Yeah, no. They’re suing to protect all the Joshes of the world.

No Rich, thank you for sharing those amazing Celine Dion quotes. She is such a lunatic and I love her.

This is one of my favourite books of all time, and I have still not forgiven the Met for closing the tumulus (referenced in the book) the one time I was in New York and had headed to the museum to see it. “Sarah looks like pharaoh! Pass it on!”

I also asked her to describe Trump in three words and her response was: “Stupid asshole”

I liked this. nice, candid, to the point, fealt honest. also a little snap shot in time effect. cool & thanks.

Okay now that REALLY doesn’t sound right. Angelou is known for Not being a fan of modesty. I quote:

Noooooo!!!! Not Maya Angelou! I saw her in person when she gave a talk years ago at a small back water college in OH. She was wonderful and kind to everyone! I’m soooo sorry to hear this. Maybe it was a “pod person?”

Please do not accept (much less repeat) the word of an anonymous poster as truth. Anyone can come on here and besmirch the character of anyone in any way.

Wow, that is shocking to me! I once spent an afternoon in her presence, she came to speak at my university and I was one of the interns lucky enough to be there to keep the refreshments etc going for the staff.

That was evident when, during a tour of Bears Ears, Native American activist Cassandra Begay asked Zinke if he was planning to meet with local tribe leaders. Zinke responded by putting a finger in her face and instructing, “Be nice, don’t be rude.”  

I am about as unsentimental a person as I’ve encountered, including the “too soon” Deadspin commenters, to the point where I begin to wonder if I’m a socio and/or psychopath. Still, I understand that the living are allowed to feel sympathy and offense at the humiliation of the dead, be they animal or human. I’ve…

I suppose your quibble with word choice is valid according to the letter of the law. However the spirit of what she’s asking is whether it is acceptable human behavior to be making outrageous attempt at physical comedy out of the death of an animal like this. There is, I suppose, room for disagreement; maybe you think…

Thank you for pointing out sharks have no concept of Twitter, that was needed

Counterpoint: “sounding white” doesn’t have to mean “speaking properly.” Plenty of white people fail to “speak properly without give-away intonations, expressions and speech patterns.” I would know — I grew up in the Boston area. My whole family sounds white, but they sure as shit don’t sound “proper.”

Is “abusing semicolons to project the illusion of superiority” a white value?

So let me get this. It’s called a dialect when you are white but it’s “ghetto-speak” when it’s black. How’s your American?

Go fuck yourself. From deep down in the bottom of my very own whiteness, go fuck yourself.

Before the next time you feel like harping on “uneducated, poor English,” would you like some grammar pointers? Literally every sentence you wrote has a red flag.

You know, I see the point you are (somewhat poorly) trying to make, but that’s not the point of this article. The problem is that too many people see “speaking properly” not as a “human value” but as a solely WHITE value.

Of course you equate excellence with being caucasian...