I didn’t know the American dream included self-help books.

Black person here. I think I meet the requirements you outlined: plenty of degrees (too bad you can’t resell those on eBay!), reasonable assets for a person born in the 80s (i.e. not super far into her career).

Yes!!!! Anytime I see “-nises” I just think “penises.” I’m not sure how anyone could not.

also, something like 50% of on the job police deaths are in car accidents, and most not while chasing a suspect. Just because you feel like your job is dangerous does not mean your job is that dangerous.

I remember one of my professors spending a lot of time discussing different ways of interpreting the word "normal." Not a single one is right all the time. Sometimes people mean "common." Sometimes people mean "approaching the statistical average." Sometimes people mean "ok." I agree with Rebekkah N. that this is…

If we were friends, I, too, would have told you to hurry up and get your IUD. My partner occasionally reminds me when we get ready to go out with his friends (who I don't know super well, and whose partners I know even less well) that not everyone wants to hear about my favorite form of contraception/what's hanging…

True. But I can honestly say that I have had conversations with white people who were not racist (at least, not the in the rabidly KKK kind of way), but who were truly clueless. And who really just struggle with the "well, black people understandably feel more emotionally about this and may be exaggerating things a…

I hear your point. But I'm also a pragmatist - which is what I think some other people are getting at. The thing is, black folks want to be safe in their communities. Yes, we also want conversations about our safety not to be co-opted as another time to spotlight whiteness, and we want good schools for our kids, and…

I don't know what world you live in where you think a person can't be seriously harmed because they say something to which others take offense. Here's perhaps an easier example: You get annoyed at your boss and insult his race, religion, and choice of partner. Hell, you just tell him he's a fucking…

"...but opponents, especially black people..."

I would pay someone to start slapping these over the flags on license plates. But only if they're as sticky as the registration stickers and you can't get them back off.

For quite some time, no one really raised a fuss about slavery. Pray tell, what is your point?

1. I'm not a Yankee.

I don't think the article, or the metrics used, took Australia into account at all. Just because Australians do something one way, doesn't meant that the people the article is referring to (American talk personalities, maybe Americans in general) don't do something else entirely.

So did you take the deal or not?

I thought this, as well. Maybe this guy just wants more naked pictures of real women. Maybe he's already seen all the porn.

I took the parenthetical "( preferable married to how wants the jeep)" to be a typo of "(preferably married to who wants the Jeep)." Meaning that the lady should be the wife of the man who wants the Jeep. Because women do not want their own Jeeps. Also, because boyfriends have not yet earned the right to trade their…

Interesting read, for sure. Its always nice to see someone stand up for what's right.

I wish that, before "news outlets" could "report" on something they read elsewhere, they first had to pass one of those little reading comprehension quizzes that were in reading workbooks in first and second grade. A lot of them would fail, maybe read it again and pass or maybe just not be allowed to "report" on that…

Loving all the "Liberty, Your State, USA" articles today.