No, they aren't, and Oh Susanna! isn't even really a folk song. It was one of the dozens of minstrel songs written by Stephen Foster. And most minstrel songs don't actually have much, if any, racial content in their lyrics—the racism came from the context in which they were performed.

To Francis Darwin? Because that makes us distantly related too! Hello, internet cousin! (Also, awesome/beautiful work.)

Psst—it's Frances Darwin.

Well, it's not like that particular sentence is actually wrong. Taken all together this thing is so much offensive horseshit, but fertility treatments and adoption expenses are tremendously expensive and frequently unsuccessful.

Dammit, that makes her seem sympathetic.

You know what, you're right, I over-reacted. I apologize. Seeing that the OP was complying with (I believe unconstitutional?) regulations changes things. However, I still feel like the underlying message that's being taught here is that you should only have to justify your beliefs and actions if you are going against…

Did he really promise that? I'm kind of surprised that even candidate!Obama would go that far.

And you're a shitty teacher.

Personally, I always carry whips with me whenever I think I might encounter a service worker. They need to know who's in charge here! No lowly servant-class member should be able to get food or housing unless they can bring me my fries in under 60 seconds, walking on their knees.

I guess I agree about the pretension of writing your name in lowercase letters, but Wikipedia tells me it was her grandmother's name—that doesn't seem particularly pretentious to me. Lots of people have pen names and or adopt new names.

It's not even that novel to white women—what do you think "bustles" on nineteenth century dresses were trying to do?

I didn't make that number up; look it up. Yes, working 80 hours a week for a terrible boss is probably harder than school for most people, but that isn't most people's experience of work, either. A slave working 20 hours a day in the fields has it harder than you, but you're still allowed to complain.

And so do most college students. 80% of them are working, too.

Yes, who doesn't proofread a joke Craigslist post a half dozen times?

Here's the thing—about 80% of students do have jobs, as well as classes. I think a lot of professors, who either went to school when student loan burdens weren't approaching the absurd, or had Mommy and Daddy send them checks for groceries every week don't realize that this is the new reality.

And as a current history/lit major, I would sell my firstborn if I got to just cram and then fill in bubbles instead of coming up with twenty pages of what are supposed to be original and well-researched thoughts (and not the utter bullshit, padded with double-spaced footnotes, that I always end up spewing). Different…

There right now. This Craigslist post seems genius to me.

Yeah, I think a lot of the underwire-hate comes from being improperly sized. When I was trying to stuff myself into 36Ds they were like stabby torture devices; once I realized I needed 28GGs I was ready to set up an altar to the underwire. (And ugh, if only I hadn't gained that last 5 lbs—I have to start the whole…

Jesus, watch the body-snark.

I don't know if that's fucked up—underwires provide a lot of support.