I recently read a long article in the New Yorker about CPS that was very similar to this one. The issue of birth control is never mentioned anywhere, but to me it’s the elephant in the room. I know people with 1 kid who are struggling; how much harder must it be to try to raise 4 while dealing with domestic violence?…

I was in a play when a kid peed onstage—he apparently thought it would be worse to exit than to pee in front of everyone, since he was supposed to be in the scene. I’m just telling you this so you know you’re not alone (although I wouldn’t be surprised if you’ve collected a group of similar stories by now). He was…

If you want to see a (imo) really cool 1960's children’s book by a white male author that does star a black protagonist, here’s this one:

“Christian” should be in quotes. I think they’d be fine with getting rid of the likes of Jimmy Carter.

Yeah, I was thinking probably more women’s films didn’t make it into the festival because they’re privileging the films that have a traditional male POV.

Was the NYTimes throwing shade when they wrote, “President Trump traveled to storm-brushed Corpus Christi”?

Thank you—I donated as a direct result of your post.

The Lutheran church I went to as a kid taught the same thing, but I think some evangelical denominations believe God’s personal fingers are doing everything, including deciding whether you make the cheerleading squad. (I can’t find anything official that says this; it’s just the impression I get from running across…

I went to a San Francisco meeting about safety tactics that was led by some protest veterans. I found out some people have very extreme views about working with the police: they don’t want their picture taken because they don’t want to be identified and called by police even as a witness. I think if you’re going to…

Antifa hasn’t only “risked their bodies in other that other protesters are safe.” They have deliberately provoked fights. Here’s a video taken by a Berkeley local during the Milo Yianarcissist protest that shows an antifa member sneaking up from behind to clock someone with a bike lock.

I was at the protest, and I think emphasizing the small black bloc contingent is misleading. The event was mostly peaceful. Here’s the local coverage: http://www.berkeleyside.com/2017/08/27/downtown-berkeley-stage-set-day-demonstrations/

My fear, as a journalist and person of color, is that newsrooms that already skew white will become even less diverse as editors shift resources to cover the white supremacy movement as its own specific beat

I think LW is worried that sister secretly looked down on her during the time she was poorer.

The first ones I thought of are the Lincoln Memorial (which has on the wall a quote in which Lincoln specifically called out slavery as the main cause of the Civil War), the MLK memorial, the FDR memorial, all in DC. The Capitol Rotunda also has a statue to suffragists. Unfortunately there’s a racist component there,…

I say remove the assholes, leave the horses.

Was just reading Breitbart comments...

I was reading a circa-1930s book, I think by John Dos Passos, and there was a character who complained that he didn’t do well in college because he was unfairly pitted against “Jew grinds.” Other than the stereotype moving to Asians, the scenario is exactly the same: white man blames his own failure on a minority.

“...no Texan is ever required to pay for a procedure that ends the life of an unborn child,” Abbott said...

The same should go for Congressional committees.

Berkely won’t let [Richard Dawkins] speak there but Milo Yiannopolous can come in