Uh because legally binding yourself to someone has a number of legal benefits?

Nope. Most do. The divorce rate has been dropping for years. But I think that’s for the reasons you’re citing; when you don’t force people to do something, and couples can make decisions based on what actually works for them instead of social requirements, that means you get fewer crappy marriages and more marriages…

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It is official: Kanye is too cool for Canada.

I love Kanye.

Also Missy Elliot joke.

[From Hark, a Vagrant!]

This choice is money.

it’s worth including kate beaton’s excellent comic on the life of ida b. wells

Clarence Thomas existed way before 2015, man.

This is why I am trying not to write off the whole state of Oklahoma right now (or other states that piss me off). There are too many good folks there that deserve SO much better.

The “followers” are absolutely delighted to have their black guy to use as evidence against their racist bullshit.

First off, kudos to the crack writers at 104.5 KRXO for thier “first president to visit a prison, some folks think maybe he should stay there” joke this morning. Just wow, such quality, great writing, wow, so edgy.

The epitome of class.

She can be heard thanking the guy who was recording her arrest at the end of the video. This was not a woman who was just going to accept this happening to her. Her audacity cost her her life.

FUND BETTER MORE ACCESSIBLE 24 HOUR PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION INSTEAD OF DUMB SEXIST CAMPAIGNS YOU IDIOTS

I move that henceforth, he be referred to as “bigger lego.”

I find it difficult to understand how the culture we live in can honor a person who is responsible for taking a life and injuring several others