I’m still continually impressed that the Rio Olympics are a thing that is still happening. Despite the complete and utter unpreparedness of Rio which includes not just a lack of facilties but a failure to clean up polluted areas the atheletes will be forced to compete in. Added to the high crime rates of Rio and the…

Ryan Lochte looks like his family calls him "Trip" and he's been to three colleges only to limp out with a BA and a 2.21 GPA but still gets a job at his dad's firm.

I know it’s not a particularly “internet” response, but my reaction is that this is all fine and unworthy of outrage. Sure, changing the title “Master” is kind of a dumb capitulation to historical ignorance, but if it makes some people happy it’s not a hill worth dying on ... same thing should be true about Franklin.

Yea, I mean it’s Yale. And $250 million. He named the building. Quelle surprise.

I’m honestly a little surprised that Yale’s ego would allow it to name something after someone so closely associated with another Ivy League school.

He changed his attitude on slavery later in life and became a passionate abolitionist though.

The moves all seem like attempts to progress without completely breaking the school’s traditions.

Maybe one day society will mature to the point where we can look at the positive and the negative of individuals without having to throw out the entirety of a person’s legacy for one failure on their record. People are flawed. There are no heros. If you dig deep enough into ANYONE, you can find grounds to reject them.

Whoever the asshole is who first took the term “detox” out of a medical setting and plastered it on an over the counter product like this deserves to be banished from society.

His pro column is still vastly larger than his con.

So is the solution to erase dead white men from history?

I agree with you, in that she's playing those that can't see through this shtick. Most of society is stupid.

I saw it with my then-infant. A local theater would run a morning showing of a latest release specifically for parents with newborns, and it was great. They even played it at a lower volume. I mean the movie was terrible, but it was great.

It's actually a little bit amazing that a person can be so vile that no one likes him. Even Donald Trump has friends, Ted Cruz has none

I’m pretty sure Beyonce is playing us all like the fiddles that we are.

all of my best feuds are with dead people

3 Transfemales and over 50 gay or lesbian people I knew when I used to live there. The Trans women didn’t come out unless they knew you.

This is so fucking mean.

I said on another post that activists might want to consider organizing campaigns of conspicuous compliance with these laws. I imagine public opinion will turn when people who are too stupid to realize what these laws mandate actually see it in action.

I’m so glad I live in SF, because I am a very very butch woman, and I am constantly worried that “concerned citizens” might see me in a ladies room and flip out on my ass. I think I can cross off the entirety of the deep south off of any future travel itineraries.