I’m neither an American nor an American football viewer but I’ve always been troubled by the fact that the stadiums are full of angry white people cheering on black men in their prime giving each other concussions. It evoked something akin to gladiators to me.

You may be right. And I might be just identifying with her too much.

I’m so sorry. I hope things improve soon for you and your brother. 🌸

My money is solidly on “when Barack Obama re-enters the public sphere to seriously elevate Democrats across the country prior to elections”.

My in-laws reauested that I make pepperonata rustica from the ad hoc at home cookbook again for Christmas, so I’ll be finishing that up tomorrow with roasting the peppers, I made the sofrito that takes about three hours to make today. It turns out so good, just takes so long to make.

Cooking thread!

My kidddo & I LOVED Gullah Gullah Island! This story just gave me goosebumps of joy!

“If you put a bunch of crabs in a barrel, one crab will inevitably try to escape by convincing the other crabs to invest their crab dollars”

You have to be clinically out of your goddamn mind to trust a cop today. The culture of American policing is now everyones’ craziest Fox News-addicted uncle, times 10.

I had a rather excitable guy come to me at the library a couple of days ago wanting books about “The Moors” and eventually through much frustrating back and forth that he was not talking about the muslim inhabitants of the iberian peninsula during the middle ages, but the magical negros who came to the americas before…

“Every time I went to court, they made me feel like I was the worst human ever.”

I’m glad that Dad finally got his son. Now I hope he sues everyone, who kept his child away from him, into oblivion.

I still at times can’t believe that our love created life!

Look, that first guy, ByTheHandOfSisko, that you’re calling for the Reign of Terror and stuff. This is ‘Murrica, God damnit. He (or she) is right.

From the Politico article: “Ryan followed: “Something this big, something this generational, something this profound could not have been done without exquisite presidential leadership. Mr. President, thank you for getting us over the finish line, thank you for getting us where we are.”

This has been my personal favorite explanation of his stupid face so far:

Doing something even when you’re scared is the true meaning of brave. Thank you for speaking up, and I hope things get better for you quickly.

I see what you’re saying.

Some of my frustration with Dr. West and Tavis Smiley’s criticism of President Obama was that they acted as though President Obama’s policies were some sort of shocking betrayal. President Obama, when he was candidate Obama, was very clear about how he would govern. Going back to his days at the Harvard Law Review he…

The thought of Michelle in a fascinator is all that’s sustaining me during these dark times.