Maggie McNeill

RT @Maggie_McNeill: THIS RIGHT HERE. The information in a ten-minute video, if written out, can be read in about 90 seconds, and skimmed e…

RT @Maggie_McNeill: If your headline or lede in a story about an appeals court decision comes across like a trick True-False question, you'…

RT @Maggie_McNeill: Whenever my income tax is dramatically higher than I expect (which happens in about 40% of years), I always get very up…

RT @Maggie_McNeill: Since Harvard doesn't seem to think proper terminology is important, I'm here to inform you that librarians call this a…

RT @Maggie_McNeill: The US is & always has been a nation of immigrants; the current denial of that is sheer madness. Many white folks seem…

RT @Maggie_McNeill: "Imagine" is the right word. You could also imagine getting there by wishing, a Star Trek transporter, astral projecti…

RT @Maggie_McNeill: @AnarresAnsible If you think I *want* the US to fall, you haven't been reading very carefully. What I've always said i…

RT @Maggie_McNeill: I guess it must be comforting to have a mind so narrow and shallow that it can truly sum up its beliefs in short, chant…

RT @Maggie_McNeill: PROTIP: If you aren't *very* familiar with the topic you're opining on, avoiding the phrase "of all time" will help you…

RT @Maggie_McNeill: There are pathetic attempts at "negging", and then there's this.

RT @Maggie_McNeill: Whenever I see a headline proclaim that "we" (meaning Americans or Westerners or whoever) did some stupid, destructive…

RT @Maggie_McNeill: @mistressmatisse @WinniePond @eseell You can see it in all kind of laws & popular beliefs: no sex offenders near a scho…

RT @Maggie_McNeill: @mistressmatisse @WinniePond @eseell These kind of notions are very revealing. In a rational world governed by discove…

RT @Maggie_McNeill: The problem, of course, is that authoritarians will claim these are "isolated incidents", just like every time a cop co…

RT @Maggie_McNeill: @mistressmatisse @uppittynegress Wisdom is reaching the point where you actually understand the meaning of the expressi…

RT @Maggie_McNeill: It's not bad enough that many people are so stupid they actually believe that wealth consists of big piles of paper mon…

RT @Maggie_McNeill: "Inmate" is one of those words that isn't quite a euphemism, but is still much softer-sounding than "prisoner", and far…