Look! http://cornellsun.com/2017/09/20/arrested-cornell-student-apologizes-for-unacceptable-and-inappropriate-language/ He apologized. So, it’s all fine now.

For funsies, try the literacy tests here https://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/voting_literacy.html and here http://www.openculture.com/2014/07/literacy-test-louisiana-used-to-suppress-the-black-vote.html

“Spirit of Freedom,” also known as the African American Civil War Memorial in Washington, DC. Not on the National Mall proper, but a national memorial nonetheless. (It’s now maintained by the National Park Service after being built with private funds.) The sculpture features a black family on one side, and USCT troops…

I live a few blocks off of this road. Help us out! I’d like to see it named for Samuel Tucker, who was an Alexandria lawyer who led one of the first-ever sit-ins (in 1939) to integrate the local public library.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Wilbert_Tucker

I don’t really see how any convertible story could surpass the death of Isadora Duncan, an internationally known dancer who famously died when the scarf she was wearing got tangled in the rear hubcap of the car she was riding in, pulling her from the vehicle and breaking her neck. This happened in Nice in 1927, making…

EXACTLY. Because the only position for women in the movement is prone.

I read store-bought Mother’s Day cards with fascination. The idea that my mom A) is my best friend; B) is my role model; C) “is always there for me”; D) loves me unconditionally is HI-LARIOUS. So, I make my own cards for her, and sometimes they come from my dog.

And I’ll add, nothing better establishes your ignorance and especially that of your readers, than that you had to open this piece with the phrase “singer-songwriter Bob Dylan.” It reminds me of when Avril Levigne mispronounced David Bowie’s name. Oops, sorry, I mean “singer-songwriter David Bowie.”

Yes, plus he’s Bob Fucking Dylan. He gets to do what he wants. I’m fascinated that people who haven’t written a thank-you note in their entire lives are now viciously Emily Post-ing Dylan, probably to conceal the fact of their own ignorance about his significance. But I’m sure they know all the words to a Selena…

He wrote a very gracious acceptance speech, which you can read here: https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2016/dylan-speech_en.html. But he declined to attend the event, and that’s ok, because he’s an old man, he’s a musician who is not especially interested in accolades, plus, oh that’s right,…

Please do your homework. Please. That map does not depict “how millennials voted.”