The South (and central Florida is Southern) has self-actualized racism. The racists know they are racists, and they strive to be the best. The non-racist White people are aware of modern day racism, and are usually self conscious about being perceived as racist.

The outlook for academia varies a lot by field. I just finished my PhD in a health-related field. Most academic jobs in my field are 75% research/25% teaching. The market is really robust with lots of tenure track positions. The expectation is for 12 month contracts and faculty members have to bring in 75% of their…

Same here. Also smoking indoors (in a non-smoking building) and smoking outdoors but carelessly disposing of cigarettes butts in mulched flower beds adjacent to the building.

Dear hospital employees,

This type of fire is one of my worst nightmares. I used to have serious anxiety about house fires when I was a kid. Then my undergrad university had a huge fire in a fraternity house that killed a bunch of students. I refuse to live in a multifamily building without fire suppression sprinklers. Fortunately, they are…

Do you get headaches from other forms of physical exertion? How’s your blood pressure? Could headaches from the spi,e in blood pressure/heart rate.

I “met” the Skaarskgard-Gyllenhaal clan at a museum in Denmark. I think I was the only person who recognized them, and I mustered enough restraint to leave them alone. They seem like a really nice, normal family.

You could build an entire academic career on the American tendency to equate feminine beauty with virtue.

Add in the fact that the producers effectively provided the alcohol, and it gets even dicier for the production company.

Go to eshakti.com and spend the extra $10 for custom fit. My custom fit dresses feel like I’m wearing a night shirt, but I constantly get comments when I wear them to work.

Boiled potatoes are popular in parts of the south. Really, anywhere with lots of People of Irish descent.

I’m super reactive to mosquito bites, and also grew up in North Carolina. If I have just 1-2, I’ll slap a bandaid over the bite to keep myself from scratching, especially when sleeping. Agree on the benadryl, and will add calamine lotion to the post-bite regimen. If all else fails, I pick one bite and scratch that one…

Yes - internalized racism is real. It also sounds like he’s a garden variety asshole on top of his internalized racism.

In 2017 America? Yes, failure to understand the Black struggle makes you racist. It’s not overt KKK style racism, but it demonstrates a willful ignorance or the pain, suffering, and needs of large part of the US population. 

I’m wrapping up my four-year tenure in Baltimore, and somehow managed to escape with only one jury duty summons. The city has special permission to call residents every 12 months since we have so many jury trials and it’s really hard to seat juries here (people with criminal convictions are ineligible, and people who…

As a woman who enjoys fishing, I don’t mind a fish-pic. It confirms we have at least one interest in common, and gives me hope that I’ll have one more person available to split the cost of a charter fishing trip.

One of my favorite things about Baltimore (or at least my neighborhood/peer group) - it’s very rare to hear someone ask “what do you do?” Instead, we tend to ask “what brought you to Baltimore/the neighborhood?”

Did you know there is a snack bar on the roof of St Peter’s Basilica? You can pay €7 and take the elevator, or €5 and climb the stairs. I took the stairs and saved my €2 for an ice cream after climbing 551 steps to the cupola.

I did two big overseas trips last year. In Italy, there was a laundromat across the street from our hotel, and we spent a couple of hours doing laundry on a rainy morning. We had a chance to chat with other tourists, and the rain had cleared by the time we finished. In Ireland, there was a laundry shop a few blocks…

How about teaching all children to be kind/considerate of all people?