I think the issue with Beasts Of No Nation not being nominated has more to do with it being on Netflix. The academy doesn’t want to reward a film that isn’t bringing people into movie theaters.

I know more than one woman who was on the fence about abortion until she had a baby of her own - then she became fiercely pro choice because she understood that no one should have to go through a pregnancy against their will.

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More like dragged along with family — you know the drill

Whenever I need a chuckle, I think of the boys who used to get high (on weed) behind the mosque on Saturdays.

I grew up in a Muslim household. My mother, our petty domestic tyrant, insisted that Western music and dancing was sinful. However, if you played some Somali music, she would wrap a scarf around her booty and start shaking it. Islam, depending on the locale and sect, has varying responses to different situation. One…