This is the region I and most of my ancestors are from. A lot of whites with roots in that territory are from families that have been there so long they have no sense or even knowledge of their European ancestry. That big wave of European immigrants that hit the US in the late 19th and early 20th century did not come…

I can't be the only one who misread the title as "Joe Biden" and thought "well, I guess there is no such thing as a private life when you're the Vice Prez"/ was lowkey interested :/

Pembroke Pines is misspelled...

Callie - it's "Pembroke Pines" not "Penbroke Pines".

Um. Are you saying that well built buildings should remain intact if a plane crashes into them? I am neither an architect nor an engineer, but I would expect at least SOME of the blame for the building's collapse would be placed on the fact that A PALNE JUST CRASHED INTO THE BUILDING.

Here is a link to the Common Core Standards.

I don't know if this will help any at all, but back when the molestation scandal broke there were a couple of Catholic families who joined my church (Episcopalian) and I asked one kind of a similar question. She said that while the small differences in the service were a little weird, she didn't feel like less of a…

There are a lot of reasons to be against the CC, but nonexistent sex-Ed standards is a new one on me.

Only profession I can think of besides politicians where there is something negative every single day in the press.

And for the kids and m/f to blame the teachers.

Yes. Everyone that lives in a tailor is trash and could never be beautiful. That is for white women that are raised in suburbia and are middle class. Ugh.

I think it's odd in general to think of a relationship as a job. I'm a wife but I don't think of myself as a psychologist, financial advisor, chef, prostitute and laundress. As a friend I don't think of myself as a events manager, life coach, psychologist, companion and career counselor. That's weird. All of our…

I am a mom and it is definitely a lot of work. Different work than my 8-5 corporate gig, but certainly work. But this bugs me for a few reasons.

Just as a heads up, it's a little off to discuss racism and protected speech in a post and then use a phrase like "paddy wagon" which is pretty demeaning in origin.

The whole thing is a tragic accident. Believe me those officers did not wake up that day looking forward to kill someone..let alone an innocent victim. They are trained to protect and to stay alive themselves. They are human too and humans make mistakes everyday. It's so easy to comment how perfect you would've…

Why am I talking about this? Because I object to opinion being touted as fact; it encourages a mob mentality, which is harmful to society. See also: Fox News.

Kid says teacher said something, everyone here automatically believes kid without hearing the teacher's version of events?

Hearing more from Bernice won't help. Whether or not she has meaningful dementia, she's vulnerable, and her son — upon whom she probably depends in numerous ways — is upset. If she consented and enjoyed herself, now she's being pressured to say otherwise. If she didn't feel comfortable telling WHOEVER wheeled her…

Or possibly she conducted the interview through email so that her spokespeople could carefully craft those bland Women's Studies 1100 one-paragraph responses for her, lest we all suddenly realize the emperor has no clothes and Beyonce is not the Rhodes scholar on 21st-century feminist discourse we want her so…

"I'd like to believe that my music opened up that conversation."