NPR fan right here too, still can make fun of NPR listener stereotypes.

Then polish the lenses furiously, brow furrowed.

Omg I love NPR I could go on for days about the best podcasts! If you’ve liked TAL so far check out Snap Judgement. It is also storytelling but much more diverse (TAL is excellent, especially their recent episodes about police violence, but it is made by a bunch of white people and you can definitely tell that…

Horn-rimmed glasses tho.

I really hate the way people hold up not engaging with pop culture as some kind of status symbol.

“they’re all prissy white people who think they’re above such banal things as knowing who Kim Kardashian”

I believe myself to be a guinea pig. Do you think think that if I wheek enough it will happen?

Dolezal was first asked if she had ever straight-up lied to someone about her race. She replied, “No, because never have I been asked, ‘are you human or are you not human?’ Race as a construct has a fluid understanding. So I would say no.”

“Lawrence Dolezal is reading about Joshua, he who slew Goliath.”

Okay...so if this is true then I don’t see a problem with her adopting her brother.

I agree. They don’t do the “taste test” they go to the buffet. Scary......

It was a reference to Jaws. Roy Schneider's character. It says something about my age that I didn't even think of Jenner when I thought of Brody.

Actually, I think he was in Vermillion Bay/Eagle River, which is 4 hrs west of us. My in-laws mentioned it because that’s where they’re from and he was fishing at a resort their friends used to own. I think Monster was in the title of the show but I don’t know if it was River Monsters.

Lol! No, I’ve never seen River Monsters. I come from the shores of Lake Superior. It’s a deep, dark, cold lake and who knows what’s at its bottom? It can be terrifying to think about. But, all in all, you’re in greater threat from land animals around here than anything identified in the lake.

I am guilty of many crimes against punctuation, so I may be a bad example. :)

Holy crap. That’s at least 110 people who need therapy to get over their irrational fears.

Right? She goes from “why isn’t there a white history month” to fake advocacy? WTF, someone with a psych degree, enlighten us, how does such a shift occur?

Jellyfish stings seem to be pretty common, though I don’t know that stats. Warmer ocean temps has meant more jellies, too.

Where is Chief Brody when you need him?