Perhaps it is my social circle, yes. I’m deinitely aware that, like myself, the majority of the people I interacted with growing up were middle to upper middle class, and as snacktastic mentioned earlier a lot of this has to do with class. I went to a public high school in Seattle, which is still around and to my…

Oh I’m best friends with one of your kind! In Baton Rouge she’s such a freak, in Seattle no one even notcies her!

I would love to have ya! I mostly cry about how gentrified Seattle is becoming because of tech-holes, but the truth is I do love my city, and we’ve attracted a really ecclectic, artsy group of folk from all over the world.

Seattle!! Downtown Spirist delivers in the Belltown and Queen Anne neighborhoods!! Woohoo!!

Jurassic is correct! Shaking with ice chills the liquid so it doesn’t melt any of the ice as your pour it into the glass, thus compromising the drink.

I did see that comment, I asked about the region your mom was from because I wonder how much if it is informed by that too. Certainly the most notable use of honorifics being withheld as an attempt to demean a person’s status has been with the president. When I first noticed GOPers calling him by name only I had to go…

Bora Aksu is perfection. Oh my God I want ALL of those lace dresses. They look like crocheted dresses from Heaven!

You win for the day.

This is interesting, and I wonder too how much it’s informed by the region your mother grew up in. I feel like west coasters, even older generations, generally moved westward and shurgged these sorts of conventions, and also the melting of certain culures changed this as well. For example, I grew up with a lot of…

Wouldn’t you think that referring to everyone simply by the first name would denote an equal respect of power for the people interacting? I’m from the PNW, and honorifics are just not used here. None of the teaching staff at the college I went to used titles at all, even in grade school teachers were simply referred…

As a Quaker I approve this message! And just generally "yes!"

Truth. This is why when I’m not working with refugees and volunteering with people experiencing homelesness I smoke pot and drink...a lot. People can suck, and I’d prefer thinking of them fondly whilst watching Netflix on repeat and emptying bottles of wine.

I volunteer at an emergency shelter for women and children. A $1500 donation would go a LONG way for food there. The monetary piece is difficult to stomach, especially when put in context of how many people struggle on the regular to provide healthy food options for themselves and their families. Perhaps what is also…

New Jersey? Oh yeah definitely white privilege.

Important question though, are you from a western state? I have never ever in my life benefited from white privilege, however, I grew up in Seattle, so the few times bike cops caught us smoking in alleys as a kid it was pretty similar: take our grinder, take our pot, laugh and say “not in pioneer square bozos!”

Not bad, just meant to soothe and not be too edgy or offend any body’s sensibilities or something. You’ll love it when you give it a listen.

Democracy Now! is where it’s at for A+ journalism. Juan Gonzalez and Amy Goodman are pros. NPR is like warm milk in comparison.

Port Townsend is RAD! I used to play hide and go seek in the dark at old Fort Warden when I was a kid.

Ha! These assholes are in Port Townsend! Man, when I was growing up PT was just an old working man’s town. It was filled with paper mills, so mostly just factory folk. Then Californians invaded and ran up the property values. Now tech-holes have run the property values up even more.

Bahaha! YUS! The 00's.