My Dad and I had wanted to go to the march in Newport, OR (closet one to where we live), but he wasn’t feeling well (he has meniere’s disease) and I needed to help him around. However, I was pleased to see that ~1500 people had made it.

To give you context, the county only has ~47,000 people, so that means 3% of the…

If anything, the Bible is better used to support the argument that a fetus is not a person. God’s own laws treat a fetus as different from a person.

Exodus 21:22 “If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the…

When I was younger, I was trained in clowning (I was certified as a “Junior Master Clown” though I’m 99% sure is a thing the program I was in just made up) and briefly though about attending a circus college.

I don’t know if it matters, but when I first read blurbs about Harambe, before reading further and/or seeing any pictures, the mental image I had in my head was of a little blonde white kid named something like “Hunter” whose Mom was trying to take a picture with her phone and while Dad simply assumes that Mom will…

I am proud to say I have scratched the head of and had my fingers licked by Gary. I’m moderately cynophobic and he still managed to win me over. It should not have surprised me that one of the world’s coolest dogs belongs to one of the world’s coolest humans.

I truly hope she gets better. The world needs Carrie…

Mercy. Mercy.

Unless you live in Oregon*, then you’re kinda hosed if you don’t live near an Indian reservation with a gas station (my person savior during Christmas).

*Possibly also New Jersey, but I don’t remember.

Let the man, and his balls, have their freedom. Don’t be a Scrotum Nazi.

And for what its worth is a certain person whose name may or may not rhyme with Grody were in this thread, I’d want to ask if he would be ok with it if Mixon were a white man hitting a white woman or if he had hit another black man.

We agree that Mixon is a piece of shit.

Yes, of course, but that means “don’t hit women” ought to be merely a subset of “don’t hit people weaker or smaller than yourself” or “don’t hit people” for the majority of men. I wholeheartedly endorse that position.

I think the thing both sides of that argument need to do is figure out what their specific hang-up is. We can do that by changing the equation a bit by looking at fact patterns with a different racial/sexual make-up.

Watching it live, I wasn’t 100% sure that it was the original play.

I would.

There are a couple of examples of men getting this treatment here, but it still seems to be overwhelmingly women and when it is men, it rarely seems to rise to the same level of horrible.

Then again, this is also the group of people who make it legal to shoot somebody if you are afraid of them... so maybe their definition of aggression is different than the rest of the English-speaking world.

I have never understood how it could be the War of Northern Aggression when there is no doubt that they shot first....

I mean, I don’t credit this crowd with an over-abundance of brain-power, but this is the the thing they fanboy out all-over. Calling it the War of Northern Aggression should be like saying Luke…

I’m feel compelled to be a truther on the “4th foreign player thing.”

That sounds about right.

The honest part of my brain knows that when my Alma Mater won the D3 national title my Junior year, we pretty much owed it to getting a D1 transfer QB (who proceeded to break a large number of D3 records)... and Mount Union losing an early playoff game.

The rest of my brain then screams at the…

I know what you mean, when I worked at a bookstore, I had an ongoing passive-aggressive war with an assistant manager. For her, any book that featured a non-white person prominently on the cover or seemed to be about LGBTQ people all went to the “Sociology” section, which had “Gay Interest” and “Minority Interest”…