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If only Charlie had known ...

Dave Chappelle as Rick James saying CHARLIE MURPHY talking about Prince forever.

I’m not ready to trust TMZ, but there were rumors Prince had a hip replacement a few years back. Lots of people get hooked on painkillers after major surgery. And it definitely fits better with the fact he was touring up to last week than that AIDS rumor does.

Cuz once you report, a whole apparatus comes clanging down. One of its main features was “confidentiality.” I wasn’t allowed to talk about it with anyone, and I didn’t know enough about life to advocate for myself, or consider that their apparatus might be a very bad way to do things. I didn’t figure that out till it…

I’ve talked about this before on Jez, but it was about this case that I got into my first political debate with an adult (my uncle). It culminated with me calling my uncle an idiot. It’s one of my progressive father’s most treasured memories.

You boss sounds like she was not the worst, but why couldn’t she have helped you handle that?

I was pretty young when the hearings were on but I very distinctly remember the debate on the hearings on Designing Women. I feel like a lot of my liberal political leanings were shaped by Designing Women and Golden Girls.

You know what’s funny about the movie? It wasn’t skewed toward either side, but was more of a dramatized retelling of history. In that way, the facts are jaw dropping. I sat there for the entire almost 2 hours without turning the TV or getting up for a break. Were it not for the dynamic between she and Prof. Ogletree…

1991 was also the year that Ann Richards became governor of Texas. After a campaign in which her opponent really stuck his foot in his mouth by saying that a woman being raped should just lay back and enjoy it.

I was sexually harassed at work in my mid-20s (first job out of college) and, while it was bad, right after it happened I wasn’t even sure I should categorize it as harassment. More like an awkward attempt to pick me up that got out of hand? (I was young and dumb.) On the way home, I told my boss what happened, mostly…

I haven’t watched Confirmation yet, but I remember the RL events. I was young and I had my first “real” job. I was a data entry clerk for an exterminator, making a whopping $5/hr to type hand-written service reports into a PC.

I was in my early teens during the testimonies, remember watching and being firmly on the side of Anita Hill. What I didn’t understand or appreciate at the time was the sheer bravery she must have had to face all of those horrible people and be treated with such condescension. I’m glad the movie doesn’t try to tell…

Because people asked her about Romney and the Latino vote since she works for an organization that registers that vote. She simply gave an answer saying what he could do to get the Latino vote, but at the same time the Republicans have alienated that vote so much it might be too difficult for him.

What? There were over 12,000 people arrested at the May Day protests in DC in 1971.

I heard this is probably the most number of people arrested EVER at a protest in Washington DC but of course the corporate media is barely covering it

Yellowface is yellowface even if it’s CGI.

I didn’t get the ‘abortion is a type of violence’ comment made to her; no it isn’t? The vast majority of abortions occur when its a small cluster of cells. It seems like a weird definition of violence that you could apply to everything from stem cell research to cutting your hair.