Black people get to decide who their allies are, and I don’t they’re crazy for saying as much

I realize that was the idea of this piece, I just think that sort of pretends that black churches have no agency in their choice to work with the mayor.

I wouldn’t even say that everything went right between MLK and LBJ, but that doesn’t mean that the relationship wasn’t able to be mutually beneficial.

Working with the power structure is kind of important to changing the power structure.

Which I think is okay. Ultimately though, X found a way to reconcile himself to the existence of those groups, and when I read stuff like this, or hear the Angry Black Woman yelling at people who choose to pray, I sort of wonder if some of the real, more meta lessons from Malcolm X’s life are lost on modern day…

Haven’t black churches always participated in the civil rights movement with a distinctly different approach?

It’s both funny and not funny at the same time. Only once the comment is actually posted can you know whether it will be funny or not.

If you really didn’t think it was going to affect your thinking, wouldn’t you have pointed it out, even if you weren’t sure it was applicable? I wish that a part of the jury education process would basically say “if you lie to get on a jury, it might be found out, and then the case could be deemed a mistrial”.

Well, the article itself was much less about “forcing” you to think about anything than was implied by Jezebel’s recap of it.

I dunno, I think you cherry picked the article. Reading the whole thing, it sounds more like a “People forget these things about older parenthood when waxing rhapsodic about it, so think about them”, type of article.

In an overwhelming majority of the cases, the subjects never even noticed.

This only works as long as you are working with people who have a good grasp on how much they really know compared to you about a topic.

I think the idea is that you try this if you think you are an authority on the subject at hand and are listening very closely for anything that is incorrect or should be expounded upon further.

I thought we were discussing potentially wasteful (or not optimal) financial decisions over a long term

On the contrary, budgeting money to enjoy a consumable on a regular basis can provide tremendous marginal utility that is easily comparable to other uses of items. Budgeting money to enjoy a few beers while I relax on my porch, hang out with friends or play video games adds tremendous marginal utility to those…

I used to do this a lot. Thing is, once you do it enough, you get a pretty good feel for the numbers. The other thing is, that when you do it a lot you come to realize that all of the happiness you get out of your little habits that cost money contributes a whole lot more to your life than just the happiness you…

It’s bad enough that he treats her this horribly. It’s doubly bad that he leaves her to raise their kids alone, and triply bad that he’s basically left her to raise her step-children (the mother of whom also has had addiction problems), but then to praise the other deadbeat mom and take potshots at her?

I like a good IPA, though I would not consider myself a snob about it. I’m the same way with IPAs. I see one I haven’t tried, the label looks pretty neato, I’ll give it a whirl.

I feel like I’m the only one who ever takes advantage of the section of beers that has Chimay and others like it at the Tom Thumb I go to. There will be people wandering the wine and beer aisles, there will be people tasting the beers or wines that their taste testing people have out there, and the little corner of…

5. When in doubt, start chanting “quack. quack. Quack. Quack! QUACK!”