Step 0.1 was left out:

“First, you have to make sure your existing shower floor is in good shape.”

Think of all the train operators the MTA could hire with the $100 million a year the city spends paying off the victims of the NYPD.

Not even a full week and I’m already tired of this motherfucker.

Nah that would violate their freedoms or something. Police brutality in NYC about to spike. Keep your cameras ready.

The cop thinks the solution to everything is more cops. This shit is so dumb you couldn’t even make it up. 

RIP....Impressive body of work by any standard.

Re: “Lack of Books” - I feel of two minds on this. Because I feel like books are meant to primarily be read, not displayed, and bookcases are meant to primarily be storage, not decor. Like, sure, display your books in a way that makes them and your home look nice, but you shouldn’t only display them for that purpose.…

The whispers is that there are New People In Charge (again) and .... yeahhhhh.  This is a great example that that rumor must be true.

Arianna is his niece. Reading comprehension can be your friend...

There’s likely an extradition arrangement between the U.S. and Haiti going on. Jamaica actually refused to cooperate with Haiti on this issue, which is why the alleged suspect was being sent back to Columbia.

That, or its so casually accepted that people would rather hold onto their half-hearted care for minor characters in pieces of genre fiction that they don’t even like than actually interrogate the origins of this supposed “mythological folklore”. That we’re so inundated with these caricatures that we don’t see them…

Have you considered that maybe the folkloric depictions of goblins are, themselves, laden with anti-Semitic tropes? 

I understand your frustration with TheRoot’s coverage of all that’s been going on in Haiti. I wept for all our cousins this summer. They’ve stayed on my mind for many years since 2007 when a Haitian dude in the Dominican Republic told me just a few of their troubles. He spoke about mothers literally mixing red dirt…

You new writers need to police these comments and stop ungreying every colonizer that appears!

I don’t know much about the Harry Potter, so I looked up these banking goblins. Holy cow, it’s less subtle than Watto or Nosferatu. I assume the goblins were described as such by Rowling and it wasn’t just the films’ character designers - right?

To be fair, there were so many people for whom Harry Potter was the only books they ever read and their sole cultural touchpoint (except for perhaps The Office and Friends) that who could expect them to understand any of the cryptobigotry?  

You mean to tell me that the TERF Wizard Lady who included a subplot in her books arguing that slavery is ok if the slaves are happy being slaves and whose only Asian and Irish characters are named “Cho Chang” and “Seamus Finnegan” respectively also had antisemitic stereotypes?/s

I have been a huge critic of the theRoot over its lack of coverage of the mess in Haiti, so here’s solid props for this story. If you don’t understand Haiti’s history, you don’t understand the current Black Diaspora’s condition, and you certainly don’t understand what white supremacy & white power is all about.

Backdoor effort to promote a show on the Simpsons, why I would never think that is a possibility.

“Thing I Didn’t Know Before Looking at Wikipedia: the show ended because Peppard didn’t want his wife getting more money in the divorce.”