for the US to learn, but training and arming guerrilla forces in random backwaters does not make them our allies.

I believe Malala Yusafsai was entirely correct when she told Obama that investing in education for girls would have been far more of an efficient method of combating terrorism than the drone program, or the support of rival fighter groups. Preventative or restorative investments in civil society and infrastructure are…

I also wanna say, it’s fairly brave of Anna to mention this.

I thought Kara Brown nailed it in the live blog when she said that the monologue seemed like jokes about white people for white people. Inviting that audience to chuckle about lynching?!? You’re going to make Chris Pine cry again!

The proposed regulation wasn’t just about condoms - it stipulated that all bodily fluids be treated as active biocontaminants on porn sets, which would mean among other things performers needing to wear rubber gloves and goggles if they were going to get any fluids on or near their face, and use of not only condoms…

Only bad thing about it is if you start in the middle of the road, you still have to compromise to get it past the Republitards. So with Hillary’s $12, it may end up being $10 and for Bernie it may not be 15 but you can bet it will at-least be $12. You can’t start your position at an already compromised mindset, you…

There have been people of color in all of those places. As hard as it may be to believe, there were actually people of color present in medieval Europe, Enlightenment Scotland and France, AND the Midwest in the 80s. The idea that it’s okay to depict those environments as entirely and exclusively white is offensive to…

Thank you for this comment, I agree 100% with what you are saying. I grew up in a city near Cologne and have been to the Domplatte many times as a teen on weekends, and there has always been a rampant problem with guys trying to grope or harass you at night, especially when taking the subway. A friend of mine was…

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