I have a friend named Balthasar, and people really call him Balthasar, and no one smiles.

This might be the most hipster paragraph ever:

Death of the mother and doctor: a loving alternative to abortion.

He spent $100K of state money to destroy all records before he left the office. But you know, Hillary’s deleted emails wasn’t a big deal or anything.

Nope. Still going to criticize him. Romney might have been a decent, middle-of-the-road politician when he was governor of Massachusetts, but he had no problems swinging to the fringe right in 2012. I could easily see him doing the same thing as SoS. He’ll be Drumpf’s diplomat to the world, so he can’t speak out of…

Ideological purity tests aimed at our own side were a problem. Refusing to accept egregious policies because they could be more egregious isn’t unreasonable; it’s how we survive the next 4 years.

Racism in the states is out in the open and a regular topic of discussion. And, therefore, it gets ugly. So it might seem like there’s “more racism” here. But the casual racism that is allowed to go unchecked (or that’s even chuckled at) in other countries is astounding.

I was living in Chile when Bush was reelected. This was also the time period when the French were debating banning hijabs in places like schools. I lived with a few French students. The crap they gave me (even though I did not vote for Bush) was insane. When I pointed out that their country was also far from perfect,…

Of course they did. Wilders is an unabashed racist and wannabe fascist, but for some Godsforsaken reason half the world is pandering to his ilk.

This is awful. If a woman wants to cover her face for any reason she should be allowed to do so. It’s her face!

...fed up with politically correct politicians...

It will never cease to amaze me how important it is to right wingers to “fight back” against the practice of mandating what women are allowed to wear in public — by mandating what women are allowed to wear in public.

I’d say there are two objectives: first to make choosing abortion prohibitively expensive and second to breach doctor-patient confidentiality since a record of every abortion will automatically be created for the State on top of the private one the doctor has and it will be attributed to the woman.

If no birth or death certificates are required why should this sort of medical waste be treated any differently than an amputated limb or organ?

Medical facilities will be responsible for the costs of burial or cremation, which are often as costly as several thousand dollars.

The “fool for a client” thing only really applies when you assume the defendant’s goal is to be acquitted or to get an advantageous plea deal. Roof isn’t going to see the light of day ever again without handcuffs and he knows that; he just wants a soapbox before he gets warehoused in a concrete box for the rest of his…

Al Gore also wasn’t on record demanding his opponent accept the results of the election. I think that shitshow (understandable as it was at the time) is why Hillary can’t be anywhere near the recount/audit. She wouldn’t just look like a sore loser, but a hypocrite as well.

Hillary is under a lot of pressure from the White House to let it go and allow the peaceful transition of power. Because Donald Trump made such a stink about not accepting the results if he didn’t win, and Democrats attacked him for it, that now that there may be real issues, Democrats have to tread lightly because…

Yeah, I don’t see any real evidence, either. But my personal take: I don’t think there’s any harm in doing a recount (provided it’s paid for, and done by Dec. 19th). I don’t think it’ll do any good, frankly. I don’t doubt that maybe there are a few thousand votes off either way, but not enough to flip a state, much…

When other inmates need to be protected for their own safety, they are thrown in solitary.