A lot of conservatives have been complaining lately that they are tired of being painted as all racists just because a few of them genuinely are. And yet, they are totally fine with being mistrustful of all Muslims just because a tiny portion of them happen to be radicalized lunatics. Trust, and respect, need to go…

I don’t want to rip on St. Cloud, since it’s a nice little town and all, but the difference in attitudes between residents of the Twin Cities and residents of outlying areas is pretty stark. As is probably the case with most (if not all) major cities in the U.S.

Speaking as someone who lives in Minneapolis (the highest population of Somalis in the entire US) I want to back up your statement 100%. I have friends and co-workers who are Somali (and Ethiopian, and Eritrean as well). Somalis are just regular folks, in my experience. They want what everyone else wants - to go home…

A very good point. Right-wingers have used abortion as a wedge issue for decades to motivate the masses to get out and vote, and they stick with it because it works. If they actually overturned it, what would they turn to next? Oppressing women, minorities, and the poor just doesn’t sell quite as well if they can’t…

To be fair, a Ted Cruz Presidency would actually be the darkest timeline. We are merely the second-darkest timeline.

The church that I voted at is also a pokestop. I was in and out so quickly that it barely had time to reset so I could hit it on the way back out again.

Go on...

Let me guess, she frequently uses the word “sheeple”?

Did they change it? I thought it was November 35th?

This video was produced by Project Veritas, the group that was founded by James O’Keefe. So I’m afraid I’m going to have to pre-emptively call bullshit on it right now.

Let’s see - Obama moves into the White House and incidents of racist violence come to the forefront of our national attention. Hillary is (almost assuredly) going to be moving back to the White House, and issues of institutional misogyny are brought to the forefront of our national attention. Hmm... what could the…

That’s just what I was wondering. I admit, it was hard to give them all equal amounts of attention when the Republican Clown Car had like 17 passengers and some of the others were just so damn amusing (Carly Fiorina and her allergic reactions to any amount of truth were my favorite to watch, honestly) and so I just…

I think it was something Nate Silver did for fivethirtyeight about demographics breakdowns, sorry I can’t find the link anymore. It went like this: If only men voted, Trump won easily. If only women voted, it was Hillary by a landslide. If only white people voted, Trump won easily. If only minorities voted, Hillary…

Not to be all Debbie Downer or anything, but if you are going to co-sleep with your baby you have to be extremely careful. A friend of my brother’s was co-sleeping with his infant son, and accidentally rolled over on him in his sleep and smothered the child. Everyone understood that it was a horrible, tragic accident…

When I was 18 I went to go visit a friend at her college a couple of hours away from where I lived, and my ride back home fell through. So I ended up staying in her dorm room (a single, thankfully) for about a week with nothing to do. During this time, she ditched me for a couple of days to stay with her boyfriend. I…

5 is very young, but you’d be surprised how resilient little kids can be. Lots of folks here in the comments are freaking out about the very idea of a 5-year-old flying unaccompanied, but I did that very thing myself. My first flight was a solo airplane trip from Minneapolis to Detroit when I was 5 years old, meeting…

“Lifted” isn’t exactly setting me on fire, but damn it’s better than the single she put out with Diplo “Dr Pepper”. I say this as a crazy-big fan of CL’s, but hot damn “Dr Pepper” was a steaming pile of shit.

Both pronunciations are actually acceptable. Two ways of saying it provides for more opportunities to make puns, which is always a good thing.

I’m pretty sure the shock alone took 10 years off of my life.

I am also a Minnesota resident, and I can completely back up your observation. I wonder sometimes if it’s “Minnesota nice” at play, in which we attempt to punish people who don’t get into the correct lane early for their perceived “lack of courtesy”. I know that’s how I reacted for a very long time, until I learned…