Sounds like their HOA fucked up, which is pretty funny because isn’t avoiding this sort of problem the reason for setting up something like an HOA?

I was in NJ, and our books said utterly nothing about the internment camps.... I only learned about them at all in my senior year, because my teacher was a Californian who was married to a Japanese-American man, and she took it upon herself to teach us this chapter of the war, outside the books.

I’m of your general vintage, and yes— realizing the depths of my ignorance about Korea and Vietnam later in life really made me mad at my [otherwise perfectly fine] public school education that left such gaps. In my early 40s I got tired of admitting I’d gotten the bulk of my knowledge of Korea from “MASH” and Vietnam…

I took it in 2000, and it was still very similar. We spent an inordinate amount of time focusing on the “midnight judges” and the various tax rebellions of the colonists and the early Americans, and had about 2 weeks to blow through WW1, WW2 and the Vietnam War before the AP exam.

Then the AP exam asked us something…

Hello, I’m in the age range of dcgirl and bisynaptic. I had many history and social study classes starting I think in something like third grade, and eventually took an excellent AP American History course taught out of an AP American History textbook (chosen by the teacher or the school district, I guess; I don’t…

Everyone knows that people don’t kill people. People laughing at people kills people.

Possibly Gwyneth Paltrow or that nut who runs the celebrity juice bar buddy of hers? “Poor people just need to learn organic urban gardening techniques! The causes of multigenerational poverty are toxins and impurities in their food, and with a couple cleanses and a colonic-meditation retreat, they could shake the GMO…

My F-I-L has always been on the conservative side, voted for Reagan and Bush Jr., but also voted for Obama because even to him it was plain that Palin is one of the stupidest human beings alive.

Re: Trump: some of the comments I have seen in political arguing online state some version of the following- “I may or may not agree or like what Trump is doing, but BOY DO I LOVE SEEING THE LIBERALS IN PAIN!” If someone makes an important decision (who to vote for) that they actually feel somewhat ambivalent about…

Good on them.

God bless you. Best. movie. evah.

They’re quasi-frats, and because of most of them were in existence long, long before Harvard admitted women, they own extremely valuable real estate that’s totally ungettable today. It would be fine if women could also have clubs with their own houses, but it’s impossible. So there’s basically no way for women to…

My favorite, overheard at a party in real life: “Nice shoes.” “Oh, thank you. I bought them at a little place in Boston when I was getting my Ph.D. at Harvard.”

Not. Enough. Stars.

Is that you, Gloria?

I can’t find the meme, and I don’t plagiarize like Ivanka “Complicit” Trump, but the meme suggested imagining all negative self talk stemming from anxiety being said in Trump’s voice. Imagine “you are so fat” coming out of Cheeto’s mouth-it’s pretty easy to tell that voice to fuck right off. I’m okay with renaming my…

Rename your Xanax “Trumpcare.”

I’m not hitting my head on my desk, I’m just engaging with my work environment.

At least it’s becoming more and more obvious why redneck trash identifies with them - they ARE redneck white trash.

I’m not pissing on your leg, its raining.