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.

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

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.

Sure, I get that. But the main problem is you can’t answer the question “what do we call these weapons?” We need a term. And when there isn’t a good existing term to use to refer to a thing or a class of things, people will grab at what ever language makes sense. Calling an AR -15 a semi-automatic assault rifle makes…

I don’t think you understood my comment. I understand the problems with (and limitations of) both the term “assault rifle” which is too narrow and “assault weapon” which is too vague. But then what is the term for the sorts of guns we are talking about? And if there isn’t one, why is expanding the definition of…

If assault rifle is not accurate, what is? The AR-15 is a rifle. It is also an assault weapon. Calling it an assault rifle makes sense, even if there is also another category of things called assault rifles, which are fully automatic and banned. To me, using fully and semi automatic to distinguish the AR-15 from other…