That’s where I was heading with that…

Arky, I’m prepared to take you up on that. Other guys, sorry, but I don’t have a basement. Nor do I know what granola is (nor wish to know, for that matter. Sounds unpleasantly like what Terry Pratchett described as “that bowel-lacerating breakfast concoction you favour”).

Will the persecution of wingnuts never end? They can’t drop racial slurs into casual conversation, slap women around, or shoot liberals for sport. Where, oh where, is your compassion?

Well, I don’t know about everyone else’s, but mine is down in the dungeon, chained to a wall, blindfolded and tremulously awaiting its taste of the Captain’s Daughter.

I should say that I do know that men are abused as well by men and women, and that women abuse men and women. We’re a pretty shitty species when we want to be, and socially conditioned to believe a lot of weird-ass controlling and cruel behavior looks a lot like love. So, yeah, while in my experience men with female partners who beat them are rare, they absolutely do happen, and can become seriously horrible situations. But as someone pointed out, it’s actually the Old Guy Carey types who spend a lot of time emphasizing those statistically less frequent incidents so as to pretend that largely epidemic abuse against women doesn’t exist, which you can also see at play in the “he yelled at the game” bullshit he’s spewing here too. It happens, it’s bad, I’d like to see it all stop and abused persons of any gender have been welcome to my spare room in the past and probably will be again. But still, if you put the lie in play to argue some theory of discrimination against you, you should be prohibited from using the truth you’re trying to discredit to argue some other theory of discrimination against you.

Just like the fuckwit congressperson who I caught today explaining that Ronald Reagan fixed Social Security should be stood up and pelted with tomatoes every time his colleagues attempt to argue that Social Security needs fixing, preferably by just cutting the whole thing and putting old poor people on ice floes.

Again, not particularly coherent though I think it’ll do, but just you grammar nazis come over here and take my fucking meds and you try it, okay? The hell of it is I’m still hallucinating, but I’m pretty sure the Congresscritter I just referred to actually is real, if not, as the kids used to say, “for real”.

Carey Roberts is an analyst and commentator on political correctness. His best-known work was an exposé on Marxism and radical feminism.
Mr. Roberts’ work has been cited on the Rush Limbaugh show

Rescrew America

Some days, it must seem like Sadly No has taken over the internet already.

I do not think this fellow is using sound principles of statutory interpretation here. Even if his language was correct and his interpretation the most obvious one, he might be surprised to learn that courts do not always use the literal interpretation of the statutory language in deciding how it will be applied. In fact, sometimes their interpretations seemingly run counter to the plain meaning of the statute!

That would require him to think. And he’s only got ten minutes to get to the TeeVee room before Mrs. Smith does, otherwise she’ll put her dentures on his chair, thereby biting him on the ass as she cackles with glee. Of course, if he didn’t yell at the TeeVee the whole time Golden Girls was on, she wouldn’t do that.

And really, they’re slacking…no mention of this from the bill?

(3) that individual, in response to actual or threatened domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, or stalking, requested that the employer or public agency implement a reasonable safety procedure or a job-related modification to enhance the security of that individual or safeguard the workplace involved

I would have thought that there would be some whining about this. I could think of a dozen things to whine about in that passage – if I was a conservative.

If you tell him you’re coming, he’ll probably bake a cake.

I don’t have a dog in this fight; I was responding originally to actor212′s suggestion that perhaps there is not/never was a link between episodes of domestic violence and televised sports events such as the Super Bowl.

I’ve long been intrigued by the vociferousness (some might even say viciousness) with which so many “feminist” studies are initially and immediately met with derision, and then attacked and reattacked (and occasionally even tested and retested! but not necessarily) until someone or other declares the originating study to be a totally made up crackpot-idea with no possible basis in reality whatsoever.

So the dude was rooting for Arizona in the first half and the Steelers in the second? Enough reason to haul his schizo ass to court!

Not now, Cato!!!

What?