I’m in favor of sending a human to Mars during Trump’s first term as long as that human is Donald Trump himself.

If the right wing wants to replace all the terrible things they do to gay people with providing them with free cake, I think we can all agree that would be a win. They can even pray over the cake before delivering it if they really want to.

I’ve spent lots of time living around immigrants - when I was a kid, well over half my classmates were immigrants or the children of immigrants. Many of my closest friends today are immigrants. My community is full of immigrants. Though you seem to be some sort of exception, aside from immigrants themselves, the…

Apparently you think “regular person” means racist piece of shit; I’m a “regular person” too, whatever that means (that is, I’m not a professional political activist, or someone whose job is tied to engaging in political action). Yesterday was a Sunday, I could have spent it lounging around at home; instead I went to…

How’s that fair? Clinton would win way too easily - Trump doesn’t have enough knowledge in any of those areas to even seem competent when answering the softballs that they get in the current debate format.

No, what he said is that he makes a habit of sexually assaulting women. I agree that this is a true statement, but it’s a very different statement than simply saying that famous people have more sex.

We know for a fact that Jeremy Lane supports Kaepernick. At the very least, Michael Bennett probably does too. The fact that they both participated suggests that they at least did not understand this as a rebuke to Kaepernick. I totally agree that it was bland and disappointing after the buildup, but I don’t think the…

What are “all of these other protections?” Because a whole lot of the legal protections that criminal defendants have are extensions of their fifth amendment rights. Also, the fact that you are apparently opposed to due process, protections against double jeopardy, and compensation for people when their property is…

It seems like saying that someone shouldn’t have kids just because they’re robotic and bland is a bit of an assholish position to take. And yes, that’s what you’re saying, because any kids Russell Wilson has will be black (unless he goes out and adopts a non-black kid, I guess). I don’t think Wilson has a public…

Except the personal foul did still have a big effect. Instead of losing several yards and a down, which would have been the result of the play had the personal foul not occurred (thanks to the intentional grounding call), the Panthers simply got to redo the play. Those are serious consequences for Denver (they would…

This is not true. Starr didn’t pursue it because the statute of limitations had expired. (Also, show me another time on Jezebel when commenters have said someone wasn’t raped because prosecutors didn’t decide to pursue the case. We know damn well that rape victims are routinely not believed by law enforcement,…

Trump has been accused of rape. Bill Clinton raped her. Is it really any wonder she sees them differently?

Broaddrick has been driven to right wing conspiracy theories because right wingers are the only people willing to believe her. If you were raped and all sorts of people publicly dismissed you and called you a liar, but one set of people took you seriously and supported you, you might well end up developing a lot of…

Um, except she told her friends about it immediately after it happened (and note that the story had spread enough that she was in fact approached about it in 1997, so clearly she had told people about it prior to 1999). The fact that she didn’t think the authorities would believe her and so didn’t report it publicly…

I love shitty comedic shows about the devil, and so Lucifer fits the bill; I just wish they’d stop trying to pretend like they have serious theological points to make.

Personally, I’d rather have Warren as Treasury Secretary than Veep. A job with actual power that fits perfectly with her priorities.

I’ve been to Israel; as an outsider, the level of security and armed soldiers everywhere felt really creepy and police state-like. I get that Israelis get used to it. I don’t want that to be something I get used to.

I get why the author frames this as a white privilege thing, because it clearly is in this case (and in so many), but as someone who went to a high school that was nearly 50% Asian-American, I can assure you that young Chinese-Americans and Indian-Americans in particular are also quite frequently opposed to…

Again, this is misleading. First off, you’ve given a list of 35 cases of character combining. There are more than 2,000 character simplifications, so I’d say this marks a pretty small percentage, which is what I said (not that there were no examples). In many of these the form that was eliminated is extremely…

This is a really inaccurate description of simplified characters. To start with the basics, official character simplifation by the PRC government began in 1956, not 1969 (the only place 1969 is relevant is Singapore, another country that uses simplified characters officially).
To dig a bit deeper, simplification is…