The most reasonable explanation I can come up with is that when these kids go dance at other companies that are not Afrocentric, there will be different expectations, like that their hair not be braided. I can see wanting to prepare kids for that reality. At the same time, though, there’s probably a better place and…

You joke, but it’s astonishing to me the number of people, women included, who truly believe that the most important thing about a woman is that she be physically attractive. SMDH

“Seriously, honey, it’s no big deal. I’m just a touchy guy, it’s not like it means anything. It’s like how Cheryl thinks it’s hilarious when I call her sweet cheeks and give her a hug at the staff Christmas party. Everybody thinks it’s a riot. If this reporter didn’t have such a stick up her tight ass, she’d think it…

Or it’s the kind of thing some asshole producer would give as a note. “Listen, we’ve got Olivia Wilde playing the reporter and John Hamm playing the FBI agent. Obviously we need to at least imply at some point that they have sex so that the audience can think about how sexy that would be so, like, I don’t know, how…

I feel like they’ll wind up being like Jane Fonda videos. Like, “Hey, remember when people bought those really expensive stationary bikes where you also had to pay a monthly fee and there were like videos you could watch while you did them and stuff? That was really silly, wasn’t it.”

The YMCA near my house--which has spin classes and also yoga classes and some kind of dance class as well as weights and trainers and babysitting for my kids while I work out—is $45 per month. Why on earth would I spend $2000 + basically the same amount of money per month to have a stationary bike taking up space in…

I mean, the person you meet at a bar or in a softball league or at a church group might be a sex offender, too. And given how unhelpful the sex offender registries are (I don’t give a shit about the guy who was 18 and had a 14 year old girlfriend. I give a shit about the guy who was 55 and had a 14 year old…

Oh, no doubt. And a lot of the money problems of rich people are 100% of their own making. If you tell someone at the bottom of the income ladder that they “just need to cut back” in order to have enough money for food and rent, they’re going to (reasonably) be like, “Cut back what?” But a lot of rich people who are…

IDK. I used to have a job that brought me into contact with a lot of people who made a lot of money, and a shocking number of them were almost living paycheck to paycheck. Some were compulsive shoppers. Some lived to play the generous friend and seemed to be constantly dropping $50,000 to take their friends on a crazy…

Okay, Aunt Becky.

Seriously. That first paragraph was astonishing. I know it’s rough out there guys, but oh, boy, there have got to be better ways to earn $50.

I was on a treadmill in front of the ESPN TV at the gym this morning and watching as the talking heads all basically carried water for the NFL re: Kaepernick made me so angry I almost cut my workout short. I’m not really surprised—corporations gonna stick together—but all these assholes were basically on there blaming…

His older brother’s name is Rhyan, so I think his parents were just ahead of the curve. (There was a kind of fascinating article in the WaPo this morning about the family)

What the actual fuck?! Why would you want to do this to a person? Why does anyone think, “Hey, want to be a part of our stupid club? Then you gotta let me do weird things to your genitals and then beat you up. Sound cool? Cool.” And why would anyone want to be a part of any club whose membership requires that? 

Wait, wait, wait--an ectopic pregnancy is never viable and can be fatal to the mother. Was she saying they wouldn’t have terminated the pregnancy? Because that’s a.) a possibility because we live in the stupidest timeline and b.) making me see about ten shades of red right now.

He sounds like every 60-something year old white guy. They all seem to think it’s the height of cleverness to say that they’re not allowed to have an opinion. Have all the opinions you want, my guy, but realize that other people also get to say, “You’re wrong.” 

Having grown up kind of adjacent to an Evangelical community that was OBSESSED with girls and virginity (my cousins were actively raised in it and my own family kind of drifted in and out), what I can tell you is that TI is probably giving his daughter A LOT of future issues around sex and intimacy. If she spends the…

I mean, you can feel your feelings, man, but there are so much pressure on women to conform to certain standards and ideals, and that’s doubly true for women of color. Yeah, it would be great if women decided to wear their hair in the style in which it grows out of their heads, and if women accepted their bodies as…

There is also absolutely nothing wrong with a nose that’s been broken once or four times.

At the gym, I always try to snag the treadmill in front of NESN because they spend so much time talking to hockey players and showing clips of hockey games. Watching Patrice Bergeron is way more entertaining than being stuck in front of MSNBC or Fox News.