No, it’s the social Darwinism that we don’t like.

I am pretty far left and I would vastly prefer Gary Johnson over Jill Stein; while I agree with Stein on many more issues, her judgment is so phenomenally bad that I would not trust her ability to govern.

I don’t go to political scientists for advice on acting, so I don’t think I’m going to go to actors for advice on politics. You know, even when I do agree with Hollywood types about politics I still find them usually ignorant still about any sort of nuance or complexity. Why do we care what people whose job is to…

Born-and-bred in NYC and I think Central Park still really is a great place, though there are some other parks I like even a little better (Forest Park in Queens is amazing, and Prospect Park in Brooklyn is better-designed than Central Park, though the Park Slope crowd is kind of obnoxious). And of course the Jamaica…

In an attempt to bring a measure of compassion and tolerance back to the UK, I recommend they replace the 10 Downing Street cat with a 10 Downing Street dog.

http://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgesh…

To all the people collapsed on the fainting couch over her daring to make a political statement:

“If we ended up with another Bush-Gore Supreme Court case, this would certainly give fodder for the folks to suggest she recuse herself.”

Supreme Court justices are not bound by the Code of Conduct for Federal Judges.

You’d think the boomers and millenials would get along better, they’re kind of similar.

The problem with someone like that is the lack of reflectivity means they will probably never understood exactly why they’re so terrible. That kind of self-centeredness has to be biological; they are almost certainly psychologically incapable of understanding on any meaningful level that other people have needs.

Esther is a man?

“Creative people, ALWAYS HAVE A WILL.”

“Many schools have appointed a specific officer to receive complaints and have determined that a “preponderance of evidence” is enough to establish that misconduct occurred, a less rigorous evidentiary standard than the “beyond a reasonable doubt” that applies in most criminal cases”

Lifelong government types don’t set direction for governmental agencies. That’s done by the political apppointees who are set at the top few layers of organization, above the lifelong professional staff.

The majority of those people are pretty ignorant of politics; I mean they literally don’t really understand how the political system works here, in a nuts-and-bolts kind of way. They start paying attention to one election cycle, immediately hold a lot of very strong opinions based on hunches, and then lecture…

“Racial Justice...how many people are jailed on federal charges? Her rhetoric is total bullshit. That is almost exclusively a state issue.”

“The show title implies that those young folk living it up at Gosman’s”

That’s not the most precise way of navigating; you also have to either know the sky at your latitude really well, or spend a lot of time observing the sun’s path, and you have to hope it’s not overcast, and even then it’s not nearly as accurate as a compass.

I don’t really know anything about her on a personal level so I will not opine. If you haven’t read it, Martha Nussbaum has a really cutting critique of her scholarship, which sort-of also extends to her values: