His version of serious might be different from anyone else’s. If she was hit right in the mouth with a baseball, at that little, she could be dealing with a broken jaw, broken teeth, cracked bones in her face, and who knows what else that wouldn’t appear obvious to some rando in the stands.

Grownups act respectfully and talk about death all the time.

his daughter Autumn’s passing death

I sat in the front row just past third base at a White Sox game this year with my brother. He’s 32, and when we got down there he was like “You’re sitting on the inside and taking the death foul if it comes.” Do what you want, but I personally would never bring a kid into those seats.

No need to get banned.

Why is talking about the reality of what Black women face anti-Black male? We are always told we’re being divisive when we talk about what’s going on. It’s a great way to silence us and nothing has to change. This has nothing to do with white people and what they want.

or benefits someone they feel is unworthy

I think the decline of religious institutions in America is a big cause of this. Fifty or 70 or 100 years ago, the people who are joining Loom would have been joining a mainline Protestant denomination befitting of their perceived social status (and what are churches, if not “communities that are somehow better than…

This.

You might say that my ideals are unrealistic, and that coming from Quebec I am out of touch with the reality of American civic life in all its painful complexity.

This is a deeply worthy reason for existing; new families often need more support than the American health care system and nuclear family-oriented social structure are able to provide.

I announced my divorce two ways. The first was a straight ahead state on Facebook. The second was posting The Guess Who’s “American Woman” on Facebook the day she moved out. If you know my heritage, and hers, the song could be easily read a number of ways.

I grew up in Italy and movies like this irk me soooo much. Oh, look at me, I’m a weird American in the middle of an existential crisis. But I’m in Japan, so poetic, so inspirational, shot of the lonely American in the subway, surrounded by millions of Japanese people. It’s the same with Eat, Pray, Love. I’ve never…

Seriously. Especially after the Jennifer Lawrence/Javier Bardem nightmare that opened this weekend. I am so tired of how they play this young woman/older man pairing like it’s super common off screen.

Dude puts his dick in an inappropriate place. This is supposed to surprise me? This is all of western civilization.

The very first vacuum cleaners had the propeller just 2 inches down the hose to make repairs easier. They quickly changed that.

Thanks for mentioning this.

Jason Clarke is only 18 years older than Blake! Progress! [/s]

There are a lot of Hispanics that are white/can pass for white* and I have zero expectation of them. Those are the kind that will tell you “if I came here legally, then everyone else should.” Zero sympathy for their own people, and for many, zero understanding that you may think you’re white, but most Americans don’t,…

This is so, so, so true. I lost my dad last Father’s day completely suddenly....sitting there opening cards and talking about how he was going to play golf the next day, then just a couple hours later I’m in the hospital holding on to the doorframe of the room staring at him lifeless on a table. It will be a year…