“How do you define fair?” hits the thing with the other thing. If the point of the thing is to create a completely level playing field so everything is “fair”, will we address wildly disparate access to nutrition/coaching/facilities/etc?

Separately, T levels are not the only meaningful measure of whether an athlete…

You know that the Olympics already allows trans women to compete, right? And-this is gonna blow your mind-the requirements are that the trans woman in question has undsergone this wild medical treatment where they suppress testosterone production (usually to effectively zero, which is actually well below the T levels…

There are an enormous number of douchebags who inhabit the ranks of middle and upper management at the companies headquartered in the Boston-DC corridor, little Scaramucci clones, who will view Kushner and Ivanka as their own.

As a trans woman this is one of those things that drives me nuts about republicans. They always talk about gender like it’s some immutable, unchanging thing that has been the same since the dawn of time. Men look like this, women look like that, anything else is profane. Here’s the thing though: gender is completely a…

Thank you for watching this show so I don’t have to.
I love your recaps.

I can confirm that our goal is absolutely a full-blown matriarchy. First we gain the presidency, then we start oppressing the men.

We start passing laws on what elective medical procedures they can have to erode their bodily autonomy, pay them less so they’re more dependent on us, only test medication on women so it’s …

I mean, duh. trump is many things, but mainly, he’s a bullshit artist. And to the uninformed and ignorant, he is dangerously impressive. He’s been playing billionaire pretty much forever, and despite the fact that he’s never earned a single dollar of his own money he can put up a facsimile. He duped a bunch of…

I’m not even an American but every time I think about how miserable Trump must be feeling currently it makes me smile. 

This is a case study of how harmful “both sides” journalism can be. Voter ID laws first started bubbling up during the Bush administration, around 2003 and 2004. The framing of the surrounding controversy in the mainstream media was always some version of “Democrats say [X], while Republicans say [Y],” i.e. “Democrats…

The observer, Kristy Klamer, also complained that a Democratic challenger had asked her a reasonable question: “Why did you come here?”

Think of the country as a big colon. Waddles was the severe case of constipation that was backing us all up. The election was the big dose of magnesium citrate that loosened up that clot of compacted fecal matter so we could successfully pass it. And Biden is the soothing medicated pad dabbing at our sore-but-relieved…

Well, see, it adds up like this....Trump is a delusional lunatic.

As you mentioned, they refused to air it on MSNBC, so I switched to CNN and... wheeeeew boy...someone’s becoming (more) unhinged.

Ah, the rousing anthem of the Neckbeardian, sung lustily in so many damp basements!

When you were hunting mammoths with crude spears, I studied blades and cool looking katanas on the internet.

It is remarkable how sexist assumptions (from the prevailing worldview at the time) have impacted some of our records. Evidence of gender parity and homosexuality has been misinterpreted in both animal and human historical research for ages, and we’re only beginning to unpack it now.

I doubt she’s that clueless.

Please don’t take this the wrong way, but as an American, it makes me feel weirdly comforted that fucking nimrods like these are not solely the domain of your next door neighbor.

Let’s hope Collins is gone. We don’t have ranked choice here in Pennsylvania, but I always Vote Blue down the whole ballot.

Ranked choice in my home state. I had the pleasure of voting for all 5 of Susan Collins’ opponents, Democrat first, and leaving hers’ blank. Same for Waddles!