White privilege, yes, but also celebrity privilege, wealth privilege, and beauty privilege. When you check all of those boxes, things almost always have a way of working out for you. Situations where they suddenly don’t must be almost impossible to understand in comparison.

I didn’t have an opportunity to have a PoC teacher or authority figure until college, but that wasn’t necessary for me to grasp the concept of not being a racist, an asshole, or a racist asshole. All it took was understanding and doing my best to live by the concept of treating others as they’d like to be treated.…

Despite the constant bashing of the ‘liberal media’, or perhaps with that as a component of their overall strategy, Republicans actually dominate radio and tv with by far the largest bullhorns. They have no reservations about lying shamelessly in their cavalcade of opinion shows even as they excoriate every overstep…

If I recall from my brief read through of V5, Thin Bloods are essentially a clan unto themselves- the vitae is too thin/far removed from Cain to even hew to the 3rd gen bloodlines. They can’t learn disciplines, they have no antediluvian weaknesses, I think they can even operate in the sun to some extent. They’re not…

For what it’s worth, I couldn’t stand Indochino’s Houndslaw Chinos. I like their suits and dress pants well enough, but with the same measurements, their Chinos were awful. The material was stiff, confining, unpleasant to the touch inside the pants, and (on top of all that) an incredible dust magnet. 

For what it’s worth, I couldn’t stand Indochino’s Houndslaw Chinos. I like their suits and dress pants well enough,…

Regardless of how you feel about the medium and its effect on discourse (legitimate feelings, as far as I’m concerned, but my opinion doesn’t matter either), it’s a new medium that exists and any side that decides to cede it completely does so at their peril, because competing politicians will not. I imagine there…

It’s not merely the appearance, it’s also a matter of the stubborn way he refused to heed any advice about the potential hazards he was creating by cutting through the joists that would be supporting his massive tub and algae pit, etc. There’s a running SA joke about the way people tend to come into threads sort of…

I had white blond hair until I was thirty, when it rapidly became dishwater/sand. I had numerous people ask to touch it when I was younger, from an Indian classmate in Kindergarten to a trio of white goths in my early twenties. That first one was the most peculiar experience, because as she stroked my five-year-old…

A supervillain kidnapping someone, male or female, sort of falls within the general bounds of supervillainy, doesn’t it? It just seems odd that suddenly Creel specifically, who has been with Titania (a very strong and independent woman) since the 80s and once lovingly referred to her as ‘my breaker of men’, would…

Didn’t Jane Foster Thor just do essentially the same bit, thrashing a (kinda out of character) personification of misogyny? I get the impulse, but it almost seems performative and obligatory at this point for a lot of titles with female leads (Thor, Rat Queens, Squirrel Girl, Ms. Marvel, etc). I guess I still feel…

That’s a lot of words to end up paraphrasing Tyler Durden’s, “Self Improvement is Masturbation”. But in his case, he was the physically idealized alter ego embodiment of what the narrator thought he desperately wished to be, making it caustically self aware.

Wanting to be better versions of ourselves can lead us to…

Anecdotal, but I’ve seen it happen twice when keeping receipts for business reimbursement. That’s the only reason I happened to catch it. I don’t travel for business much (I’d rather send my team to conferences and trainings than use those funds for myself), so in my case, the incidence rate is definitely higher than…

I’m sure if he plays his cards right, he can parlay this into a slot on the wingnut welfare circuit. If it worked for much bigger buffoons like Joe the plumber and George Zimmerman, this kid should have no trouble. He may well be the next Josh Duggar or James O Keefe.

I’m sad to hear that you are worried that you might not spark joy in your wife’s heart and that she may throw you out, but every day is a new opportunity to turn that around!

It doesn’t really matter whether it was 2 day guaranteed or not though. They routinely miss that guarantee for me, but if you read the guarantee, guess what their commitment is to you if they fail to meet it? If you guessed, ‘Refund your shipping cost’, you’re right. Of course, for prime members, that cost is 0. 

For whatever reason, I see Bolton as being in a league of his own for stupendous uselessness and hypocrisy. He’s such a calamitous concatenation of hypocritical cowardice and bellicosity that he just defies all reason. The shifty draft-dodging puke would cave at the merest whiff of a physical confrontation, but he…

New Criticism certainly predates Ebert and I’d sooner attribute it to TS Eliot than to him. I’m not convinced that ‘a generation of internet kids’ is clearly influenced by either. It’s not really a radical notion that a story meant for entertainment should be judged based on how well it succeeds at its purpose. That’s…

Pennsylvania’s math doesn’t seem to properly add up.

And considering every recap reiterates the reviewer’s umbrage at the lack of fidelity to Shirley Jackson’s original work, they’d certainly be regretting any such promotion by now.

“The controversy stems from an exchange during the second set, when Ramos penalized Williams for receiving coaching.”