Ricardo Hernandez spent the weekend sleeping in a van outside the Mexican ice cream shop he runs with his wife in South Minneapolis. He negotiated with protesters by handing over ice cream and Popsicles so they would leave the shop intact.
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Yes, it’s the Puerto Rican guy with the award winning rap musical featuring an all-minority cast who is the root of America’s festering race problem.
A few months back, when we all had time and space to worry about things other than the seeming end of the fucking world, Ellen DeGeneres sat next to George W. Bush at a football game and seemed to be having fun talking to him. A lot of people came down on her afterwards, though I personally wasn’t bothered that much;…
Or, you know, just stick with mineral sunscreen with titanium and zinc oxide which also does not kill reefs?
Or, you know, just stick with mineral sunscreen with titanium and zinc oxide which also does not kill reefs?
My kids are adopted— my son has significant needs, so a few things: The terms gotcha day and rehome are terms used in adoption. I have 2 cats and I always cringe when the word “adopted” is used about animals. I love my cats— they are not children. In our house we don’t do gotcha day, we celebrate family day with an…
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TIL being anti-racism is a controversial position, and some people hate profanity more than racism. Love America!
The green box in the upper right on that store’s sign is pretty funny. While at first glance it’s just “matsuko” with one kana censored to avoid a bunch of laws, in the context of a porn store it’s pretty likely that people will read that as “manko” instead. A snicker was produced.
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I read a recent article about Gloria Steinem in which she speaks about the Mrs. America series. Here is an excerpt of a quote by her:
I think in practice random celebrities tweeting “hey I did this really offensive thing in 1999, but I’m so sorry now” would come across as unbearably performative. Like they just want attention and pats on the back for being woke, and they think that now they’ve fessed up they’re immune to criticism.
Twitter is stupid, useless and needs to die. I'm sick of the faux outrage.
Every few years somebody drags up that Jimmy Fallon in blackface from 2000. NBC can’t fire him, he did it on SNL. They aren’t cancelling SNL.
It’s just as convenient as you asking me for examples from two years ago... I probably COULD find some of the same ones I read at the time, but I’ve also got a lot better things to do with my time, and I’m not overly concerned with satisfying your demand.
Wherever I read them online at the time, which was now two years ago. I also wrote that it was the tone and implicit suggestions of those pieces, not explicit statements, that I got from those pieces. Even if I were to spend the time to reread a bunch of old reviews to find some examples, you would surely argue (maybe…
I love comedy from John Mulaney to Dave Chapelle and everything in between. It’s not comedy if it’s not funny. Thats all that should really matter. Her dress size her sexual preference means fuck all when it comes to something being funny or not. Fortune Feimster is a lesbian comedian fucking hilarious same with Jessic…
To be fair, a lot of the rave reviews seem to carry overtones of moral superiority and suggest that those who don’t find it funny are the shitty people who are the targets of her barbs. In the same way that folks who don’t find it particularly funny can just quietly ignore it and go on about their lives, it’s just as…
“Watching this section, even from the safety of your couch, can be uncomfortable, as you know there are definitely anti-vaxxers squirming in their seats somewhere out of frame.”
An excellent evisceration of Gadsby and her nonsense from the brilliant Yasmin Nair.
Thank you, Lana! Don’t back down. If we no longer have room for open debate, we have a huge problem. She has clarified her position and what she feels to be the issues in culture and the music industry and feminism. No need to apologize.