I am a public school teacher, and yeah, sure teaching was not my first choice. Still, even though I am an example of what you are talking about, I think it was a needlessly harsh comment.

I am a teacher, and I truly wish I could believe your intentionally hyperbolic statement that teachers are considered heroes and nothing else.

“12.6% of local tv news staff.” What percentage of that includes on-air reporters? It really seems to me that local news stations make a serious effort to include minorities. Asian women seem to do very well in this department. Secondly, there seem to be a lot of very white looking tv news reporters with Hispanic…

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I guess every sport is different, and soccer might have an unwritten rule that you kick the ball out of play when this happens. I remember watching a baseball game 20 years ago, Dodgers at Padres. Bases loaded, Tony Gwynn at the plate. Gwynn hits a line drive to right field, it should have been a double. Outfielder…

sure, you can also include attitudes toward sexual harassment/assault into that as well. But compared to previous 20 year periods were these really “cultural tectonic shifts”? Compare:

I guess, that is how you feel. I am by no means a Titanic fan-boy, but that movie made a killing at the box office as well as at the Academy Awards. It is still completely watchable today. You might disagree.

I think that the Deerhunter was trying to be artistic, and didn’t give a fuck about realism: 1. Way too long Russyn wedding scene, 2) the actors are way too old to be Vietnam War soldiers, 3) they are clearly improvising some dialogue, and sometimes not very well. 4) the combat scenes are phony as hell.

That Steely Dan reference truly makes no sense. Steely Dan is your favorite band? Apparently a lot of musicians revere the Dan, but I like most people find them grating. This is my all time favorite Onion article: https://entertainment.theonion.com/donald-fagen-defends-steely-dan-to-friends-1819570386

Because your hair texture is an identifying trait of African ancestry, which is the topic of this article. If you yourself estimated your black ancestry as anywhere from 25% to 40%, and you are kind of pleasantly surprised that you are as high as 40%, having a photo with a hat defeats the purpose of having a photo in…

Sure, I am not talking about music quality at all. I am talking about how music has changed. Music changed tremendously from the 1960's to the 1980's. Since then, and especially since the late 1990's (which is how this conversation started).

Interesting, but Charlie Watts is 11 years older than Neal Peart.

“I have heard a point made about this that I fully agree with - At no point in history has culture, technology, lifestyle, everything changed so much so quickly.”

Yep, you can also tell the difference between songs recorded in the early and the late 1960's. There are also vast stylistic changes, which honestly, really seemed to have plateaued in the late 1990's to today. Seriously, if you went to Target and they were only playing songs from the late 1990's, how many songs…

Yep. 33, almost 34. I think it is wrong to think that pop culture has advanced uniquely rapidly in the last 20 years, compared with previous decades. A few days ago, I was in my friend’s car and on the “pop hits” station, “Thriller” by Michael Jackson came on. That song is 36 years old. When that song came out in…

Interesting. But I think that if you are going to write this article, explicitly saying that you are 40% black, and you crowdsourced facebook asking people to guess your African ancestry, you should have posted a hatless photograph.

I think that Drew’s take that 20 year old things seem older now is an uncommon take, and he might not have put much thought into it. Titanic holds up today better than 20 year old films from previous years. Seriously, The Deerhunter came out in 1978, and by 1998 it probably looked dated as fuck, what with that super…

I am surprised she is even fighting her termination. I think she should just accept it and run. Continuing to work at this school after getting exposed like this seems like it would be a pretty bad experience.

I am not sure if I understand your comment. I think that men are more willing to put up with outright in-your-face screaming than women. I do not approve of my former boss’s abrasive style, but I can understand why he doesn’t hire female bartenders or cooks because women are less willing to put up with his…

Fuck you. Teachers also work 60 hour weeks, but get paid like it is 40.