My mother planted a nicotiana vine outside her home office window and trained it up the trellis. The squirrels didn’t pay much attention to it until it bloomed these beautiful deep purple trumpet shaped flowers. Then they went nuts, stripped the vines of all but the buds in a matter of days.
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Not Fear? Or Disgust?
What’s remarkable is how he trotted out mindless GOP talking points as if Trump hasn’t explicitly contradicted and even mocked those talking points. It’s like Pence is living in a fantasy world in which 1) Trump is sane and 2) recording devices haven’t been invented, so we’re incapable of definitively proving what…
This is a brilliant idea! Maybe I can be Anger.
I am seriously considering dressing as Sadness for my “political-themed” Halloween.
You can keep dismissing people who disagree. It doesn’t make your comment any less silly.
It does if you’re a closet racist who has to get to work discrediting that black man for having an opinion.
Another blow to Trump in the critical basket demographic.
-Joseph Goebbels
I gave this a star, but I sure wasn’t happy about it.
generally demonstrating tremendous stamina.
My problem with the “only if the story calls for it” argument is that the same is never applied to white characters. A lot of stories don’t call for white characters to be white. Jason Bourne, Katniss Everdeen, Ethan Hunt, Ace Ventura, John McClane, Ellen Ripley, Sarah Connor - none of these characters needed to be…
But squeegeeing diversity for the sake of diversity in rarely improves a story. Make that never improves a story.
I grew up watching blaxploitation movies, right? And I said, that’s great. I didn’t go like, OK, there should be more white people in these movies.”
What an idiot. That blaxploitation comment sounds exactly like when white people say “Well there’s no white television shows or actors on BET or Telemundo!!” Are you really that dense?