I wish I could star this several times.

Elsewhere it was written that Paul had Sugar Shane Mosley as a trainer for another fight earlier this year. Wish he’d decided against working with this jerk.

Aww, thanks. You named it all- entitlement & selfishness are components of narcissism. Both parents have PhDs and are firmly ensconced on family pedestals where they elicit adoration and are affirming of relatives in ways that leave me & my siblings mouth agape. These are the same folks who actively invalidate us &…

Same here. The decades I lost on trying to appease both narcissistic parents literally keeps me up at night. I’m desperate to stop because this is also wasted time.

Sigh. How I wished I learned that lesson early. 

Really looking forward to this. Mangrove was good. It served to show how our global struggles, progress and movements are interwoven and in communication with one another.

EXACTLY! I’m a Ghanaian-American who is quite aware of the plunder and visited on Africa, Asia and other Europeans (Irish, Scots, etc.) as part of their evil empire. The Windrush debacle resulting Caribbean Brits being sent to countries of which they have no recollection is a foul way to thank their forebears for the…

I’m stating the obvious by saying you have a wonderful, amazing wife! The degree to which partners and spouses impact (& influence) food and other influences cannot be overestimated. There’s a world of difference between one who’s empathetic enough proactively seek out what’s beneficial and is a loving participant in…

Shout-out to you for seeing what I’ve doing my level best to avoid! I thankfully don’t have diabetes. The extreme caution speaks to my intention to keep things that way. Ditto, maintaining healthy blood pressure. I love a good seasoned salt, but I have way more unsalted spices where I add the salt I want. I have…

Marceline, the person with whom I was in direct dialogue responded without gratuitous insults. I learned from her and she was gracious as it was clear there were no attacks- ad hominem or otherwise. What I have & haven’t read & the events in my life over the last several months which would explain why, notwithstanding,…

Understood. Because I’m aware that trolls work their way in from the greys, I viewed comments you’d starred first before responding. I thought your question was a sincere inquiry. It then appeared that this wasn’t to be a dialogue but a continued pattern of seeking to invalidate a reasonable, personal choice harming…

Whoa! O-kay, then. 

Thanks. I sought it out after your comment and was duly horrified. Shamelessly, confidently and publicly evil.

I doubt you did. Morton’s table salt, for example, contains dextrose not sucrose, which I wrote in error. My first reply was deliberately clear and nuanced in my expressing that this was my choice to reduce unnecessary sugar, while affirming others’ choices. It’s bizarre that you’re so pressed about it. By all means,…

*dextrose, not sucrose

Fair enough. And I don’t dispute that it wasn’t specific. At all. My feelings are a gooey malaise of generalized anxiety coupled with insecurity about the future.

I make no presumptions about the work you do, however, it just galls me that you’re apparently very well informed about this and can communicate it cogently when neither the aforementioned ecosystem or media follow suit. I’m admittedly not well versed in this area and you’ve probably learned this by being a diligent…

Thanks for that. Deep sigh. No, it’s no longer news. Just demoralizing that it’s not been enough to result in shame-induced progress. I don’t think I’m particularly naive or attributing extra decency to these folks. Yet I’m still keep expecting a baseline of humanity. Just a smidge.

It feels frustratingly like Republicans are rabid dogs while Democrats are toothless ones. The former aren’t remotely afraid of the latter. The pattern over at least 2 decades? The GOP sees reasonable balance as capitulation & the Dems see continued compromise as victory. I just don’t want to be  (& feel) so hopeless.

The issue then becomes WHY is it that you’ve succinctly elucidated points that I hadn’t known about and she didn’t simply say that? It really does feel like an intellectual exercise because none of her kin will starve. The GOP have been great at misinforming the nation and creating a narrative about the Democrats…