But God Bless Michael Harriot. I wish to god The Root could moderate a democratic debate. Can you imagine the idiotic things that Biden would say, let along Buttigieg?
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Yeah - I wasn’t buying it either. Pete basically said, “Hey, that was a long time ago!” But he didn’t provide any examples of having learned from his shitty take in the decade since the shitty take was filmed.
I read both Root articles, and I cannot tell if Pete learned his lesson? It doesn’t sound like it. It sounded like Pete told Michael Harriot that Michael was right just to get Michael off Pete’s back.
Suddenly so glad I live in a Midwestern city and work with a lot of very nice, untrendy middle aged people and can just LIVE my damn life......I started considering getting the coat last month and I guarantee you no one but me would ever recognize it here. What a peaceful existence I didn’t know I led
“I put it on the other day and felt really weird about it,” said Caroline Moss, a writer. “I just felt like I was putting on a meme that was done.”
I wanted this coat. BADLY, but I am not sure why.
Humanity deserves to fail if this is the philosophical quandary we’re currently faced with: whether to wear a perfectly functioning coat or not because it’s SO last season. No wonder the fashion industry is the number 2 polluter.
See it so much and never understand why this one became popular. It’s hideous.
My mom still rocks her monstrous winter jacket from the late 80s that looks eerily like these except with a giant fake fur puffy hoodie thing that gets in your eyes if you try to use it.
As the most norm-core of cis-middle-age-white-guys, I can’t begin to fathom ever having even a passing thought about whether the winter coat I bought just last year was ok to wear this year too. How did it ever get to this point?
I’m sure his mother who has a place in Yad Vashem would not be impressed by this sweeping statement of Philip’s heritage. Philip himself fought against the Nazis.
In The White Princess TV series it’s Henry’s mother Margaret Beaufort who had them killed, but let everyone (including her son) believe it was Richard.
My curiosity about Philip has been piqued by watching The Crown, so I read up on him. Despite his well-known habit of putting his foot in his mouth on a regular basis, his background is fascinating. I was recently at a bar in Corfu, Greece that looked across the water to the fortress where he lived as an infant before…
Philip does not come from Nazis. Some of his sisters married Nazis. His mother and at least one sister were heavily involved in resistance work, and he was commended for bravery for his actions in the Royal Navy during WWII.
Actually, there is a line of scholarship that believes Richard III is innocent of the deaths of his nephews and would actually have nothing to gain by murdering them. This is explored at great length in the great Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey. Spoiler alert: History was written by the victors aka Henry Tudor aka…
I think it is easy to blame George V for what happened to the Romanovs. I think it is more complicated though. Nicolas II and Alexandra were related to most of not all of the Royal families in Europe, none of them helped either. And while his family did not deserve what happened to them, Nicolas II was an awful man…
I don’t think he had a choice at the time, really. There was too much going on and any implication that the Brits were supporting the “Whites” and letting British troops die for one of his relatives, wouldn’t have been smart at the time, even though that’s what happened. But having the cover of “British interests” and…
I only recently discovered that George V allowed Nicolas II and his family to be slaughtered and I was absolutely horrified. While I understand the worries about how it would be received by the British public the conditions in Russia that lead to the Revolution were very particular and don’t have many direct…