Well, the character in question was named Venkat Kapoor, so they still might have been upset if the guys you mentioned had been cast instead.

Was Mindy Park described as Korean in the book? I certainly pictured her that way, but I’m not sure the text was specific.

As I recall, the original marathon ended with the guy who made the run keeling over dead as soon as he delivered his message, which always seemed like a good reason not to put yourself through that sort of thing to me.

I’m not terribly familiar with that era’s musicals and epics, but I’m pretty sure the very, very few roles for people of color were of the Stepin Fetchit variety. I think most of them were just that one guy, actually.

So she favors 11 year olds getting pregnant? There are reasons beyond birth control to get these sorts of things anyway. My period all but disappeared with my IUD, and I can see why a kid with a heavy, painful cycle would want to try it so they could get back to running around outside.

Yeah, I’m sure all my sales were driven by my Tumblr, not their terrible search functions. For me, success is defined by being able to buy a Christmas present for my kid and my costs are practically nonexistent. For people sinking real time and money into it, I don’t see how it is worth it.

Etsy has been crying out for a competitor that actually has the juice to get past the general noise of internet sales, and this is exciting. On a related subject, I should make this into a pillow.

If it was a member, rather than a pledge, they were possibly trying to preemptively dodge hazing allegations by having members take part. It could be a fucked up bonding event for the house though. Either way, Greek houses love “tradition,” and they tend to do the same types of things year after year. I have strong…

The inability to get convenience foods is exactly what these companies are banking on. It negates much of why a gluten-free diet can make you feel better if you don’t have celiac disease, but most people don’t think critically about it, it’s just another diet to them.

They typically use flours like tapioca that have less nutritional value, less fiber, etc, and then have to load them up with more fat to make everything hold together without being a brick because that is what gluten is doing in other breads, batters, and doughs.

Most gluten free “bread” products are actually worse for you than the real thing. It is literally insane to eat them if you don’t have to.

The Air Force is infamous for its shitty, prejudiced evangelical Christian subculture.

Just sexually active or having unprotected sex?

My husband and I were walking past the Star Wars stuff at Target, talking about if the upcoming movies would even be good, and this creepy middle aged guy asked if we had heard about this auction. I said I had and if I had that kind of money, I’d rather have one of the ship models. He told me as a woman, I wouldn’t…

If they owed to staffers, that means anything from the campaign manager down to the kids running the phone banks for $2k a month. Consultants are a different story.

I definitely saw racial elements to how my fellow students were tracked at my majority minority school. Somehow there was room for the son of the high school VP and the daughter of the Board of Ed member in my overcrowded, very white honors classes even though they were middling students, but not several black and…

Forced birthers are all about, “Isn’t this icky? Doesn’t this make you uncomfortable?” They’ve gotten a ton of mileage out of it, so of course they won’t let facts get in the way.

I’m not. He doesn’t have a future in New Jersey because he’s term limited and he won’t get elected to the Senate. I think he’s running for an Attorney General nomination.

Someone missed my wedding because they had to spend the day searching for a suicidal family member (their body, as it turned out). Someone else didn’t come because they allegedly had a stomach virus. People miss weddings for all sorts of reasons, and I don’t know why you’d take it so personally. You pay pretty well in…

My baby resisted his vampire nature, so I gave up three months in and switched to exclusively pumping. I would have gladly gone full Office Space on that fucking machine.