Detroit is a 100% separate issue. It's about who foots the bill for water and city resources rather than availability and scarcity.

It's just your personal feelings on a hot or cold scale, the same metric used to judge pop albums or celebrities new haircuts.

I find it interesting that black people didn't rate Muslims higher. We still rated them the highest between white and Hispanic groups, but not as high as I would've thought. Unsurprising that we're cool with Jews, though.

Why do people still rock their high school hair cuts, or try to fit into jeans they bought before they had kids? Thems the glory days. Paris's glory days were in the era of velour track suits with rhinestones, trucker hats, and ugg boots.

Poor Lark. She always sounds like she knows what she's saying, and if you pay attention there is a sort of pattern of logic to what's coming out, but it's like her brain can't form concise phrasing, so she makes longer statements with loose connections and twists to make her point. It's like she's still in there, but…

This applies to traditional art as well. It's tainted by the fact that shock factor has replaced any conceptual thought processes and formal talent because stunt and shock brings press, that nepotism and connections are the fastest pathway to recognition, that it's a small group of people who decide what is art and…

That's limiting fashion down to purely commercial. Depending on the designer, pieces are never mass produced, and entire collections consist of 1 or 2 sizes made for NYC, 2 sizes for London, Paris, Milan etc, and the runway "original sample, keeping the production down to between 5-10 production pieces and the…

I wish I had been so literary, but my love of the name was because the girl in the Goofy Movie was called Roxanne, and I loved that movie as a kid. I agree it's kind of ruined now.

Oh I wasn't trying to call you on anything, I just thought your perspective was interesting.

Oh grrrrrrrrrl...

Its funny that a girl with a "son" last name is silly to you, when it's so normal to me. I've never thought of it that way. My last name ends with son. Post slavery, freed slaves needed a last name for records, but often didn't have one. Often, they would do 1 of 4 things-

Some families do. When was the last time you ran across a Julia Hitler?

My sister changed, but she wanted to move up the alphabet. As it's something we've all been annoyed about since childhood, it's reason enough for me!

Unless you're from one of those cultures where your last name is literally your parents' name + son or daughter, giving you your own distinct surname.

My parents came to the agreement that my mom would name girls, and my dad would name any boys. I was their last daughter, 3 of 3, so my mom let my dad name me, since she knew she was done and it was his last chance. I ended up with the best name, my sisters still will say how jealous they are of my name, I'm the only…

Could it be because all babies look like squat, fat little men?

There's a non enforced law still on the books in my home state that make it illegal for a woman to cut her hair without permission from her father or brother if unmarried, or her husband if she is married. It's a law from the 20s, when I guess a bunch of stodgy old coots went "quick, let's pass this dumb law before…

It's the extension of the "mama's baby, papa's maybe" process. The child gets the dad's last name to assert his responsibility for a child that is definitely the mothers. It's the legacy of illigitimacy and fathers being asked to "claim" children or "give them a name", while the mother's authority over the child is…

Not necessarily. Not all fashion is commercial. Hussein Chalayan and Jean Paul Gaultier are not making commercial pieces. Beautiful, but not sellable. Diane Von Furstenburg and Michael Kors are commercial all the way. Then you have Couture fashion, which is beautiful in a very uderstandable way, but is exquisite…

Pretty girl in glasses. No books. No telescopes. No LARPing paraphernalia. No "Picard Does It Better" t-shirt. No table top civilization building game on a tabe behind her. Nothing actually nerdy. Just glasses, proof only of meh DNA from parents and/or a lack of carrots in her diet. Points for her vaguely being of a…