Thank you. I’m so fucking tired of “progressive” concern trolls, especially those who wring their hands over Southern politics despite never stepping foot in the South.

I’m an academic, in a field where I sometimes do need to refer to specific racial slurs in a purely academic manner. Even then, I choke on the word and can’t say it out loud.

Just make sure you use water permeable paving materials. A concrete yard may not use water, giant slabs of concrete cause problems with run off and flash flooding.

I lived in Raleigh as a teenager. For our senior prank, we stole the Ronald McDonald statue from the restaurant down the street and placed in of the roof of the building. We took it down and returned it at lunch time the same day.

The kids at Wakefield definitely aren’t economically anxious, nor are their parents. It’s a suburban school serving a very wealthy community.

The microwave is the way to go for weekday breakfasts. I like to cook a full pound of bacon in the oven on Sunday, then wrap in a layer of paper towels and store in the fridge. For weekday breakfasts, just pull out a few strips of bacon, nuke for 30 seconds, and you’re good to go.

I love my electric kettle - it makes my morning routine much more efficient. I fill it with water every night when I’m cleaning up the kitchen. I use loose leaf tea, so I’ll go ahead and measure the leaves and set up my teapot for the next morning as well. My kettle is programmable, so I’ve set it to heat water to the…

Wow. That’s pretty awful. Racial issues aside, it’s incredibly disturbing for an art museum to promote a set of gallows as a playground.

One of the really cool things about art is that you, as an individual, don’t get to categorically deem another person’s work to be art or not.

Or perhaps include Black people in school leadership? And not as the token Black parent on the PTA. Hire Black principals and promote Black teachers. Examine discriminatory practices in teacher training programs and hiring practices.

Baltimore isn’t the capital of Maryland. And we have no money, so it seems fair to sell the statues. Would be great to sell them for scrap metal, but we would probably get more money at auction.

By 6th grade, I already understood and supported single payer universal healthcare. I also believed education at public universities should be tuition-free through grad school.

I looked up the breakfast menu at the Four Seasons Toronto - the only pancakes on the menu are described as lemon ricotta hot cakes.

I just looked up the breakfast menu at Four Season Toronto. The main restaurant is a branch of Cafe Boulud. The only pancake-like thing on the menu is lemon ricotta hot cakes.  

This is brilliant. I will have to find an O’reilley alternative and give it a try.

Just want to piggy back on this - local, single family events make up the majority of the disaster work by the American Red Cross. I used to volunteer as a case worker - I never worked on a major disaster. The biggest was an apartment fire with 10 families displaced. I responded to 2-3 house fires per week during a…

For whatever reason, they did photos with the wives and the gay guy. There are several female leaders in NATO, but their husbands weren’t included... maybe there is another groups photo somewhere with Angela Merkel and Theresa May’s husbands.

Some states will increase. Most will not because they don’t have the resources to do it.

It’s sweet that you think you will get to keep your Medicaid coverage. The Republicans are cutting it to bits - first by making it a block grant instead of an entitlement. States will not have enough money to fund everyone in need, and some people will lose coverage.

Yes, $4,000 in out-of-pocket costs is unusual for a healthy young adult with insurance (no counting premiums). I’m in my 30's. I have PCOS and ridiculous allergies, but otherwise have not major health problems. I don’t think I’ve ever spent more than $300/year in co-pays for office visits and prescriptions, combined.…