Uhm, I think Backstreet Boys fans are millennials.

How? What?

No, the “voices” that were “silenced” would belong the 10 infants who died from pertussis in California, my home state, in 2010, because they were too young to be vaccinated and herd immunity failed because people’s “personal beliefs” allowed the disease to slop onto the lives of others - oops, that’s “lives” as in…

Huh. I read it completely differently. I read it as don’t let someone bully you into doing something you aren’t sure about. If you want to say no to the D, then for gosh sakes, say no.

“Not that I really think books should be burned or banned. I just wanted it tossed in the recycling bin.”

These two sentences don’t make sense. Yes, you really do think books should be banned. You explicitly asked for a book to be banned. Whether that’s a reasonable request or not can be debated, but don’t pretend that…

Yeah I have a dissenting view on this post as well.

So I wrote to the library and asked if they wouldn’t mind burning the book in the hottest fire they could make. Not that I really think books should be burned or banned. I just wanted it tossed in the recycling bin.

I agree it’s a good idea to sometimes call out these little microbullshit instances (love that term!) - I, too, would’ve said something to the karate teacher - but a little goes a long way if you don’t want to be perceived as “that Mom.” For one thing, people tune out “that Mom” and then they don’t listen when it…

Yeah- I’m surprised how many people thought that this woman was doing so much good. I think she’s hurting the cause by coming on too strong, too early in most of these examples.

I love how I know an article is from Jezebel without me even having to check which site it’s from. Also —

I don’t like it either, and I visibly cringe and talk to my closer friends about it, BUT I do not publicly complain in an email chain about it with people I just met. This woman seems exhausting to me, even though I agree with her.

Consider the possibility that people did not respond to your concerns in the way you wanted them to because you send them long-assed missives and consequently came across as hostile and rambling.

I think we’ve reached the “selling personalized Bibles to poor Dust Bowl-affected farmers” stage of pathetic GOP donor-grifting now.

I wonder if falling a lot during his career led to CTE and depression.

props to 90-yr old Michigan’s ex-Rep. Dingell for trolling so well

WHATEVER, Mellon Collie was a lovely album

it’s an acoustic tour, so 1995 is definitely NOT back. the reason we liked these acts was the loud, electric energy. smashing pumpkins is not gonna stand up to camp-fire kumbaya renditions and her electric guitar was the only thing that made liz phair even a little interesting.

Ummm, if this had happened in a community of affluent whites Ted Cruz and Donald Trump would be sommersulting over each other to solve the problem DAY ONE.

The first thing I saw was the Star Fleet logo.