There’s the memorial to Emmet Till, but tragically racist assholes deface it on a regular basis, which makes your point even more strongly. 

No, they don’t because they are so common and rarely cancerous.

Good point. I was more thinking along the ego-maniac line.

I tend to agree with you. China has very little reason to get involved beyond diplomacy.

Two such men, in fact.

It’s so utterly perfect for the right that my initial reaction was that it’s a plant. But I don’t want to be lumped in with the false flaggers.

I’m so sorry that happened to you. And I agree with what you’re saying. Lone children can be extremely intimidated by adults. She’d probably been conditioned (as most of us were) to be obedient and polite to adults to the point of deferring to their wants and needs. The reason why the airline is culpable in this is…

What happened to that little girl is awful, but I guarantee there would have been no coverage (and quite probably no action) if the boys had, for example, been Canadian immigrants.

I am in no way suggesting or condoning this, but the only act of violence that might actually make a difference is if a group of black, Muslim avowed terrorists stormed a national NRA convention and killed all the members there, preferably live on TV. Then, maybe, maybe after much talk and debate, Congress would…

Knew I was forgetting one.

As a rural Southern transplant now living in suburban Pennsylvania, I am no expert but I can offer some small insight. As some other folks have pointed out, everything besides the big city is often described pejoratively as “Pennsyltucky” or “Alabama in the Middle.” I can also attest that even in the small cities…

How great to know. I loved this book in high school and, despite them being so very different, the Frankenstein movies are my favorite of the Universal classic horror genre. Also, Young Frankenstein is one of my very favorite movies.

It is suddenly completely clear. This is the party Donald Trump should be representing: The Know Nothings!

I will be even more glad if the new Star Trek series in the works includes an openly gay character on the bridge crew. That show has always been about promoting diversity so the exclusion of an openly gay character has been pretty glaring. (I have always suspected that was because Roddenbury wouldn’t have been on…

If they could accomplish this without the need for IVF, that would really be something! Still, progress is progress.

Firstly, I get a bit annoyed when this movie is periodically trotted out as a reason to shame us all when it was clearly never meant to be taken at face value and was intended, as you state, to be cultural shorthand. The irony is that the basic premise was also shorthanded, presumably to retain the humor rather than…

I think the mentions of William, besides the fact that a lot of viewers would like that resolved, is that the next mini-season will focus on finding William in order to harvest the stem cells that will save Mulder. Personally, however, I’d like to think William is already on that ship that closed the show. I always…

They had me up until “burned in Salem.”

To be fair I never thought that Scully was about to get raped in Small Potatoes. I thought that fake Mulder was about to get shut down or possibly injured. Granted I may be confusing this with the extremely similar episode where Mulder gets body swapped with the guy from Area 51. But, yeah, those episodes were a bit…

I agree with all of these points except for Maz. I liked her a lot, though that might be because I immediately viewed her with my own interpretation. Your description of her as a combo of Yoda and Lando is good because I view her as a spiritual mentor to the grey characters as opposed to the Jedi training that Luke…