At about 10:25 a small blonde lady starts yelling at the protesters: "We're the ones who gave all y'all the freedoms that you have!"

I was looking for "admit defeat." Why was this omitted from the list?

If anything, this graph understates the main issue because the Census Bureau only tabulates income in segments up to $200,000 per year. Any income beyond this level is all grouped into the ridiculously broad category of "$200,000 or more," which places my dentist, Jay-Z, and the Walton family all in the same category,…

Okay...so? It's an excuse to do something with dry ice. I can't judge, because I am always looking for tangential projects where I can use PVC pipe for something other than its intended use. Is it efficient? Hardly. Cost effective? Heck, no! Better? Probably not. But I don't care because...it's PVC pipe, which is…

"Sure, it's over-engineering a solution to a pretty simple problem..."

By its count, there have been more than 1,300 officer-involved shootings this year alone.

"I found it odd that none of the local news outlets revealed the name of the dealership."

That was very nicely put. Hat's off!

Part of this, I think may come from the fact that the entire "it's not a choice" was used as a central theme for a long time, and still is to a large degree. Pansexual doesn't fit neatly into that model because...well, if both appeal, why not just find a nice person of the opposite sex and be done with it? (Not my…

Yes, pretty much. It's evolved into a palatable market segment. Trans and bi are less safe and marketable and therefore get shorter shrift (and in most cases, no shrift at all).

To be perfectly honest, I think she wanted to do something that would seem avant-gard/artsy/provocative/begging-to-be-analyzed, and Madonna had already used the pointy-bras-on-the-male-dancers thing, so this was what they came up with.

I'd recommend Arnold J. Toynbee's A Study of History (the one-volume abridged version, if you're not in the mood to read all 12 volumes, which I wasn't). His overarching theory has to do with the idea that when societies are faced with hardships, they are given an opportunity to adapt to those hardships, and when they…

LittleBearNYC — Undoubtedly we're dealing with a better set of "problems" than we were in 1973 (or 1984, when I came out). At the same time, I get a little squeamish when activism reaches the stage where it ceases to be about forward movement and starts to be about management, because it feels like it ceases to be…

This. And I think giving space for people to own up to past ignorance is important. Remember that Kim Kardashian has her own audience, and it's probably not this one. It may look like "baby steps" from where we sit, but it may not be "baby steps" for an audience that follows Kim's every move and looks up to her as a…