White people who say racism is over are lying. I can’t tell you how many times I hear something racist in a group of white people who assume I somehow agree with them (not my friends and loved ones, acquaintances and strangers). I’ve found that instead of arguing with them, it’s best to just say that they are…

Sometimes my little reptile brain still tries to go to Gawker. If you can’t waste time on the internet, you’re doing it wrong. As a hobby, I can become an expert on anything. Anachronistic medical conditions, murders, lesser known historical figures, the Jolie-Pitts - I will learn everything I can about them, and…

John Henryism! It’s real. Being an iconoclast takes a toll on the body. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/opinion/sunday/why-succeeding-against-the-odds-can-make-you-sick.html

Point: yes, they are insufferable counterpoint: http://www.onthecommons.org/magazine/new-york-city-shows-how-co-op-housing-can-work#sthash.0IvRkQS7.dpbs

I am here to add that the Democratic Party’s long history of fucking unions is leading to the decline of unions as well. Basically, blame bullshit neoliberalism.

I guess my point is that three days is not enough time. You seem to think it is a lot of time. Maybe it is because I am an old, but I would prefer mindful analysis rather than bullshit process piece.

Yes, these stories and the responses to them should not be written on internet time. People should think about them, everyone deserves more. It has also become clear that this type of behavior is so Omnipresent that sweeping unqualified assessments are almost guaranteed to come back and bite people in the asses.

I’m not sure if this article nailed what was wrong with Babe’s piece either. The Babe article definitely had a whiff of sloppy reporting, and almost veered into gossip. I HAVE NOT LIKED any of the responses I have seen so far, especially those who shamed the victim. As institutions failed to deal with sexual…

Did they win? They can do whatever they want if they follow the rules, and even then they just get disqualified. Why is experimentation with approach so terrible? Debates rarely seem coherent if you don’t know the setup. Also, I have known some debate people who were slaves to a debate dogma that rewarded the OCD…

Define “hoax.” Someone is still using racial power to terrorize students. Seems pretty real to me.

I was thinking that it was more of a modest boast.

You make a valid point. Shrubbery has never been more at risk from men in power. Overall, Ona scale of Jimmy Carter to Bill Cosby measuring sexual macho aggressive behavior, I rate Billy Boy’s piece as George Clooney saying he always knew that “Harvey loved his girls” while remaining willfully ignorant of what those…

This whole thing made me want to tear my hairs out of my head one by one. The amount of false equivalence - affairs among consenting adults is not the same as seeking out young women. Last time I checked, no one had given Bob Menéndez a pass, they were hoping he would go away. Foz News [mistake and I’m keeping it]…

Is this a stupid question: instead of characterizing people as useless, characterize their arguments as useless? I know it’s not satisfying, seems harmless, and doesn’t get a lot of clicks, but repackaging dehumanization and targeting it back at a group perceived to be in power, just perpetuates power imbalance. You…

Nevermind that it is not actually native tribes doing the drilling. This is all “managed” by Department of Interior, which has “managed” to lose billions of dollars held in trust for tribes while polluting their land and water. I am pretty sure that the tribes are less than excited about more extraction.

That is true. However, this case is not just about police brutality. In Utah, if you test positive for any illegal substance, no matter if you could not be under the influence, the test result can be used against you. In most jurisdictions, high speed police chases are, if not prohibited by law, discouraged by policy.…

Actually, that does matter. The reason such a significant percentage of our money tests positive for cocaine, is not because everyone used every single bill to snort cocaine, it is because those bills pick up residue when they come into contact with bills that have drug residue on them, and because law enforcement…

And, sometimes, super unironically unaware of how the misogynistic things they’re doing could also be interpreted as gay. Really, I am not entirely convinced that they weren’t trying to spell pear, while wearing ONLY short cut-off jean shorts and standing so close the smell of manhood was overwhelming. Or something.

Well, this happened because she put herself at risk to protect someone (whose race we don’t know). Also, to be clear, what the cops were doing here was covering their asses for prior bad acts, i.e., engaging in a dangerous high speed chase that is, if not against policy, creating a risk to members of the public. In…

With slavery, there is no incentive to pay workers, so nonslaves get screwed too. It reduces the total pool of available paid labor. The paid labor that was available, often involved repressing slaves, and later, black people, which kept these disenfranchised people from using the power they did have against the…