My immediate worry is mishandling of the vaccine. I’ve worked in places where for whatever reason test samples for research studies got messed up because the strict guidelines weren’t followed and thus they had to wait to go through another cycle. I feel like this won’t be available to the general public until next…

It’s thankfully going away but it used to be socially acceptable to think of nappy hair as being undesirable. That’s probably why you heard it so often.

At this point, it just carries racist connotations because it implies that you have uncivilized hair. Some people’s hair is just naturally nappy and it doesn’t mean…

Don’t worry. She’ll criticize black people as being uncivilized, everyone will forget about it, and she’ll start being praised for doing classic rock covers. Her sister already paved the path to redemption.

Literal sociopath

People need “beacons” of status or achievement to point to. It’s not much different than how a lot of people think of SNL as the pinnacle of comedy. “Do you like rap?” “I like Jay-Z.” It’s both lazy and also a way to weed out people who you think are beneath you.

Very much this. You lose A LOT of people when you start talking about Shakespeare because it always comes off elitist. I feel like so many people don’t talk about what they like about his stuff and immediately skip to how important he is. Unless you are somebody who has been in theatre a long time or teach literature…

I think too many teachers try and get you to the “cultivate your imagination” destination using the worst route possible. I used to love doing literature interpretations but could completely understand why other students hated it. You don’t want to be penalized for not interpreting something the way someone else does.…

As somebody who ended up getting a useless English degree (because whaddya know, knowing the language only matters when you can use it to discriminate against people), we definitely need to modernize and expand the curriculum. There is no reason for there to be one African-American literature class and 5 or 6…

Don’t have anything to add to this one but the story of the woman berating the employee because the turkey tasted bad might be cute on Roseanne but since it’s real life, I would have been completely alright with them telling that mom to go fuck herself.

The amount of shit my mom went through and couldn’t even complain…

Bingo. Conservatives get more validation from figuratively screaming “fire!” in a movie theatre than they do from having discussions amongst their own. That’s also another reason why I think the “we need to hear what the other side is saying” thing is a fallacy. They have been reactionary and regressive for as long as…

It truly is disappointing how many people think that the BLM protests were because of Trump and not because of I don’t know, black people being killed by police.

I know how government works. Thanks. I also know that this country fought a civil war where 3/4 of a million people died, chiefly because many thought the economy wouldn’t survive without being able to use black people as slave labor. I would think that after a reality TV show who ran on a platform of outright bigotry…

And they still tried to obstruct him for 8 years and vote for a literal joke when his time was up so what now? The “No Child Left Behind” equivalent of policy isn’t a good one.

The two of them married inherit both of the debt because marriage is a legal union. If they divorce, he can give her everything, have nothing on the books to give, but still be with her and the money. It’s attempted fraud which is not a good look when you’re already on the hook for it several times over.

It is only a slogan to people who think politics is about marketing and not governing. “Defund the police” is a demand. The interpretation of it is the difference between an activist and a capitalist.

It’s a mix of value judgments and betrayal.

COVID deniers are very likely to believe in bootstrap philosophy and think that people who get sick from it are “weak” or did something dangerous to get it. They obviously believe that could never be them. 

The COVID deniers also probably can’t believe that the politicians,…

Huffman’s recent saga is frustrating in that it’s how normal justice should work but it doesn’t. When you have people dying in jail from COVID-19 and they haven’t even been indicted, it’s bullshit that she gets to go back to normal life after committing fraud.

OMG we have audio proof that Amber Heard said she would lie about abuse allegations. I don’t Depp is a poor innocent victim like his weird fandom does but this torch that this blog carries for her will never not be weird. The Root is willing to drag their own writers but yall die on these weird ass “white woman can’t…

If people are acting rowdy, you kick them out, just like any other business. You don’t need to go on this weird Bill Cosby Pound Cake, “they will have to respect us if we march in suits” speech at a place called fucking True Kocktails.

“Lip pioneer” is making me cackle uncontrollably.

Girl STFU. Quarter of a million people are dead from a disease with no cure, that a shocking amount of people refuse to believe exists, and you’re trying to corner the Kylie Jenner market 4 years late. It’s SO Lisa Rinna but that doesn’t make it any less absurd.