In the released clip, she says that she hasn’t told her dad that she has black friends because he would kill her. So, yeah, not a dad who will support her decision to not join. (Her parents are divorced, and her mom doesn’t seem supportive of the pressure the father is putting on her.)

Based on the clip A&E posted to it’s youtube channel earlier today, it looks like they are highlighting anit-racist organizations as part of the show. They interview Daryle Lamont Jenkins about the One People’s Project, although it’s unknown if they’ll highlight stories of specific individuals who have been victimized…

Based on the clip posted to A&E’s youtube channel earlier today, the daughter seems to have zero interest in being part of the KKK and is ashamed of her father’s participation, so there is a little ray of hope.

I caught the ad for it while watching Leah Remini’s anti-Scientology show tonight. Obviously, none of us have seen the full program yet, and we shouldn’t be judging it based solely on the topic and not on the content. After seeing the ad and a short clip on A&E’s youtube channel, I’m hopeful that it will do to the KKK…

I thank you for not posting a picture!

I have so many questions. There are spiders with a span of 1.5 feet? You just let it hang out on your ceiling for month? How did you sleep in the same room with it?

Lydia Hearst, who married Chris Hardwick, is WRH’s great-granddaughter. Her mother, Patty Hearst, is the sister of Victoria Hearst.

The show is so good (and very tragically sad)! I’m kind of obsessed with it now.

Brad Pitt was on twice, playing two different characters! The first time, he played a new student that Carol falls for. The next season he played Ben’s favorite rock star who ends up not being a good role model.

Leonardo DiCaprio was so annoying on Growing Pains as well.

I first read this as “Chachi’s garbage band”, which is probably pretty accurate.

I did something similar last year, but with my mom. I got her tickets to see Tony Bennett, and she freaked out. (The older we both get, the more I realize my mom is my kid.)

It’s a direct quote from her concession speech. She said it (although that doesn’t mean she wrote the speech all by herself).

For me, no Christmas playlist is complete without Slade’s Merry Christmas Everybody. It’s relatively obscure in the US, but it seems to be featured in every UK holiday-themed TV show I’ve ever seen. (I first heard it when A&E aired the wonderfully kitschy Bernard and the Genie in the early 90s.)

There’s a woman who gives out my email address because it’s similar to hers. I get all kinds of personal emails about her kids and church meetings. I finally tracked her down on Facebook after a photographer sent me the proofs for her recent family pictures. I emailed her at the email address she lists on Facebook…

Similarly, I’m curious is an Electoral College elector can request a recount. Technically, you vote for the EC electors, not the party candidate.

I think there are a lot of terms being used out there inaccurately. It’s like how “inner city” is now being used to describe areas where African Americans live, regardless of the actually geography. I could be wrong, but I feel like everyone is using the term “working class” to describe what I would call “blue…

My dad was a restaurant/food inspector when I was a kid, and there were definitely restaurants where he didn’t eat (and grocery stores where we didn’t shop). He said that the safest bet was usually a chain fast-food restaurant because the corporations have strict food handling rules and the food doesn’t sit around…

Yep. My dad was a restaurant inspector for our local health department when I was a kid. He also did a lot of home canning (salsa, fruit preserves, pickles, etc.); he would give it away for free to friends and neighbors but wouldn’t sell it because of the food safety laws.

I thought it was Catherine Zeta-Jones in the screenshot. Looks much more like CZJ than Melania Trump.