"The original Bolt started sometime around 1996. I joined as a freshman in HS in that year, and it was very, very small. For the most part I loathed the badge thing, excepting the fact that I trumped most people in membership-year badges."

"Corporate. Welfare. To. Big. Corporations. Like. Planned. Parenthood. I reiterate: You're an idiot."

"I believe firmly that there are some rights that the federal government MUST uphold, that the states cannot have the right to withhold from it's citizens, and I believe that it's disingenuous to pretend that allowing the states to withhold…"

"Citation needed, Alan. The much bandied about 50% divorce statistic makes marriage seem like a much riskier chance to take than it actually is."

"Legal abortion, arguably here to stay. But access? Jurisdictions all over the nation have been running Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers out of town, and legislators are making it happen. Look, I would super dig better foreign policy,…"

" Yeah, Ron Paul has some super shiny things to say if you're a white Christian male. Other than that, though, sucks to be you. Love, The woman who would like to retain control of her utuerus more than she'd like to see pot legalized."

"What marriage is to any one couple is fine. This whole "I hate couples who move on from their marriages for reasons that are dissatisfying to me" schtick is ridiculous. People who marry, generally, intend to spend their lives together.…"

"It's all fine and good, yes-- some people are nice, some people are assholes, race is irrelevant. But people of color are systematically disadvantaged in our society. You can't just say HEY WE DIDN'T MEAN IT and pretned like…"

"Really, ally? A man should be given the right to make decisions regarding the health and body of a woman just because he's slept with her? A man's contribution to a pregnancy is DNA, and that's pretty much it. A necessary factor, to…"

"Firstly I don't think anyone has ever accused the GOP of being too racially inclusive. Secondly, the concept of "transcendence" is delightful if you don't have centuries of racial division. You can't just start with a clean…"

"Pro child, pro family, pro choice. What a woman does and does not want to happen to her body is not for anyone to decide but her. Period. Full stop."

"Do it when you want to. If that means you wait until marriage, awesome. If that means you do it tomorrow, great. Either way, make it what you want it to be. Own your decision and stop thinking about what you think it says about you to others. There…"

"If you aren't comfortable with her level of physical contact, tell her. You have a right to only be touched when you want to be touched. However, I don't think her sexuality is necessarily relevant here. Most of my female friends are…"

""social non-issues".... spoken like someone unaffected by those social issues personally. For those of us who are women, or LBGT, those are important and very real issues, and differentiate the two candidates plenty. I'm paraphrasing…"