Two years later, the first children.

Not the best video. I feel like it skipped over some of the most important history that directly impacts what is going on today. Everyone I meet who doesn’t understand ferguson or garner or Baltimore I always recommend Isabel Wilkerson’s book The Warmth of Other Sons.

“We have all become slaves”

Uhm, you are metaphorizing slavery and in so doing you’re erasing its specificity. No, being a cog in the machine — in an era better than all previous ones in terms of human rights, physical security, and material wellbeing— is nothing like being an actual slave.

Thank you for posting this Ellie. Man, is it my imagination, or were the articles especially good today?

Yeah, and just over half a century ago, this guy would have been refusing to issue licences to interracial couples.

“I’ve never cried over fireworks before but when they went off in Liberty I had a change of heart,” Davis said. “The part of our national anthem that talks about the bombs bursting in air and how our flag was still there made me think of how those men and women were persecuted (during the American Revolution) and…

Individual religious beliefs have nothing to do with who the state should allow to marry. If someone’s opposed to same sex marriage, they should refrain from entering one themselves and should join a religious denomination that shares their views, but there’s no reason a person who opposes same sex marriage on…

I find it rich that the same people who complain about lazy people on welfare are the ones refusing to, you know, actually do their jobs.

Yep, lobbying the governor to create a website that can do your job better, faster, and more cheaply than you can is definitely the smart move, Casey. What could possibly go wrong?

Wait, how was the fact that they let a homeopath teach the class not the headline of this story?

Here’s how to ace any homeopathy class:
1 - Fail the first test.
2 - Fail each subsequent test
3 - Cut up a piece of the first test
4 - Dilute it in water 10,000x
5 - Pour diluted water on subsequent test
6 - Watch F turn into…

“The Gun is Good! The Penis is Evil!”

Looks like Yanosh

You mean...

What is this collection of words, even? It’s no only offensive, it’s also nonsensical. “We’ll see what happens when more information comes out...” what more information could you possibly need other than the person admitting to doing the thing they’re accused of?!?!?! Also what the fuck is she talking about with this…

BITCH, HAVE A FUCKING SEAT.