It makes me angry to the bone for somebody to be given the responsibility of leader of a party with a noble history and to betray every value it should stand for - not even for something he believes in himself, but for a false and cynical vision of his own electorate.

or she could explain to her children the importance of honesty and why it’s bad to lie to people about the results of medical tests

Like this:

growing up in new england, i was taught that the first thanksgiving was about pilgrims coming together to celebrate a harvest with the indigenous people who had saved them from oblivion by teaching them to farm. this myth is problematic in its own ways but it's at least better than chauvinism.

My basic problem with abolitionism is that it transform what is a political problem—police depts run against the interest of the communities they police—into a metaphysical problem

ah man, me too.

even though I rationally have come to expect it it never ceases to be shocking how readily and sloppily major financial institutions will abet fraud to swipe a couple grand from a person in poverty struggling to keep a roof over their head

if rich people with good credit got dragged into the consumer debt courts for letting their balance stay too high or missing a few payments on accident, Capital One, Citibank, Wells Fargo, and most major auto loan servicers would end up nationalized within a decade

On the very rare occasions rich people get sucked into the child welfare system, they genuinely can’t believe how it works.

if you're going to snark at someone you have better got a good one in the chamber when they come asking for what you actually mean