That was exactly my thought when I read this and thought that has to be wrong. I live in Oregon but am pretty sure that in most states there are no juries in things like family court or termination of parental rights. Texas is more misogynist than the average state so I’d be curious to see what the outcomes are like…

Ugh, I am so ashamed of my government right now because you’re completely right. There is no objective need for this agency other than to drum up more hate against latinx communities. They aren’t talking about irish au pairs or chinese grandmothers came on visas and never left, they’re talking about people who look…

Wow! No, not fucking funny.

Wonder what Dixie Longate would say?

The king of filth just turned 70! I can’t get away to Connecticut for this I’m afraid but can’t wait to see him emcee the Burger Boogaloo in Oakland this summer. He’s truly a national treasure.

Sorry to hear your situation. For my best friend it took years after he was able to marry his husband after Prop 8 was repealed. When he thought he was home free and just had to apply for his visa in Juarez and come right back they made him stay in Mexico for a year before he could reapply. Utterly heartless and…

I’m holding out my judgment of him. I predict he’ll show himself to be a true asshole by the time he’s 15. Really in that family is there any chance of him turning out a decent human being? I doubt it.

The mail order bride thing makes me infuriated because it’s easier for them to get a visa and green card in most cases than it is for an undocumented immigrant who has been in this country since they were children to get a green card after they marry a citizen.

I agree with you, just kind of a realist that if you want to lower costs and insure everyone you have to ask doctors, hospitals, medical device makers, pharmaceutical companies, insurers, etc. to make less money they’re accustomed to making (and many will simply no longer have a place), they are going to fight against…

You’re comparing apples and oranges. There’s a good reason no state has enacted a single payer system. Actually there are a million reasons and unintended consequences it would create. The Colorado Care initiative failed miserably not because people don’t want a single payer system but when you get to the nuts and…

Single-payer is a pipe dream and while it’s a lovely idea and would be the best solution I don’t want politicians to lie to me and act like it’s a realistic policy goal. There are so many hands in the pie of our current system with lots of people making lots of money who don’t want that to change. You can expand…

34 year old in Portland here and I have to agree. Me and most of my social circle are happily childless but it’s never really a topic. I simply don’t see people bothering anyone about why they’re not having kids.

Other airlines don’t pull people off planes like that and they mostly do a better job of running on time than United.

I had no idea they had a location in Denver. I remember the good old days when people who actually lived in Portland went there before they expanded into the old Berbati’s space. They had secret shows where one time Sleater Kinney played in the little nook on top of the restrooms. They also used to have a contest to…

I love love love Kirsten Dunst. I can’t speak to the veracity of this video which is purportedly her doing a mock interview with her psycho stage parents, but if it is real then I adore her for calling Tom Cruise creepy ;-)

Fascinating. I had no idea she was a New Orleans queen and I grew up down there.

I have never listened to him but recently his face has been popping up all over the internet enough for me to gather that’s he’s a famous pop singer. All I can say is that if he were a woman looking like that I doubt he would be a famous pop singer.

Fuck no! We watch him (and all of Trump’s adult children) like a hawk because it’s obvious they are shady as fuck. I just think arguing about this statute applying is never going to go anywhere because unfortunately and ironically Hillary Clinton set a precedent that is extremely unhelpful. The other side would call…

That is still good law but the White House is not an agency. These questions came up when Hillary Clinton was a healthcare adviser in the early ‘90s and it was determined it doesn’t apply. She’ll be breaking other laws on the regular I’m sure, but not this one.

Right, best policy is to ignore but if they spout something you know is utter bullshit you want to humiliate that person with actual (not alternative) facts.