It’s important to note that Daesh is a loose acronym but also a play on words in Arabic -an insulting term that originated amongst Syrians. The group calling itself the Islamic State hates that term. Furthermore, using ‘Daesh’ undermines the aspirations of the terrorist group to be recognized as a caliphate and state.…

Call me cynical, but the only thing surprising about that (it’s shocking, yes, but not surprising) is that the teenager share of the terrorist population isn’t well over 50%. Add testosterone poisoning to underlying conditions of youthful disaffection and anomie (in alienated social groups, no less) and you basically…

There are deep underlying issues in *every* contemporary culture (except maybe Colorado weedsters and marine algae nerds?) that aren’t compatible and lean violent. It’s not Islam, it’s people. Islam just happens to have an organized geopolitical rallying point right now that claims Muslim legitimacy.

“folks” = Me, all by myself. I’m doing my best to keep up with today’s constantly updating news.

Probably to prevent a panic. Imagine thousands of Parisians getting alerts that their shit is blowing up around them and suddenly you’ve got a crowd crisis. Tens of thousands pushing towards the exit, peopling getting literally crushed to death, trampled upon, families losing children. Were they safer in the stadium?…

Isn’t it amazing?? My husband was thrown off by the title, and was shocked I’d watch something that he assumed would be gross and offensive. I made him watch an episode and he’s hooked. I sing “The Sexy Getting Ready Song” when we’re getting dressed up to go out. :)

Read Malcolm Gladwells study of kitty Genovese. The police were actually called many times by dozens of people during the attack....The reason no one intervened was because they believed someone else would. It’s one of those psych iconic tales that’s absolutely false in every way.

It comes from a place of love.

Trust me, this is far from the weirdest girly calendar out there. They probably exhale a sigh of relief when they see “Carponizer” on their caller ID.

You’re a shitty troll. Next question?

The thing is, colorism is a big problem in brown and black communities, and it is important to drag it out into the open and discuss it. That’s not quite what this dumbass is doing, though. The way to discuss colorism is not to tell lighter people that they are less authentic and insist that they don’t know who their…

He’s not the first black anything. Elson Floyd was the President for years very recently. He probably would have been dark enough for you. Christ.

You. Are. So. Stupid.

No, not trolling at all. Nope.

Oh, but you’re Black, right? “Blacks.” “Some of them.” You need to do a bit of research, soul sister. WE absolutely come in many different shades and hair colors, and straight from Africa. My BLACK family contains many shades of brown, as do many COMPLETELY BLACK families, you ignorant ass.

‘You’re not black enough’ sounds not dissimilar to ‘you’re too black’ in that both are reductive and intellectually lazy.

Those of us who are actually Black know that Black people come in all shades. He is “presenting” as Black because HE IS BLACK. Damn, we can’t win with you people.

And yet they are still Black. This is insulting to light-skinned people who supposedly are not “Black enough” for whoever is doing the looking.

But that stuff is important; accuracy is important. It's stuff like this that annoys me.