Don’t get fired! (I mean that, no sarcasm.)

can be willing to kick the can of progress down the road in light of contemporary suffering is to be unaware of how bad and pervasive that suffering is

We are at cross points here. I think you are someone who cares deeply about social justice but I worry your vision of the future is skewed-that you underestimate the potential damage of a Trump presidency and overestimate the potential damage of a Clinton one. You feel the same way about me, in the reverse (although…

I’m not sure you are reading/getting what I’m saying. I wasn’t responding to the sexism argument I was responding to your original comment, which called out Samantha Bee for “punching down” and giving you my argument as to why I thought she was taking on a valid target.

Sorry, I didn’t mean to imply that you were a middle class white person - I realized that it came across that way after I posted, and it wasn’t my intention.

I’m no Hillary fan. I voted for Bernie. I support almost all of his policies.

You are making judgements without good information. While this is a field of ongoing research, studies show that 10-20% of morbidly obese people suffered childhood sexual abuse.

Just watched Rainn lap the field in the qualifiers. She is an amazing runner!

Obesity is NOT a simply a lifestyle choice, any more than being an alcoholic is. There are environmental and genetic factors at play. Additionally, there is some research that shows a link between childhood trauma and obesity. Also, people can have a healthy lifestyle (one that includes exercise and does not include…

Vaccines are not responsible for autism, so vaccinating the would have no effect on whether they developed autism or not.

I can see that. If she also has serious mental illness does that absolve her of some responsibility, though?

This is an interesting interpretation; one of the issues in this case, for me at least, is her mental health and whether the penal system is the place to deal with that.

I imagine that she knew it was socially unacceptable but did it anyway- maybe because it was?

It seems like cocoethylene doesn’t as easily pass into breast milk as other cocaine metabolites do. But if you combine alcohol and cocaine it is probably best to wait as long as 72 hrs to breast feed.

I'm checking this out

Breast milk does not have the same qualities as blood with regards to cocaine because cocaine can (it doesn’t always) concentrate in breast milk -you can have much more cocaine in your breast milk than in your blood and it takes much longer to get rid of it.

At least 36 hours.

Yes and no.

What sucks if if you google Jesse Williams right now Justin Timberlake’s tweet is what comes up first. Not JW’s speech.

But not fine calling an Ar-15 an assault rifle? I don’t mean to belabor the point, but in this whole conversation, you haven’t been able to offer a term which covers weapons like this. I think calling them assault rifles works.