I knew a lady who used to get ladybug infestations every spring - one time I counted more than 3o on a single 3x5 pane of her window. ANY insect in sufficient quantity is gross and creepy - the only difference is in the numbers.

Germany, also (at least in the East German city where I live). The only way we can tell that it’s spring is because the hippies are *hey presto* shoeless, and it’s never indoors - always outdoors across the filthy sidewalks lined with cigarette butts and loogies and dog shit. Those same people are almost always white…

I would say these lyrics are cheesier, lamer, less imaginative and less compelling than her usual fare. The whole thing is just plain boring.

If the lyric was “Making farts under covers” it would be 1000x better and more honest.

Nooooo. When my last ex and I broke up I could never would never want to touch a thing of his ever again! But I am a clean break person. I don’t even want to hear your name for 6 months. I don’t get the hanging on.

Sure but if you were Joe Jonas you probably wouldn’t need a costume to not get recognized.

If you’re confused about this move, I suggest you read “Girls to the Front” a history of Riot Grrl, and why musicians like Kathleen Hannah felt it was important to create space for women in the front of the venue. It’s wonderful to see this sentiment being carried on here for Women of Color.

You hit a kid you beat a kid, same thing, different degrees of pitiful evil are still pitiful evil.

I remember similar discussions on deadspin about hitting kids, and they came to an agreement that even if they didn’t get the shit beat out of them, it was still fucked up. Negative reinforcement is a shitty way to shape behavior.

The problem is that a lot of people don’t seem to know the difference. If you’re hitting your kid out of pure anger, you don’t need to hit them period.

Can we all admit that after all the crap we like to talk about the beatings that our parents gave us, that we did NOT like it and perhaps we shouldn’t treat our kids the same way? I don’t hit my kids, they’re honor students , they tell me everything , they don’t sneak around and lie, they TRUST me to be fair with…

I’d like to suggest folks take a look at the comments on the “will you hit your kids” article from a few weeks back. All y’all talking gleefully about how your moms had them quick hands and you’ll be doing the same thing? This is the shit you support. Please do us a favor and don’t have children.

A white guy not one month ago killed fifty-eight people and injured five hundred and forty-six people and he was not called a terrorist. How many people does a white person have to kill before he or she is called a terrorist?

Maybe so, but they are the ones who accosted her first, and she had reason to fear for her and her partner’s safety. If a group of white supremacists want to “see me outside” I’m swinging first, preferably with a blade.

Fuck these people. I get sideways looks when I’m with my wife all the time. I would hate to have to deal with them while they’re emboldened and in a group of 20.

I don’t know. I mean, I get it—standing up to them, in support of the targeted couple is difficult, and entails a lot of risk. At the same time, being all weepy about it afterwards and appealing to the idea of ‘loving’ everybody is pollyann-ish, and will do nothing to weaken the White Power 2.0 movement.

Ikr? It’s not a boy in elementary school pulling your pigtails; it’s fricking Nazis.

The people most proud of their race tend to be the worst examples of it.

I would tell that story with less pride and Glee. As I told my wife when we discussing raising our kids. If you as an adult can’t figure out how to get a child to obey you without resorting to physical violence, it says more about you than the child.

I wanna be friends with Karen.