I hate to be pedantic, but as an American Indian, I despise the term “indigenous person.” I am a Mescalero Apache, raised on the reservation, and I look like what central casting would send over if a director needed an “indian.” Most American Indians prefer to be identified primarily by their tribe, but recognize that…

Pretty much all American holidays are an excuse to eat unhealthy food, get drunk and watch sports.

Our area — with a strong Italian population — will not be converting to Indigenous Day any time soon. But we still had a gently subversive conversation with our 1st grader on the subject and planted the seed of doubt. (“It would be like if some strangers walked in and told us they just discovered our house and liked…

Trust me, if I could abandon Christmas entirely I would feel zero regrets.

Meanwhile, I have prepared this for my Facebook feed on the last Thursday of the month, because I am a Downer of Deborah-style proportions.

Aw. Poor white people. :(

What do you think the reason for this response is?

Yes.

Congratulations to new House Speaker A Gestating Fetus

I mean, you can raise your child to know that women are people but in today’s society every other person outside of your home will remind him that in fact we are not. With their actions, with their laws, with their assumptions, with their words.

OH MY GOD. THAT IS TERRIBLE.

I just know it’s going to happen, it always happens... social conservatives are going to claim that pedophile ‘turned’ Lance Bass gay as part of the ‘gay agenda.’

I wish I was making this up. I can’t even...

i wish Rock Moranis would have at least 5 seconds cameo

On one hand, women’s bodies have been scrutinized, commoditized, and violated in favor of an entitled public view for years, so I shouldn’t feel bad when it happens to a man. On the other hand, he was clearly on a private resort and just had his privacy wildly violated.

Do you do bar mitzvahs?

Deckle edges. That’s a whole new world of pain.

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