Me too. I was shocked when it started raining in the el car when I read the news.

Yeaaaa! So proud to be from Illinois right now, even if we have the shadiest, slimiest politicians.

When I watched "Chicago" w/ Mr. SyDy:
Him: If you were going to kill me, how would you do it?
Me: If I tell you now, it'll spoil the surprise...

(they got better)

It's what the Founding Fathers intended.

She turned our key demographic into newts!

One more thing:

This is victim blaming. "Don't put yourself (or your child) in this position" is really the hallmark of victim blaming.
If you didn't want to be raped, why were you wearing a short skirt to begin with?
If you didn't want to be shot, what were you, a tall black man, doing walking around in the dark…

Yeah but if youre white and choose a non-traditional name like Apple or Olive or something this has virtually no stigma...

One of my college classmates whose family emigrated from Nigeria when she and her siblings were in grade school said that the principal of their first school had the audacity to call her mom in and "suggest" that she give them "American names".

I'm brown (interracial but look "black") and have an unusual name that starts with a K. the three reactions I have gotten to my name are 1, people who know the significance and comment on it, 2, people who think that it is "ghetto" or made-up, and 3, people who tell me that they know a Keisha. I was bullied at work by…

Dorothy: I don't think we're in Kansas anymore.

Changing my name from Lateef to Tyrone McBlackerson in protest.

Hmm. I grew up in a family where my parents yelled, a lot. My mother, in particular. I grew to write off her shrill fits as irrational, regardless of the content. A couple years ago I visited them. I hadn't lived with them for many years, or been around them, even. A screaming match broke out and I was shocked to…

If you die with cats, then you are not alone. =D

RUB A DUB DUB MOTHERFUCKERS

As an atheist and married 20 happy years to another atheist, this doesn't surprise me.

I just came here to say that the tag "Rub a dub dub motherfuckers" cracked my shit up. Thank you for that.

On a business trip, I stayed at an uberfancy hotel that had an infinity bathtub set into the floor. It was so amazing. Here I am, 26, saddled with student-loan debt, poor and alone in a strange country, eating room-service pizza out of an infinity bathtub.