I wish I had the privilege of willful ignorance. Must be nice huh?

Great aricle, I've been talking about how Duncan's being turned away totally happened due to the intersection of being poor, black, and foreign. It's not hard imagine if a pert white Christian missionary returning from West Africa had come in that the situation would have looked drastically different.

Cue the oblivious angry "what racism?!" readers. In 3...2....

If this isn't a glass houses situation, nothing is.

It really is funny when they try this, isn't it? It's like watching me trying to write left-handed.

Troll harder.

I can't believe I'm going to say it: But I agree with Megyn Kelly today.

Yeah I guess I'm with Megyn Kelly on this one. As completely out of touch as Gwynyth is, why split hairs? Her hearts in the right place. I mean if it was a government funded research team it'd be six elderly men making statements about women's pay.

TRUE TALK: I thought that pic of Greta Van Susteren was Bruce Jenner at first glance.

It wasn't till my mid-20s I finally got it: NOBODY CARES. No one gives a shit. Absolutely no one.

I think about this a lot, what I would tell myself, but I know myself and I know the nature of 14-year-olds and I just don't think ninth-grade me would listen. Believing you are the only one who FEELS things and that no one else understands you is kind of tantamount to the high-school experience, I think.

That being…

It's even more insidious than that. There is such a stigma attached to asking for the help that is available that some people would rather go hungry (and their children, too) than reach out for assistance because they are ashamed and feel like they should "pulling their own weight" by their bootstraps like real…

She is SO GOOD in HTGAWM... Just... sublime.

I wish I could say it astounds me, but I've met some of those people. Humanity isn't their strong suit.

It will always astound me that this happens in the richest countries in the world, all because some people want to make sure no one gets what they worked for for free, for any reason.