I checked the context beforehand, in the event that it had been a joke of some kind. It was not. It also included you mocking people who were proud of minority heritage and claiming that being called out for white privilege was shaming.

The really sad part is that there alot of merit in breaking up the 9th circuit, if only because it is comically huge. Just under 1/5 of all Americans live in the 9th Circuit. It is so big that it cannot hold a proper en banc hearing with all judges present. This is an issue that has been discussed in legal circles…

I think you misunderstand, Mr. “White, Privileged, and PROUD!” (actual quote from his posting history) doesn’t think murder is the worst crime. He thinks the murder of white people by non-white people is the worst crime.

My Dad was a disc jockey when I was born. He had transitioned to working overnight and/or early mornings so that when my Mom’s maternity leave ended he could make sure I always had a parent with me without either of them having to fuck over their careers.

I fuckin’ loved my Willy Water Bug! I would beg my parents to put him out in the lawn so I could run around and play with him (and possibly talk to him... I was a weird kid). Of course, we lived on the Oregon coast where we almost never had “go and play in the sprinkler” weather, but whenever we did, I would get…

I was one of those teenage boys in the late ‘90s/early ‘00s, at a low point in the great grunge hangover. It was a particularly ridiculous time to be a rock chauvinist. I was somehow able to convince myself that Limp Bizkit and Creed were “obviously” superior to Destiny’s Child and N*Sync and took pride in being a fan…

Another good example is the Spokane Indians, who were contemplating changing their name and talked to the actual Spokane tribe, who instead suggested a partnership and consultation on the team’s iconography.

They even have a version of the logo and an alternative jersey in Salish.

On behalf the rest of us who have an April 8th birthday, I’m kicking Jeremy Guthrie out of the club.

For him, that particular word was just the word you used when you didn’t know to say Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, or other more specific group. He never used it as a slur, and it was certainly better than what the people in the Irish neighborhood he grew up in were calling Asian people... so it couldn’t be racist,…

For him, that particular word was just the word you used when you didn’t know to say Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, or other more specific group. He never used it as a slur, and it was certainly better than what the people in the Irish neighborhood he grew up in were calling Asian people... so it couldn’t be racist,…

Wrinkle in Time was my Mom’s favorite books as a kid. As a girl with glasses who was really into math and science in the 1960s, Meg was a revelation, a character my Mom could actually looking and acting like her. For 30 years in classroom teaching, she made a point of reading Wrinkle In Time out loud to her…

My British German (rest of fun name) touched on it a bit, but an extension of his 2nd point is that U.S. states are more than just administrative sub-divisions, they are (conceptually) co-sovereigns and equals to the Federal Government. Under the supremacy clause, states must submit to Federal authority *in those…

On the one hand, I agree with most everything HamNo says here about how dickish it would be to abandon exploited people in the rest of the United States.

On the other hand, the pull of secession has always been there for me, even when the U.S was run by a government I mostly liked. For me, it is about more than just…

And I, despite trying not to be, am still part of the problem. I didn’t say anything at that summer job, after all. And whenever I meet a black person, I my inner monologue turns into “Don’t be racist! Don’t be racist! Don’t be racist!” at which point, I’m sure I probably do or say something unintentionally.

But, as…

I grew up in one of the few parts of rural Oregon that could be considered a “liberal enclave” (i.e. Only rural county without a college in it that Democrats regularly win and had 3% of all people in the county turn up for the post-inauguration march).

And yet... racist as fuck-all. I remember having a summer job at a…

Went to a midnight showing of Episode 3. Immediately after the whole “Beautiful because I’m in love/ so you’re saying love as blinded you” dialogue shitshow, my best friend shouted “shut the fuck up!” to clapping and cheering from the crowd.

Its the proudest I’ve ever been of him.

There are good, nuanced arguments to be made about how our society conflates pedophilia (a mental illness) with child sexual abuse (a crime) and how that conflation damages the ability to prevent sexual abuses by discouraging pedophiles from seeking help before they act on their urges.

There are good arguments to be…

As to your other points.

1) It is not many people so far, but it can and will (if allowed to continue) affect many more. Additionally, a thing does not have to affect many people to be unjust or illegal. This is why there is a lawsuit to determine if the action is legal.

2) What Obama did was make it so that we treat…

The federal judge does not have more power, nor is he issuing visas.

Because there is a lawsuit in regards to the legality of the executive order, the judge has placed a stay on the execution of that order until such a time as its legality can be determined.

This is pretty much SOP for courts at all levels. For…

My Mom , who grew up in Indiana in the 60s, tells me that most of the older parents in her area did that. So, apparently, did my paternal great-grandparents from Oklahoma/Eastern Washington. So maybe it some sort of old-fashioned countrified thing.

Pence seems like he’s too young to have come by it naturally and he…