Actually it does matter where it is. No one would notice or be surprised if this was in Podunk, where there are maybe three black families in the county. This is in a metropolitan area, where they should have known that some of the population would take exception to it. And it doesn’t make us outraged, it makes us…

Re: Trumbolio. I thought it would be funny, but I guess funny doesn’t need explanation.

That’s likely a case of plausible deniability. Or it was before they opened their mouths about how it’s hip hop themed and added the little crown.

It’s because the WDM Chamber of Commerce paid for that listing/designation, not for any real, discernible reason.

The Des Moines metro area has an estimated population of just under 635,000 people, so it’s not some backwater little rural town where there are no black people.

Yeah, that’s a good way to get your restaurant burned to the ground. Do you know how irritating Kidz Bop is?

I’m getting back to you now. Where the fuck were you all when the Krunkwich Ramen Shop opened, or was that not obvious enough in spite of the grinning Lucky Cat with the gold tooth sign they put up?

I’m in Iowa and know several, both transwomen and transmen. But I’m in a city, and the area I live in is between two universities going east to west and downtown to the area where our art museum is going north to south, so that probably has a bit to do with it.

There are women’s urinals though. I honestly wish that more bathrooms had them, then the squatters could stop pissing all over the seats.

Yeah, made me feel bad. Not that bad, but kind of like I was maybe being a bitch.

Reading that it was called “nigger brown” I had already assumed it was from Asia, most likely China. Hearing that it’s counterfeit, it definitely is.

Yeah, but strange shit. (When I read the title and looked at him I figured it was probably going to be “something something Indonesian something something something” though, not Italian.)

Better yet, as we’re looking to expand within the first year, shall I contact you when I’ve written up the franchisee’s agreement? Own your own business, be your own boss! (Live happily ever after and do cool shit!)

Not necessarily. If one of his grandparents was passing, it’s not unreasonable for a down-the-line baby to have a substantially darker complexion than both parents and all siblings. Just because the correct genes didn’t express for a while doesn’t mean they upped stakes and wandered off into the fields of whiteness…

And when he mentions seeing pictures of his father’s family, he doesn’t mention his grandfather so apparently he doesn’t have a complete record of them to look at himself.

Okay! Starting crowd funding for my business where I take naps for those of you too busy to take them yourselves right now!

This makes me miss Superjail! so much.

Then the abyss shudders and turns away, wishing it had listened to its better judgment and just not gazed at Coulter.

State and local money only goes so far. It’s a combination of local, state and federal money that funds the schools. Moreover, what they get to do, what standards they are held to and what the regulations governing what can and cannot be counted as a “public” school is all determined by the federal government.

Yeah. It’s just the complete lack of acknowledgement that Officers have other options than bullets that is the part that really gets me more and more angry when it keeps getting ignored. Why does no one use their Taser anymore? Yeah, it could still kill someone, but hey, it also probably wouldn’t!