Mary Cheh, a DC councilwoman, proposed posting mugshots online, even though they are only evidence of arrest, not conviction. One of these mugshot websites put her pic up so she could begin to grasp the consequences of just an arrest. It was against the company’s self-interest and I still don’t get why they did it,…

In a child custody case.

Yeah, nice hair (and eye brows) but what about her being arrested for violating a domestic protective order?

Posting images of arrests is really such a bullshit thing to do. Everyone arrested is supposed to be presumed innocent.

“Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late. I use the side door - that way General Kelly can’t see me. After that I sorta space out for an hour, I just stare at my desk, but it looks like I’m working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch too, I’d say in a given week I probably only do about…

So he works like 2 hours a day? Honestly, I’m okay with this, because I think the country is probably better off when he’s tweeting and not making decisions of real consequence.

I’ve read Jezebel for years but nothing has ever motivated me to actually post until today:

“But no one tells him to turn his Burzum CD” is the wittiest zinger I’ve ever seen in any Jez article and wish to congratulate Rebecca on using it in the most appropriate context possible!

(For those curious what Burzum is google…

Best description of him I’ve heard was on Bill Maher “the least liked kid at vampire school.”

I’ve always (like every California hippie) dreamed of a public dialogue between him and the Dalai Lama, but a friend of mine has informed me that this is unlikely to happen due to the harm that might befall Catholics in China. :(

But no one tells Stephen Miller to turn the volume down on his Burzum CD ...

Yes, I think it is cultural. My family is Catholic and everybody breastfeeds, and there’s lots of encouragement and it’s no big deal. When formula was first gaining major traction in the 50's, my grandparents were too poor to afford it so they missed the trend and continued to pass breastfeeding down the generations.…

Yes! I have a friend who used to live over there and she reported that although the women dress in burka’s and other forms of conservative, Muslim dress, they have no qualms about whipping out a boob from all that black fabric to feed their baby. She witnessed it several times, in several different types of public…

It should be impossible to fuck up the 2018 midterms, so I look forward to seeing how the hapless chucklefucks running my party manage to do it. Should be a fun diversion while the world burns.

It is, but in this case specifically there might also be a notion of “omg you’re in a really holy place omg act accordingly” and he’s trying to correct what “accordingly” is. (Apparently, and I agree, it’s proper to feed a child who is hungry even during Mass).

I was just about to say - I’m not in Dubai but there’s a decent ME population around these parts and I’m friends with a Muslim woman who is breastfeeding. If it’s gotta happen (and that kid will let EVERYONE know - and I’ve yet to see him persuaded to back off longer than 5 minutes), it happens, without so much as an…

Aww, your baby sounds sweet. Yeah, its kind of amazing how prudish the West is about breastfeeding,

A lot of babies won’t eat if they are covered up. My kid decided that if I tried to cover him, he would whip the cover off and then push whatever I was wearing as far out of the way as his arms could reach, exposing as much of me as possible. I ended up just not breastfeeding in public most of the time, but that was…

I totally get you but my thinking on this is that he wanted to clarify that women should feel comfortable actually breastfeeding, and not be subject to censure from others around them for doing so.....

it’s darkly gratifying watching conservative american catholics try to square their aggravation at a (relatively) more progressive Pope with their belief in infallibility

It makes me all cringy... like I want to hide my face in embarrassment for them right now.