That’s what I needed! A visionary. 

When your house was plumbed in the late 1800s, pulling plumbing across 4 floors into weird spots, unless you really go a gut renovation, is basically not possible. You can’t just “add a bath”. This was explained to me very patiently by my Boston contractor. 

Dating in DC under Clinton/Bush/Obama/Trump all need their own threads. It’s a totally different game.

Dating in DC when I was fresh outta law school and clerking was like trying to date the characters of Animal House (or Animal Farm? Or both?). Don’t miss at all.

LOL. Not per your user name and also per temperature trends. LA is getting hotter, faster, as is all of California. 

You’re getting this wrong. They’re not harmless and funny — they’re practical. Women need a traumatic brain injury TO SEE CLEARLY. Without our brain hitting our skulls at max speeds and reeling from the aftershocks, we remain irrational. 

Do you find it personally embarrassing to have to make this distinction as a way to make slavery seem a little more... reasonable? Like a consulting contract? 

Thank you for the callout, that’s an important point that I need to remember. 

She lectured her on anti-semitism, not about bigotry. It’s perfectly possible for a Muslim WoC to not have a full grasp of what anti-semitic language looks and sounds like, and as such, she should listen to people’s lived experiences. I don’t believe for a second that Ilhan Omar is antisemitic, FWIW. 

I think that any American talking about an Apartheid state without first fixing their own Apartheid state is a massive hypocrite. Native and indigenous Americans living in reservations, having treaties disrespected, land and water disrespected, and being constantly crippled by US government whims, are living in an…

Serena AND Beyonce. For as much as Democratic politicians get on the “thank black women” train, they have never learned to actually love black women. 

Nope. You don’t get to do that. How people are judged for similar behavior has SO much to do with race, especially black women. 

Did I read somewhere that the average teacher spends almost $2000 of their own money to fund their classroom with basics? 

I think it’s silly, elitist, and impractical to define who is and isn’t a journalist the way you are. If she is doing journalism, she is a journalist. 

Kamala Harris lives in the most incredible twilight zone of “angry shrill black woman” BUT ALSO “not black enough”. I don’t know how black women do it when we police every single facet of their existence. 

Yeah, that’s not how you... get people booked on your morning show. He didn’t come there to be grilled, he came as part of a pre-agreed upon redemption tour. 

Two of three teachers who have replied to this post thus far talk about getting out of teaching and how the intense pressures we put on teachers to be teachers, mental health experts, parents, snack providers, school supplies provider, and now security detail led them to leave. Two of whom I’m going to assume are…

People like this also get the “genius” benefit of the doubt, like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk. They get a pass because there is important work being done, or big problems being solved. To some extent, I can see a reclusive genius with no social skills getting a pass on that stuff. But that’s like, 0.0001%. Most of the…

God, I hope we never get to a place where humiliating your employees and throwing things at them is considered “tough”. And you’re right about her whiteness actually shielding her from worse consequences. If this had been Obama’s reputation, or a black female candidate, it would have ruined them. 

What a dumb fucking embarrassing-ass take. Nick Cannon in “white face” does nothing to demean me as a white person, does nothing to perpetuate racist tropes, does nothing to encourage “racism” against me as a white person, doesn’t humiliate me as a white person by making my features cartoonish or comical or grotesque.…