Other than obviously Richardson's rep's comments, why do you think it's probably a fake?

Actually, I am from Kentucky and until recently I had no knowledge of what my ancestry was (nor did my family). There were no family stories of the "motherland" or "when we came over." My mother's large extended family includes hundreds of people (Catholics!). When I started researching, I found out that I am an 8th…

As a person from this region (Southern VA), many people have been in the area for over 4-5 generations, many much longer, and therefore consider their heritage to just be, well, American. For my family, at least, they came over as farmers and became sharecroppers on tobacco farms in the Piedmont area of Virginia.…

I worked for the census. 95% of people who said "American" were Glen Beckian conservatives who viewed us as Obama's storm troopers. They were all crazy pricks. This was in a very blue part of a very blue state, mind.

I assumed "American" was "family's been here for over 200 years and at this point is a broad mix of mostly Western-European heritage"? But I'm nowhere on there, so who knows.

I think it's also possible that they are have no knowledge of nor connection to their ancestors' countries of origin. If asked, I can say that to my knowledge my ancestors were Scottish, Irish, and German but in all known cases they immigrated to this country well over 100 years ago and in at least one case almost 200…

Would you consider "wanting to make a political point" a form of Nativism? Because that's what I bet a lot of it was — the type of people who say "There shouldn't be African-Americans or Italian-Americans, we're just Americans!"

American = Scotch-Irish

What was your MOS?

I guess there's a good argument to be made for getting those luxuries you can keep when you're young, before other economic priorities kick in.

Vaguely turned on by the idea of my partner porking a dude-version of me, tbh

Usually when I order chinese, I order enough for multiple meals, because I like leftovers. But I always feel bad about myself when I see how many forks and fortune cookies they include. Sometimes I yell upstairs to a fake person that "the food is here" so that the delivery person doesn't know it's all for me.

too bad she's Kirsten Dust now, courtesy of Antonio Banderas :-D

Well I was accepted to Recruit Training Center Great Lakes! Beat that, kid.

This is one of things where I have no idea where the line should be drawn and so I end up stating a general opinion that has no real substance.

A joke with free wine, though!

I've never actually taught at a school with ranked sports teams, but I've still encountered pressure from coaches and school policies to allow athletes to miss classes and get special treatment.I think we're going to see a major sea change in college athletics in the decades to come. There's clearly a double standard…

Hey, all! Thanks for the correction! I'm so sorry—I definitely didn't mean to erase anyone's ethnicity or experiences. I clearly should have looked it up. I've actually never seen the show; I was just going by what the 12-year-old told me. (Now I will NEVER TRUST HER AGAIN.) It was part of a much larger conversation…

Also, my original post should have said "above-the-line."

We're both right. I was talking in terms of corporate accounting. Corporations get to deduct expenses from gross revenues and are only taxed on their net revenues. Natural people don't get to do that. We are taxed on our gross income and have to pay our expenses with what is left over.

What you're talking about is…