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Sadly, I think the closest that Trump will ever get to pardoning a person of color will be Dinesh D’Souza.

If you’re an old-timer like me, you’ve seen the fundamentalist Christians in the US undergo a, well, let’s say change, since evolution isn’t part of their vocabulary. In the ‘70s, I was in middle school and met a young woman who was a high school student and counselor at a camp I was at. When she said that she didn’t…

Huh? Like those repressive regimes in Norway and Sweden?

Or something like this heroic old dude: https://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Man-rips-leopards-tongue-out-20050622

Sadly for humans, we’re the low-hanging fruit for a weakened predator.

Relajate, Francisco!

You know, when I first read the percent of white women who voted for Trump in 2016, I thought it was a typo. This shit, the nutter calling the cops on a Yale student taking a nap- what the hell is wrong with these white middle-aged, middle class women? Have we spawned a generation of Edna Kravitzes from “Bewitched?” I…

I’m not unconvinced that Khaled isn’t some kind of “Island of Dr. Moreau” cross between a human and an elephant seal.

My 8 year old son is biracial European/Asian. We were watching TV a few months ago and after a commercial, he asked me, “Dad- in TV shows and stuff, why is the black dad always darker brown than the black mom?” We’d already had the ‘Hapa people are automatically beautiful’ stereotype talk, so this lead to more…

My kids are in a district that is 72% white, 15% Asian (children of Chinese and Indian immigrants), 7% multiracial (almost exclusively European/Asian), 4% Hispanic, and 3% African-American. There is a ‘gifted students’ program starting in second grade through high school. The highest-scoring students are in separate…

For these kinds of parents, #7 at the top tier school is preferable to #1 at a second or third tier school. My wife has been a university professor for about 15 years now. When she taught at a large state university, she said every fall she’d run across students who would implode, going from the ‘golden child’ #1…

And because of this, she should make as much per speech as an elementary teacher makes in a year? I guess my anti-royalist sentiments are too strong for some people.

At the end of every October, my neighborhood is overrun by masked little mo’foes, no doubt up to no good. I’m thinking the local cops should just run them all over with their ‘police tanks’ to keep us safe.

Dude, 20 years ago, I would have agreed with your comment. The goals posts have been moved. I live in Trumpland, and can ‘pass’ when I’m at my property that I own out in the country. The shit I’ve heard from fellow middle-aged white guys is scary: video game-like fantasies of driving around in their pick-ups, shooting…

And the cops involved in Georgia knew this. Why else move vans to block the view of the arrests from the media?

Likely apocryphal story about Evita Peron. Evita gets into a limo with a high-ranking naval officer after running the gauntlet of protesters. She turns to him and exclaims, “The nerve of those people- calling me a whore,” to which the officer says, “Well, I haven’t been on a boat in decades and they still call me…

And if her name were Chelsea Rodham, the daughter of a woman who once dated (and got knocked up by) Bill Clinton, Little Rock’s most successful used car salesman, no one outside of a small academic circle would care what she had to say. And I doubt she would have gotten into Oxford for those graduate programs if she…

The way Hoover abused his power to pry into the private lives of so many people (not to mention his ‘50s “Red Scare” that drove countless gay men from government jobs), it’s great karma payback that pretty much everyone under the age of 70 associates him with being a cross-dressing troll and not some hero.

I think the Reagans spurned McCain and his new wife because it was a constant reminder of Nancy’s second wife status and because Nancy was a chorus girl with pretensions who found people born into money and power challenging to her own narrative.