Meanwhile... “the widely cited statistic that one in three women ages 35 to 39 will not be pregnant after a year of trying, for instance, is based on an article published in 2004 in the journal Human Reproduction. Rarely mentioned is the source of the data: French birth records from 1670 to 1830. The chance of…

I remember one of the young accountants at my office razzing me about that women-over-35 statistic and how older women are less picky. He was disconcerted when I laughed. In my experience, the older you get while single, the harder it is for a guy to get your attention. I liked my life. To turn my life upside down to…

Lol when will men realize that I don’t want to be cherished or taken care of? I just want fucking control of my own uterus, for sexual assault victims to be believed, and for my wages to not be lower because I have a vagina.

I’m against all exceptions to abortion bans.

My grandmother was a Navy WAVE during WWII. She spent every Memorial Day putting flags on the gravestones of other WAVES in the area because other veteran organizations sometimes “forgot.”

Excellent points all! And yes, slavery in the U.S. was nowhere near coming to an end. After the cotton gin was invented it wasn’t going to stop unless people stopped buying the cotton. It is a long quote, but I think it is always worth while to revisit Sherman’s statements at the onset of the Civil War:

Something rarely considered which I wish would be at the front of more people’s minds is that many of these people were enslaving their own kin. Their children, their brothers, sisters, their child’s grandparent. So sick, so sad, I wish we spent more time focusing on slave narratives, their stories, their…

I’ve read a few accounts about Jefferson/Sally Hemmings. Fascinatingly heartbreaking. Anyway...one story has it that she got pregnant by him while in France...and came back only because he promised to free the children upon adulthood.

I hate that ‘argument,’ because the United States continued to have slavery long after almost all rest of the rest of the civilized world became repulsed by it. That was a reasonable argument in Ancient Greece, 1600s America? Not so much. Most countries also didn't have to literally fight a war to get people to…

What a saint, granting slaves their freedom after he has literally no possibly earthly use for them.

BD Wong is perfection in Mr. Robot and in Gotham.

I’ve been a huge BD Wong fan forever. I think I was the only fan of “All American Girl” other than Wong and Cho’s families. Yu’s right, it shouldn’t be considered crazy. On a similar note—have you ever realized how many ethnicitys Lou Diamond Phillips has played? That is some amazing bullshit.

“But” That little word that means I don’t believe ANYTHING I said before it.

Isn’t kinda disrespectful for a judge to address lawyers by their first names rather than Counselor? This is clearly not a friendly working relationship, so seems like a breach of ettiquette on his part. True, or nah?

And when the judge won’t let you get past “Your Honor, if....”???

I am 92% positive these are the same person.

As an attorney, the method for bench bullies I was always taught was to say, “You’re Honor, if you’re going to hold me in contempt, I demand that the charges against me be particularized on the record as proscribed in the Judicial Canon, that a hearing be set on notice of no fewer than thirty days as due process…

That weird duality gets applied to lots more than Iran.

What is with the GOP/conservative obsession with Iran? They seem to have this weird duality where Iranians are both the biggest threat to America ever BUT ALSO the weakest people alive who couldn’t possibly compete against American power.

What jinni learned, today: