First I don’t ever think a good comment can be too long and your comments are great so...

I’m sorry but no. I don’t think black people have the burden of educating anyone about racism. Specifically, no white adult has any excuse for not knowing a great deal about it. Sure, in school I was taught very little about this like most people, but, you know what? I was taught very little about a whole lot of…

Thanks! That's a very clever idea.

It’s a long and thankless process but I think shaming racists is the best way to deal with them. I remember watching some civil rights era footage where marching blacks were attacked by the police hosing them with water and setting dogs after them. The marchers chanted, “The whole world is watching, the whole world is…

Sprinkle garlic powder especially around the plants you like best or on your fence. It will repel squirrels without harming them.

Honestly, after seeing the results of the last Presidential election, nothing surprises me about these scandals coming out. There is a hardcore of amorality in this society. I thought we were outgrowing it but the moral compass that makes you sense when something is possibly offensive and wrong, a good many people just…

That got covered yesterday. Now we’re on to today's outrage.

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And Etsy is pushing Palentine gifts whenever you land on the main page. Didn’t we celebrate Valentine’s day like this in kindergarten? 

Sober people? Because...o.O

I think the same thing happened to me and around the same time too. I can't ungrey anyone anymore because I'm grey again.

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Hard to say. This one seems newish. The last bankruptcy was in 2010 so surely that’s been settled by now.

Eh, after what happened to the Tsar and his entire family, internment was probably the least terrible possibility they faced if xenophobia ran wild. Sure the name change served them but considering that having a civil war in GB during either WW 1 or WW 2 while they were simultaneously fighting another army would have…

It can be both you know. I’m sure many people with German ancestry changed their names or were very tempted to when their fellow countrymen in GB, the US and pretty much everywhere else were blaming them for Germany’s actions even though most of them hadn’t been born or lived in Germany for a century.

It seems odd on the surface because now people hang on to their names no matter how difficult to pronounce, spell or ‘other’ those names make them seem but this used to be a fairly common phenomena.

Others have mentioned older friends she has so I won’t rehash that aspect but I must say that I only have friends from when I was a child/ teen because I was born, grew up, studied and now work in the same state and my friends have done the same. That makes the regular face-to-face interactions needed to keep up a…

But really, if you have nothing good to say about someone professionally and you don’t necessarily know him or what he does in his private life, why would you wanr to participate in a documentary about him? It seems like a simple statement of facts by Questlove, not an excuse, no one needs to apologize for not wanting…

Well no, there are aristocratic families in GB every bit as prestigious as the Royals so their daughters wouldn’t be seen as social climbing by marrying the future king. For example, Lady Diana wasn’t judged to be social climbing because her family’s title is centuries old. 

I think the problem is that you’re judging this by the wrong goalposts. In Great Britain Kate could have been as rich as Bill Gates and she’d still be considered a social climber for marrying Prince William whereas the poorest of aristocrats who did rhe same would be considered as just doing what was expected.