US citizens: call on the Senate to reject the appointment of Neomi Rao as a federal judge.

Ms Rao's views on intoxication and rape fit the usual patriarchal pattern of searching for any excuse to blame the victim of rape. They never take that approach for other crimes such as robbery. Right-wingers never tell men, "Taking your wallet was not theft, because you consented by carrying it in your back pocket."

I wish the writers would avoid lumping rape together with a wide range of other actions under the term "sexual assault".

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US citizens: call on Congress to get the US out of the war in Yemen.

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Hasan Minhaj made a comic video, published via Netflix, that mocked the official Salafi Arabian story about how Jamal Khashoggi disappeared. The acting king declared the story illegal, so Netflix banned access to the video from there.

Because Netflix is the only distribution site, the only way anyone in Salafi Arabia can see the program now is via unofficial redistribution, which is hampered by Netflix's use of DRM.

Netflix has the power to entirely terminate distribution of any video it made, and the video would essentially disappear because there is no other place to get it.

Join me and flick off Netflix!

It does other injustices too.

"I used to defend smacking children. Now I see it as an abuse of power."

When my father, and sometimes other adults, punished me physically, that taught me fear and anger which lasted for years. Even decades later, though I no longer felt in physical danger from him, I did not trust him.

However, as I grew up, and saw other children behaving in intolerable ways, I saw the situation from the other side. What could I do to stop a child from doing things that were either dangerous or harmful to others, without losing my temper? It is easy to say, "Find some gentle way to solve the problem" — but I did not think I could find them. Maybe some other people, less easily upset than I, could do that, but I could see I would be stressed to my wits' end, and explode.

At that point I made a very smart decision: to avoid getting into that situation, by not having children.

When people see videos of blacks attacked by thugs, they often bend over backwards to find an excuse. This often takes the form of wondering what might have happened before someone started making a video of the attack.