Who has time to research every single quote a public figure gives? We should be able to trust reporters and media companies not to lie or twist people’s words to that extent. That we can’t is a real shame.

I assume you’re talking about how the ACA got passed. In July 2009, the House released their version of the ACA bill, had months of committee markups, and then passed it in November 2009. Then the Senate held months of public committee hearings, the CBO score came out, and the bill was debated on the Senate floor for…

“Are you serious with coal only having 78,000 jobs”

Yup, she’s been here all along. Last year one of her burns was the most retweeted tweet of the election cycle http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/304770-the-most-retweeted-tweet-of-the-campaign-clinton-telling

“...eh, you can make an argument about “Fanboy” being usable as a gender-neutral group term, since there is no gender-neutral term with that same meaning.”

Hah! It’s also so funny to me that they treat Felicity Smoak as someone who never works out, because the actress is clearly ripped.

Gender is a social construct. (Simplest way of seeing this is that different societies and the same society at different points of time have different stereotypes or ideas of what each gender is capable of.) Sex is biological reality. The article is talking about “unexpected differences between the sexes.” Hope that…

“This idea that somehow men are keeping women out of STEM has always bothered me because I have never seen any sort of bias in college classes in fact they seemed more welcome.”

Voting for something when you don’t even know what it is idiotic. It’s even stupider and less excusable when we remember that reading, understanding, and making laws is his ONLY JOB. He gets paid $174,000 a year to do it, and apparently that’s just too dang hard for him.

Two things: Clinton spent a year and a half campaigning. Taking a few months off seems reasonable to me.

Health care spending is very high in the US, thanks to low investment in social services and preventive care (which would prevent health conditions from arising/progressing/worsening), higher prices for the same services, drugs&devices, and larger amounts of a few expensive tests (eg, MRIs). http://www.commonwealthfund…

“That forced them to remain at less than 50 full time employees. So some people lost full time employment.” I’m sure some people did, but full time jobs have trended upward since 2011 (the ACA was signed in 2010) http://www.npr.org/2017/01/07/508600239/what-kind-of-jobs-president-has-obama-been-in-8-charts and two…

No Jadzia Dax=very little interest from me. I love a lot of the characters and I loved DS9, but I don’t want more of it. The TNG movies missed or outright tainted many things I loved about TNG the show; I wouldn’t want that to happen to DS9.

I enjoyed this but did wish they’d pulled back on Constantine’s magic use a little. Part of what made Hellblazer so innovative and memorable (at least to me) was that unlike pretty much everyone else with their own comic, he had very little actual magic, and most of it was very dark indeed.

Seems like pretty much the only people showing up are those who’re obligated to be there and protesters: https://itsgoingdown.org/disruptj20-washington-dc/

Right on the “about” section of the linked facebook page: “In the spirit of democracy and honoring the champions of human rights, dignity, and justice who have come before us, we join in diversity to show our presence in numbers too great to ignore. The Women’s March on Washington will send a bold message to our new…

Obviously he’s an unreliable narrator (just like hundreds of other unreliable narrators in books written long before him). But the idea that grown-up Kvothe details his sex-scapades in THAT much detail is pretty laughable, and I don’t think it came across the way Rothfuss intended. I think we really were supposed to…

I’m an epidemiologist myself. I’ve worked with some of the same datasets as the CDC reports on (NHANES etc) and come to the same numbers as they did. I’ve worked with CDC employees and always found them to be conscientious and transparent in their methods.

Except she also said this shit repeatedly during speeches. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clinton-plans-new-effort-to-win-over-white-working-class-men/2016/10/07/6ffb7e1a-8ca0-11e6-875e-2c1bfe943b66_story.htmlSo like, at a certain point, it’s up to the media to report on this (when apparently they spent…

I mean, it’s very possible to help these kinda dying/under resourced towns. The article even points out some possibilities how—putting money into education, valuing getting degrees or skills, or moving. The Democrats have done things like put job retraining centers into these areas or provide tax incentives to lure…