as someone in recovery and having seen the successes and failures of so many people in my recovery meetings, people aren’t textbooks and most of the ideas around addiction are quickly losing merit. especially as we learn how dangerous the purist/disease model and all the “red flag projections” baggage it carries with…
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It makes me think maybe the pregnancy was unplanned, and they were like, “Fuck it, we can do this together too.” So good for them, and i hope they’re right about that.
I went to rehab for cocaine as well, I’m approaching a year and I’ve basically had to reduce a lot of things in my life that feel like I’m performing for people (work events, stepping down from roles in friends weddings, summer BBQ’s, dates). I can’t imagine being a literal a performer struggling with cocaine abuse.…
I had to look twice to confirm that it wasn’t an Onion headline.
At first I took the headline literally. That would not have surprised a Knick fan, unless that fan’s name was Dolan.
I missed that game and went to bed early as I had to be up at 5am for a four hour drive west, so I only heard about it on the radio during the drive the next morning. I desperately needed to see what had happened, so I stopped at the first rest stop I knew had a television and was like, “What the Hell is going on?”. I…
And the dumbest takes once you’ve read the shit beneath.
Ohhh Zeke....as a life long Pistons fan, I love you, or at least the player I love(d). But my man, you have been an embarrassment/train wreck since your playing days ended. A front office nightmare really. I wish you would just smile and stfu sometimes....*sigh
So the man who was found at fault in a sexual harassment lawsuit that cost his employers $10 million, the man who traded for Stephon Marbury and Eddie Curry, the man who couldn’t stop Dennis Rodman from attacking his wife or opponents was gonna be the calm voice of reason to stop a free for all? i don’t seem to…
Ken Jennings was good. Aaron Rodgers was good. Mayim Bialik was good. They were all different from Alex and the show would change a bit to fit them. That's fine. The EP was okay, I guess.
This happened at a company I worked for... Our site GM quit, and we had a strong internal candidate who people thought would do a good job. Instead the guy from corporate running the search moved to town and took the job.
I wasn’t exactly blown away by LeVar Burton, he seemed a little too much like a “cheerleader” for the contestants and was just so happy for everyone all the time. I want someone who’s able to be a little salty and is willing to shame them for getting an easy answer wrong (like Alex used to do) and I just didn’t see…
The most recent episode of NPR’s Code Switch podcast is about this topic.
The shocking thing to me is the “go fuck yourself” after she realized she was dead wrong and had been recorded for umpteen minutes racially profiling this guy. Why is this the go to response? They get caught for some racist shit and their initial reaction is to tell everyone objecting to the racist shit to effectively…
I’ve actually had my phone stollen by a student (and dumped in a dumpster), and my first thought when I can’t find my phone when I’m out is still, “Oh, crap, I left it in the car.” What is the mental defect that immediately sends you to “someone must have stollen it”? (Of course, racism is the defect that makes you…
Years later: “Remember when I kept that Black Man from stealing your phone at Walmart?” “Time for the home, ma, your memory is going just as bad as your bigotry.”
One of my best friends was a dark-skinned Hispanic, and he was TORMENTED over it by the lighter-skinned Hispanics at school. It's a real thing, and I feel like it doesn't really get discussed enough.
She may be Latinx but identifies as White and is mostly treated as such. This means if you’re Black, you are always a potential transgressor just looking for a chance in her eyes.
Whoa! Hold up with your reason and logic and grade school problem solving!