At this point, I don’t care if people don’t vote for president, but if you don’t vote in local elections, watch out. I was fuming after the WI primary when half the Bernie supporters were feeling all triumphant, not realizing that since they’d neglected to vote down ticket, we ended up a garbage state supreme court…

Um, thank you for contributing to my nightmares.

There is actually a children’s book called “Africa is not a Country.” It’s great.

I dressed up as Frida for Halloween last year. I was a little hesitant, but I the theme of the party was “dress as your favorite feminist/queer icon” so 1) everyone knew who I was (My eyebrows are only ever a few steps from unibrow as it is) and 2) everyone knew their history. If anyone had thought I was just “random…

I will never understand the people who think a businessman will automatically make a better public servant than someone who has devoted their life to it. “What we really need at this company is some new blood, someone with political experience who isn’t a business insider” said no board of directors, ever.

Cannot star this enough.

Yeah, someone on FB referred to it as White Spirituality Privilege: “When you’re too busy staying positive to do anything constructive.”

She was actually responding to that exact question (not that other departments will heed that advice). From the transcript:

If I see one more middle-class white aunt/mom/college roommate spitting out platitudes like “What we need in this world is more LOVE” or “When will we learn that ALL HUMANITY is PRECIOUS” or “POSITIVE ENERGY is the only thing that can fight hate” (and yes, there are always capitalized words), I’m going to punch them…

Yeah, I almost went off on a friend-of-a-friend comment that called her reaction “psychotic” because she was so calm. Of course, I’m 99% sure if she had been hysterical, they would have seen this as evidence that the officer was right to feel threatened.

Thank you. It’s hard enough dealing with Walker day-to-day. DC has the infrastructure to handle its population of multiple nuclear-level assholes (why I moved back to Wisconsin, ironically).

I was just thinking, “OOOooo, I can’t wait to see how Jesse destroys her,” but then I realized he’s too classy to respond to immature drivel like this.

Thx. Figured that out too late.

1) It’s not my “idea” that all cops would approach a white man that cautiously-in the video, it happened.

I’m going to assume you haven’t watched the video.

Ugh. Thanks. I’ve been commenting here for YEARS and still in the greys.

Yeah, my pro-Hillary dad thinks Trump is amusing because there’s no way he’ll win. Like, considered voting for him in the open primary. I keep telling Trump isn’t amusing—he’s terrifying.

One very brave black man decided to test a similar scenario with the help of some white friends. Don’t worry if you can’t watch the video. The result is exactly what you’d expect.

I think you meant Lee or Swinton. She’s certainly not calling herself a “loathsome guy”

At my last job we had “Client Erin” “Account Erin” and “Writer Erin.”