Don't have a problem with it, just with the general American approach toward social justice, which seems to be oddly consumerist. Wendell Pierce is just doing what he does, but most activists out there don't really have the resources to open grocery stores, namsayin?

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The safeguard is, the moment Whole Foods shows up, the moment it stops being the hood because the gentrification is complete.

I'm all for ending food deserts, but "This is the sort of activism that addresses real issues", really? The best sort of activism is the type that involves opening businesses? I cannot take America sometimes.

That jokes is actually funny. I like the subversion of treating the hunt for Bin Laden as a trivial feminine grudge (especially considering all the macho rhetoric surrounding it at first).

Perhaps, but pretty much all discussion about the character of "generations" is about the upper middle-class white people of those generations.

Uh, real wages have not really increased over the past 20 years, only corporate profits. Hold on, I'm trying to find a reputable graph.

The recovery since the biggest economic crash in 70 years is quite suspect, where unemployment numbers are going down because people stop looking for work, and many of the jobs that are created are low-paying part-time service sector jobs. The future of America is not so bright for an increasingly large number of…

Personally, I'm counting on houses in Detroit staying $10,000. Go MidWest not-getting-any-younger Lad, but yes, also equally scared.

I find it's better to use certain cultural markers than hard dates. Generally, you're a millennial if you grew up with the Internet and 9/11 happened in your formative years. If the end of the Cold War still seems like a significant event to you, then you're probably not a millennial.

One thing I've noticed coming out of an "elite" college, is that us young people are not for lack of desire to help the world, but that many are incapable of divorcing their egos from the idea. They'd rather work at a nonprofit funded by corporate cash building shoddy infrastructure in Africa because it makes THEM…

I'd like to believe that our generation is less materialistic than others but every time I turn around I hear another Drake song or find another site dedicated to "young adult finance" or know someone who's bought 3 different iPhones in one year. If we're getting less materialistic, it's because we're getting more…

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/09/fear-of-a-black-president/309064/

But you guys just don't understand how much brush there was to clear. And who else was going to clear it?

Drug test 'em all.

What I've come to realize, is that semi-well-to-do conservatives just really hate tax day, and the idea that there are people in this world for whom filing taxes isn't a gigantic pain in the ass. It really has nothing to do with "skin in the game" or any of it, they just feel that filling out a bunch of complex…

That's always the argument monarchists make, but in the long term, freedom eventually wins out I believe.

Is there a way to embrace ribald and bawdy humor without being sexist? There's got to be a way to remove the structural oppression without falling in to the "feminist fun police" false choice. From what I remember about computer science culture, programming language very easily lends itself to dirty jokes, and of the…

"GLUTEN ISN'T GOOD FOR YOU. I love bread and pasta. But c'mon everyone, read a book. I say this as someone who eats gluten products, but not every day, every meal." If gluten is so bad, don't you think, like, civilization wouldn't have happened? People have subsisted on gluten for thousands of years. There's nothing…

Heart goes out to the folks with Celiac, but for everyone else, my question is: If gluten is so bad for everyone, how the fuck did civilization happen, since it was kind of founded on bread?