Hey, just so everyone is aware: If Northam resigns, we get Justin Fairfax as governor.

So you are telling me that we could possibly get rid of an old-school conservative Democrat and replace him with Justin Fairfax, a man who just told the Confederate apologists to go fuck themselves?

This is why yearbook staff diversity matters because it would have been the work of that lone black yearbook staffer to look at the photo and state simply, “Sorry, Chief. This ain’t it.”

Just one question:

... and take your star!

My favorite thing about this scene is that no one told Cleavon Little about the line change. That is his real laughter at hearing the line for the first time.

We can only hope.

This could be the best possible use of the racist Mann Act, which was originally designed to keep white girls away from black men. It was passed in 1910 as the “White Slave Traffic Act.”

“These are not made up numbers.”

First,

Oh, absolutely, the change needs to come from the top down! That’s a good example of “be careful who you vote for!” The politicians like to blame the public employees unions whenever it suits their needs. My wife’s family is large and very Irish from the Albany/Troy, NY area, and her grandfather was a firefighter…

That’s OK, I didn’t ever want to have sex again anyway...

So, are you going for “black people are innately violent,” or are you willing to accept that there are a crap-load of other socioeconomic factors going on? Because one means that you have an understanding the history of race, class and economics, and the other makes you racist.

There is a lot to unpack here, so I am just going to jump right in. You and CRB78 should get together for a beer, you seem to share a lot of the same opinions.

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You will get no argument from me about the higher ranks being at fault more than they admit, I do have some police in my family, and it is almost never the person who instituted the faulty policy who takes the fall.

“Blazing Saddles,” a Mel Brooks movie from 1974. It dismantles the logic of racism by calling it out repeatedly and mocking the shit out of it. Do yourself a favor and watch when you have the time. It uses racial epithets A LOT, so I wouldn’t watch around little kids. 

Web design?

You are right, it is not their job to spin PR, but they do.