I hate when people use MLK as a sockpuppet. Whenever someone says what they think MLK would like or dislike I go full Boondocks but...

Mexico will pay for the wall. I never said Mexico would pay for the wall.

We traveled this weekend. The TSA agent that checks boarding passes was working two lines by herself - still taking time to joke and smile with each person in their native language, and make silly faces at their small children. When I got up to her, I asked her “you guys aren’t getting paid right now, are you?”

“...But for federal employees who aren’t salaried, that’s 16 days (and counting) with no back pay, whether they actually went to work or not.”

I’m sure the scissors will have something to do with said “traumatic past.”  However, I think the whole doppleganger thing (especially since they appear to be “Blacker” than the regular family appear to be) is all about the rage Black people feel on a day-to-day basis in the “colony,” in a world that makes it quite…

The secret is don’t have kids. My partner and I are in a LTR, we decided not to get married after we got engaged because we didn’t see the point (why spend that much $ on a day), and we don’t want kids. We’re both highly independent people working in creative fields and we support each other’s idependence and creative…

Everyone’s getting engaged or married and I’m just sitting over here not giving a shit while all my married friend’s relationships slowly implode over some dysfunction or another.

You know how we as black people go to scary movies and yell at the screen, “WHY YOU GO IN THERE? NO! HE THE KILLER! RUUUN! IF THAT WAS ME I’D blaseblaseblase...”

Ms. Bowers is a treasure:

It has been such a long fucking year that I thought the winter Olympics in South Korea were two years ago.

Can we talk for a quick second, about how Mattis said “improving lethality”? Even if you’re pumped that we got more killy, isn’t there a way to church that up that doesn’t make you sound like a... rabid... dog...

Oooooooooh. I get it.

I’ve been waiting for such a cogent and concise translation of Mattis’s letter all damn day and I am delighted to see you’ve knocked it out of the park yet again. 

I haven’t had that whiskey yet, but I can tell you that you’d be supporting the efforts of a few cool black women. I’d recommend getting it and printing out some of Fawn Weaver’s articles on Nearest and the previously unacknowledged role of black folks - both free and enslaved - in the liquor industry.

I’ll be buying that whiskey, wine, and some of those tees for myself and family.

This is cool and all, but way to bury the lede. There’s a new season of Luther coming?! Squee!

My partner once joked about removing the last chapter of a book I was hooked on (because I was ignoring him to read). I looked up, looked him dead in the eye, and said nothing. Stared for 30 seconds then went back to reading.

I know when I was in school,I once tried to use my phone, but the Facilities guy refused to run a phone cable down the hall. 

Second that. Adjunct professor here, and I don’t waste time calling out students who are goofing off, as long as it’s not bothering other students. The students who pay attention get the good grades, and the ones who don’t, well ... it’s a self-correcting problem.

For that matter, I’ve gone back for some classes recently and a lot of them were cell phone free per the professor. Smaller classes, not many hundred person lecture halls, but still. It wasn’t a big deal at all. If you’re feeling so ignored and disrespected, teacher, be the actual teacher and address it. 

Wow. I taught college classes for 20 years, and it never once occurred to me that I might call the campus police to handle an issue with a student. And an issue of perceived respect? Please. In large lecture rooms, sometimes you can’t prevent students in the back from whispering or even talking to each other. Phone or…