Did he claim to be black specifically? It doesn’t appear so based on the fake photo on his fake twitter account.

This really isn’t that shocking. Certainly less shocking than academics straight up claiming to their colleagues, students, and readership that they are of a different ethnicity. I bet many people on reddit or quora claim to be something else because they believe it gives them more credibility. I suppose they just get…

I am not surprised that an academic in the social sciences would lie about his or her class and upbringing. Claiming a hardscrabble background can give someone more moral authority if that person is professing expertise about sociology in the US. Also, it is probably the easiest to get away with. If you falsely claim…

Haha.  Perhaps the 90210 cast can now say in their defense, “We didn’t want you to make eye contact, but it isn’t because we are jackasses.  It is because we were ashamed of what we were doing!”  

Yeah, 90210 wrapped up in the spring of 2000, with Dark Angel debuting later that year.  But, in the last 20 years, it is entirely possible that Alba has worked with a former 90210 actor.  Would that be awkward?  

With extras, it sound really crappy, but I can sort of understand it.

It always seemed to me that if a person is smart and driven enough to become a doctor, he or she could make the same salary doing something else for a lot less effort.

I am not in the medical field at all.  But if I had to pick, I would think that doctors would be more likely to be assholes to attendees than patients.  

When I was bartending and was expected to “invent” cocktails, I would just look up fancy bars and restaurants in other cities and ripoff their cocktails. 

You’re probably right, and if the mother is a lawyer, this kid probably has a lot of advantages. However, if this particular mother says, “Forget about school this year,” then she either has to A) find other ways to occupy the kid, or B) just have the kid entertain herself.

That would take away so much legitmacy of the Supreme Court.  Also, people accuse Trump of thinking he can do whatever he wants.  If Democrats pack the court, they will be doing just that.  Lastly, the next time the Republicans are in power, why wouldn’t they just add more justices, and the cycle never ends.  

Movies seem to portray an intense rivalry between police officers and firefighters.  Do you have any insight into how true that is?  If such a rivalry does exist, it might come from or at least be exacerbated by movies.

It seems to me that there are way more white women who major in African American Studies and show other interest in black people.

I wonder if he really needs an expensive lawyer.

“but I think that hastily quarantining on a ranch in Oklahoma and then also buying a mansion in Encino with someone is not quite the move to be making when the world at large is experiencing a pandemic!”

It seems he was severely enabled.

“he will serve maybe a few years if that, then be out and much like Zimmerman is now, never want for anything in the rest of his murderous life.”

When Trump was elected, I watched a youtube video “all of the Donald Trump cameos,” and multiple 1990s tv shows predicted a political career for him. 

If a movie fails on every single criteria, what is to stop a film’s producers from sending a “for your consideration” note with “All of us are bisexual”?

I know right? I was 8 at the time. Now I am going through some major second hand embarrassment 28 years later.