For people not as heavily invested in the Star Wars universe, this is Salacious Crumb:

This might be confirmation bias, but I’ve found that the people who are most hypocritical of others’ appearances (particularly women) tend to be the ones who benefit most from taking a look in the mirror.

I understand that people have right to be angry and frustrated by antivaxxers, but are they evil or just ignorant?

He was stripped of his license in 2010 by the United Kingdom’s General Medical Council — but for ethical violations and failure to disclose potentially competing financial interests.

He is quoted as saying the following back in 2015:

The study was later identified as fraudulent and was retracted by the medical journal that published it, and his medical license was revoked.

About ten years or so, my partner and I were living from paycheck to paycheck. I wasn’t working other than the occasional freelance gig, and his income wasn’t enough to pay all of the bills. We often had to borrow money in order to make mends meet.

I hadn’t seen it, but my GoogleFu is strong! I’ll admit, I’m pretty sure that my jaw dropped at some point during that nonsense.

THIS IS REAL AND IT IS AMAZING AND THAT LITTLE CHILD IS SO ADORABLE AND WHAT IS THIS

At The Citadel, five male freshmen alleged that Munoz used his positions as an upperclassman, class president and head of the campus Republican Society to grope them. In one incident, a student reported waking up with Munoz on top of him, kissing him and grabbing his genitals. In another, on a trip to the…

♫ A super callous fragile racist sexist Nazi POTUS.
Even now the sound of it is simply quite atrocious.
Maybe if you drink enough it won’t seem all that hopeless.
Our super callous fragile racist sexist Nazi POTUS. ♫ 

IF IT WOULD HELP YOU TO FEEL BETTER, THAN ABSOLUTELY. PLEASE DO SO.

Yes and no. I mentioned this earlier in another comment, but I think that Americans have tied morality to wealth. As a result, a successful company may be deemed moral by virtue of its success, and a moral company is expected to be successful.

I also wonder if conservatives realize that this religious freedom they so crave will make it easier for the Muslims they hate to create enclaves of Sharia law?

The vast majority? They want to curtail the “LGTB+ agenda.” An agenda that somehow is defined solely as existing and wanting equal rights but somehow infringes on the rights of Good Christian Folk™. Essentially, bigots who loathe same-gender relationships, trans and nonbinary people, gender non-conformance, sexual…

I know people — both back on the East Coast from where I came and even here in the liberal bastion known as western Washington — who are gleefully waiting for this opportunity. I’m still flummoxed that these laws are being passed.

I want to say that I really enjoy your writing. I think that a lot of it is because you’ve included links throughout your post, and I really appreciate how easily details have been interspersed and how accessible additional information is as a result of the links. Thank you!

Falmingo3 pointed out that the law is so broad that they were compelled to convict.

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