It’s often said educated black people have Two Sides: the side they show the wider (whiter) world, and the side they show back home, flipping between the two with ease based on what they need to get done and rarely letting one side see the other.

The Ivy League is literally a collegiate sports league, like the SEC or the Pac-12. So yeah, the sports standings of the eight schools in the league are kept separately from schools that aren’t in the league, because that is the normal way you determine a league champion.

Ivies don’t give out athletic scholarships. And very little of the school’s income comes from tuition dollars. Its endowment is $37 billion dollars—the largest in the world.

Holy mother of pearl. Real consequences to the sports ball game for grossly sexist and dehumanizing behavior.

you are this upset about a team of people you don’t know losing a game? Imagine how you might feel if your people were virtually exterminated over a span of hundreds of years, thrown onto reservations, and forced to watch what was left of your people and culture become a caricature for a baseball team....

Hunter is an elite public school, and there’s a fair amount of economic diversity. (I’m a graduate.) These kids are just assholes. It has very little in common with the other fancy high schools in the neighborhood. It IS, however, a terrible, depressing place.

My excuse for the rape scene is that Joss Whedon always has to ruin things that he’s otherwise perfected and takes strong nuanced characters and reduces them to victim or abuser on a sexual and gendered scpectrum for no good reason.

Except (and as someone with ZERO Spanish/Portuguese) even I could have guessed that contra meant “against” or “oppose” ie CONTRAindicated, CONTRAlateral, CONTRAception.

Even if you don’t know Spanish, contra is used as a prefix in English. It still means “against” or “opposite of.”

It is a stretch to say that, which is why nobody said it. Everyone knows the Atlantic is generally a highbrow center-left publication. You don’t have to say it’s ideologically biased, a claim not made here, in order to say “this particular Atlantic reporter did a really stupid article and should have been more of a…

Oh, come on. He didn’t say anything about this girl he wouldn’t say about his own daughter.

Actually, it’s much more aggravating when anyone not in NYC, DC or Shanksville, or who suffered a personal loss on that day trying to take ownership of 9/11. Because they saw it on TV.

New Yorkers are generally “over” 9/11, as it were. They were basically over it in October, 2001. Yes, there is still a wound there,…

Mulignan. I worked for a guy who didn’t know I knew. Didn’t work there long.

Nothing is wrong with his signature. It very clearly reads “Damn Hnn mup.”

There’s only going to be one funeral on Sunday and it ain’t going to be hers.

I call bullshit.

Sidebar: Dillion.

• “Harvard students will support the strikers.”

Even a blind squirrel gets a nut sometimes.