Yeah, why only one sic in the quotation? They could have been sprinkled throughout, like ants at a picnic...

Speaking as a full-time assistant professor of English, I’m reasonably certain that even a part-time gig would provide immediate, measurable improvement.

Because nothing bad ever happened under “never meant to hurt anyone” Amirite?

SHE SAID HER HAIR WAS A 4?

Ok, I do have one comment on this concept - I was the maid of honor for my best friend, and she did not want any showers because she had a ton of anxiety about all of the attention and people looking at her (and the short engagement and expensive wedding). Her friends and family members still really wanted to have a…

We can always tell. I have a bunch of cousins that are her color. My own daughter is very fair with straight hair. I’m medium brown with 4c hair. I took one look at her and went, ‘yep, white.’

Probs not tho for the exact reasons I just laid out.

I don’t know if you’re black or not, but as a reminder: I am.

Exactly. What I’m getting at is there wouldn’t be any obvious reason to vet her racial background. There’s nothing precluding a white person from heading an NAACP chapter, so why lie? And if there’s no reason to lie, why investigate her race? I mean, obviously, they have reason to look in the future, but it would have…

The problem is not that she’s a white person leading an NAACP chapter. The problem is that she’s a white person who seemingly lied about being black and then headed an NAACP chapter.

Would YOU wanna be the person who questioned the racial credentials of the new president of your NAACP chapter? How bad would you look if you were wrong? I think there was plenty of talk but no one wanted to be that person who asked her if she was really black.

I was born / partially raised in Plano and my backyard was just a sea of pecans and I had NO IDEA how lucky I was. I just noshed them down blankly like a grazing deer and thought “this is what life is like everywhere I bet.”

Okay, I grew up eating Skippy Super Chunk, but I finally got down with the natural peanut butter, and I am never going back. Here’s the trick- you mix it when you bring it home, then stick it in the fridge. Then it doesn’t separate. Don’t buy the salt free kind. We are not on this earth to suffer.

Ah, how soon we forget. I read that there was a study that said eating chocolate could help you lose weight, too. Nuts are great, but I’ll have to read more information directly from the study before I’m going to jump in and believe any bit of nutrition news that comes out any more. Small sample sizes, small…

YOU HAVE BEEN GIVEN A GREAT BOUNTY

No one gets into my stash of stachios. I’d cut off their...fingers.

Tattoo artists are not in the service industry. I (a bartender and server) am in the service industry. Tattoo artists are artists. It’s right there in the title.

And like (m)any lucky artists They work as individuals on commission to create artwork. Which is why some have years long wait lists and can choose to work…

Getting a tattoo when you’re not like, part of the subculture of tattoos, can be a weird, kind of frustrating experience (I say this as someone who has a number of non-visible tattoos, but who is a very white-collar, corporate button-up type). There’s definitely a push and pull between the client and artist (it’s…