Fist RAISED for this. Thank you.

Yes, the Spanish gradually rejected slavery of indigeneous peoples. They actively promoted the enslavement of Africans in their stead. I mean, it was literally members of the freaking Catholic clergy saying that the original inhabitants of the islands were fundamentally unsuited to slavery (too gentle and sweet), but…

That voice-over was terrible, but I like the premise. Here’s hoping the show is as enjoyable as some of the scenes in the trailer.

Hopefully some Bayer aspirin, too, for the headaches induced by this much idiocy.

“Consulted” should be “advised”, yes?

There was nothing oblique about that claim as quoted here. It was quite pointed and baldly direct.

Ugh. This reminds me of junior high in Florida, when I was the only black kid in Speech and Drama class, and we went to the state forensic championships. We had kids from other schools on the bus with us as we headed to Orlando, one of whom was an obviously (even to a 14-year-old me) gay young black guy. He was the…

Kamala Harris currently kicking all the butt, but she’s wrong about one thing: we shouldn’t be singing The Star-Spangled Banner. It’s a terrible song, and racist to boot. My Country ‘Tis of Thee is better (even if the melody is just yoinked from God Save The Queen), and even has abolitionist verses from the 1840s.

Fake news. I mean, really: this gargantuan attention suck gets married to his practically-unicorn-like-in-his-invisibility black boyfriend, and doesn’t have so much as a single loyal toady there to gush about it on social media, or even a professional photographer/videographer to capture his precious moment? I’m gonna…

I lived there for 22 years. I’m in agreement with you, mostly. My perspective as a WOC who arrived there in the early nineties tends to color my general perception, definitely, as I got to deal with the harassment, disdain, and sometimes virulent hatred dished out by average citizens and the Neo-Nazis who were quite a…

I need to start using this at work, as I feel I could certainly do with more professionalism. I am so gettin’ that next promotion!

I was able do this with my cat, many years ago. It was great (and adorable)!

A dear friend and colleague of mine had a old, still-spry, very sweet dog who was allergic to (wait for it) dog food. This was back in the 80s, so there weren’t a bunch of alternatives to Dog Chow and Co. The only thing the dog could eat (vet prescribed) was a mixture of plain boiled chicken and rice. I found it…

Burn fan gear for that D

The whole BBC thing actually has much older roots, and is much more damaging. The short version: the ancient Greeks believed that the bigger your penis, the more foolish, ugly, lustful, and animalistic you were. Machismo/masculinity and intellectual prowess stood in negative correlation to penis size. Those ideas,…

I spent a few months with someone who was renting out a room in her house on AirBnB. She initially said she wouldn’t be renting out the basement room next to mine while I was there, then suddenly it was, “Oh, by the way, I have a rental in two days.” She was in no way hurting financially; she just liked having extra…

First thing I thought of, as well.

Right? This is exactly the sort of thing I’ve come to expect from my birthplace.

“I like generals who didn’t serve.”

I’m going with NINCOMPOTUS.