I understand why people become prosecutors, and I understand that lawyers of all stripes and types may occasionally be in a position of advocating positions they find personally distasteful. But I really have to question the basic human decency of someone who is willing to prosecute someone, including retrying the…

“Humanitarian aid is not always a crime”

Of course you “get to object to them being used elsewhere.” Lornicz is doing it right now! Whether she has any legal recourse if Galdwell refuses is a different matter, but she can surely object to Gladwell’s decision to use her quotes in a manner she feels portrays her unfairly, or even that just opens wounds that…

How curious that a guy that hung out with Jeffrey Epstein would either ignore women’s voices or use them without their consent in his book.

Those books were chosen in different years, and I haven’t seen any indication that this woman was part of the committee in 2014. Multiple and diverse female perspectives are reflected among the authors chosen for this list, but that’s not the point because this is controversy is centered not on the committee and its…

Just Mercy was a smashing success on my campus a few years ago. I anticipated a lot of backlash given the redness of this particular state, but the students really got a lot out of reading it and using it in a variety of classroom contexts. I really do think that it broadened a lot of students’ thinking about our…

IDK, “Ready Player One” was her freshman year so maybe she was like “JFC this is like 2014 all over again!” when someone proposed another YA book. Why aren’t people with strong opinions on books supposed to join the committee? Who else would join? And how does this stop other people from reading the book?

I get that…

Maybe she’s telling on herself. Or maybe she was 20 and majoring in English and really excited to read authors she hadn’t read in junior high because one thing college is good for is trying new things. On that score, the book that was chosen the year the student was on the committee was about racism and restorative…

I don't get it either. I've never met one of those stereotypical, judgemental vegans who always point out that they're vegan. So they even exist? 

Lololol, this sub thread about Nicholas Sparks is making my day.

My opinion: I think a lot of people take other’s dietary choices as comments on their own dietary choices. E.g. “Since Moby has decided to be vegan, he must also think people who aren’t also vegan are assholes; I’m not an asshole, why is he judging me?” -Person I made up.

This is just another reason why the US needs nationalized, single payer, healthcare. Churches shouldn’t be running hostpitals unless those hospitals are regulated the same as any other hospital and have to offer all of the same services, regardless of religious beliefes, to all patients.  This is pure bullshit.

Nothing is going to lose Trump the evangelical vote. He could murder Mike Pence live on TV at the Southern Baptist convention and he would still get the evangelical vote. Because white American evangelical Christianity is Trumpism. 

More seriously, Mike Pence is never going to give up The Precious. So then the only way to do it would be at the national convention. And that would require delegate wrangling and wheeling and dealing. A president can’t simply “replace” his or her vice president at whim; they are both elected officials in their own…

The second the wheels leave the runway I’m standing in the aisle like a ski jumper

I do the exact opposite; I stand up as soon as the plane takes off

Martin Scorsese? Is that you?

I had my review at work recently, and my manager said you’re so organized and plan ahead. I was thinking about it later and thought, of course I plan ahead, I plan ahead so you people aren’t bothering me!

“Nor does this exactly harken a new era in Kentucky with Republicans winning several down ballot races by 20% and taking back the two offices that Democrats had held.”

This needs to be emphasized more. People on social media are hyping this a bit much, but it just means that the imcumbent realy, really, really, sucked…

I can’t stop imagining that Steve is actually trying to give “the talk” to his pubescent child in that gif.