Actually, I disagree. The racism in the Midwest is really something to behold. It has literally destroyed whole cities (Detroit, Cleveland) and continues to fester. While in much of the South, the Voting Rights Act gave protections to black voters, those protections never existed in non-Confederate states—which has…

I haven’t heard anything in particular, but I’d be shocked if he weren’t getting racist hate mail on the reg. Plus, his team has completely collapsed on itself—so if he hasn’t gotten a dose of serious racism, he probably will next fall.

I suspect the rednecks in College Station enjoyed the tokenism of having Sumlin as…

Might be sarcasm—but I genuinely like the fortune idea. “You’re not pregnant!”

Oh, I’m right on top of THAT, Rose.

I completely agree—When I saw that photo of her on the cover of Love (which is styled beautifully, btw), it broke my heart. If I were her parents, I’d be even more heartbroken. That look of malaise and boredom is so practiced. I just... it would crush me if my 15 year old was wearing that look in her eyes. It’s plenty…

I agree that their gender probably isn’t WHY they’re being written out—but don’t you think it’s still significant in the big picture that systemic power is feeding into a situation where women could potentially not get top billing for technology that they pioneered (and thus not get the monetary rewards or…

Aside from the fact that personal experience is good and fine, but at the end of the day anecdote (You don’t expect a surgeon treating your appendix to have suffered from appendicitis themselves necessarily, do you?), white, straight men can engage in studying an issue just as much as anyone else. But that’s totally…

Are you claiming that he maintained the same brand from CC to CBS? Because that’s patently untrue. And he’s clearly not as progressive as a person can be. John Oliver’s show is more progressive than Colbert’s W. Kamau Bell’s show is more progressive. There’s probably others—but that’s just off the top of my head.

Well, given that when he moved from Comedy Central he had to completely revamp the style of show and find a new voice, I’m gonna say... nah. Not buying it. He had the opportunity to shape a particular voice (and he still does—he hasn’t even been on CBS for a year yet), and I think it probably seemed too ambitious when…

Right—but that’s my point. If he wants to consider himself more progressive (and apparently he does, because he feels like he should apologize for having only one woman writer), then he maybe actually needs to practice seeing the world (and telling jokes) that relate to other people’s perspectives.

And that’s good (I guess)—But it also says that perhaps Colbert’s more comfortable with the writing of people who are EXACTLY like him. So, he doesn’t practice intentional discrimination, but that’s how privilege is perpetuated, none the less. This is exactly why affirmative action was put in place and why it can…

That might be true—he might do as well as Obama (which is sort of a mixed statement—I think Obama did as well as any human could’ve been expected to do in his circumstances, but we have to acknowledge that, out of an idealistic desire to strike real compromise, he ended up selling the farm to Republicans on several…

I truly wish this were true. But in the event that Dems get a majority in both houses (which is absolutely not a foregone conclusion), that doesn’t mean they’ll actually pass single-payer. Dems are on health insurance lobbyists’ payrolls and speed dials the same way that Republicans are. If single-payer can be…

PREACH. I LIKE Bernie. I do. I think most Hillary supporters do. But let’s be realistic. Obama was harassed and cowed his entire presidency despite valiantly trying to compromise with Republicans. Do we seriously think that they’ll suddenly decide to start working with Progressives? Especially ones that openly…

I didn’t really think the joke was a “women drivers” joke, though. It was more of a “we’ve been so distracted and enthralled by Jenner’s transformation (and associated bravery, rolemodeling, inspiration, etc.) that we basically are ignoring that she killed someone and got away with no consequences” joke. Basically: a…

Amen. The author seems to have completely missed the point of that whole “reunion.” It was clear that they hate each other. Gibson actually physically threatened Gervais, and Gervais responded by taking every opportunity to antagonize Gibson. There was no reconciliation there—just awkwardness and simmering dislike.

Strangely, I’m a little bit pleased by this. As a Texan, I think a lot of us thought Abbott was gonna be a little less off the deep-end than ol’ Rick Perry was—so, it’s good that he’s making such a huge stink about this completely insane plan and just really letting all his stupidity fly to the open air. The more…

One other thing I found interesting—the cops never even tested Avery’s mattress for Halbach’s or Dassey’s DNA—even after Dassey’s interrogation. To me, that shows that they never believed Dassey’s version of events, but prosecuted him anyway. Because how do you accept someone’s confession that they tied her to a bed…

Please tell me it’s been egged.