Ok then... I forgot his single scene. With all of the internet to comb through, you found 1 person with speaking lines last season who wasn't a slave or slaver. Seriously though, you have to admit that GOT can do better than that, right?

Salladhor Saan hasn't been in season three at all, to my memory. And I was super excited when he was cast, although he had pitifully few lines. But that is exactly the kind of rich/complex POC characters I would love to see in GOT and who would be easy enough to include in a cast that large and complex. Making the…

Neither of them were in season three though. I think that's part of the frustration. It would be easy to have more black pirates or traders or people at court or spies or whatever, without breaking the "world view" but instead this season all we get is slaves. Which just seems lazy.

+1 There hasn't been a single POC character in season three who wasn't a slave or a prostitute. Which is just depressing and unnecessary. I know everyone is like, "But it's supposed to be based on Europe!!!" but seriously there is magic and dragons, and it would strain the imagination too much to make a couple of…

I am embarrassed to admit I watched the whole thing. It was terrible. But also weirdly compelling? Also terrible.

We're here! We're queer! We don't want anymore bears!

When you make broad and totally inaccurate generalizations without backing them up with any kind of data, people are going to assume that you are a troll. Because you are!

Sigh, but 50 public schools have not been saved from closure. The (appointed) Board of Ed rubber stamped all of the proposed closures today. The whole thing makes me want to cry. Here is a convenient debunking by the local NPR station of basically all of the arguments for closing the schools: http://www.wbez.org/node/1…

I agree that this case is a total outrage (who didn't blow shit up as a kid) and she shouldn't be charged with a felony, BUT you misstate a bunch of key facts in the case: She wasn't in class, she was outdoors but on school ground, and it wasn't a class experiment. Her teacher said that they had never assigned…

There are definitely multiracial families pictured, just none with white folks in them.

Also, they pay their artists decently for their work, which I really appreciate!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE their mamas day cards, and send them to all the rad moms in my life every year!

Yeah, when I was interviewing (paid) interns at my work, we would ask where they would want to be in five years and more than 50% said "I want to work at a non-profit" but then couldn't specify an issue, or even type of non-profit (direct service, organizing, advocacy) they wanted to work at. I was like, seriously?…

Wait. What? Beyond any other issue, how would that garment function as a bra? I just... NO.

Hi! Question with possibly no good answers here but lemme give it a go: There is an (amazing) Korean Spa here in town that recently got into trouble for asking a trans man to leave after people in the men's locker room complained. There are nude gender segregated spaces and clothed co-ed spaces in the sauna. They…

Not true! I have a super round face with big cheeks and a squared off jaw, and I looked awesome with a super short Ginnifer Goodwin type pixie. The folks below are right when they say it's worth spending too much money on your first cut, but definitely go for it! It will make you feel like a badass.

Please consider making/selling them as a fundraiser! I would TOTALLY buy some!

70% of teachers teach in subjects that AREN'T subject to standardized testing. So no, it's not fair to be graded on tests in a subject YOU DIDN'T teach. And it's super not fair to the kids to implement more tests and waste more time on testing especially when it hasn't been shown to correlate to things like academic…

The issue with Baligate wasn't that she was importing Balinese *wood*. It's that she's importing Balinese WOOD FURNITURE. Wholesale. I don't think anyone would have had a problem with her making furniture from old boat wood that was imported. The issues is that she was buying furniture wholesale, reselling it on…

This fight has been going on for three years, and IML has been called out for using Hyatt every year. They could have EASILY inserted boilerplate language in their contract that would protect them from cancellation fees in case of labor disputes. And they chose not to.