I thought “too healthy looking.” But I enjoyed the cruelty of her performance, the way I’m enjoying Selma Blair’s portrayal of Kris Kardashian. It’s like they are all doing soap opera versions of historic figures.

There can never be enough Connie Britton.

Right To Remain SilentI’m a huge TAL fan - I’ve listened to nearly every episode. When I was in my 3rd year of law school, in 2009-10, I took a clinic which means that I practiced as a student attorney for law school credit. We defended misdemeanor defendants in the Bronx and we focused on the growing number of…

According to the CDC it would be about 700 accidental deaths by firearm in 2013. So since 9/11; about 10,000 people. US deaths (in the US) by terrorism over the same period; 247 (with a very broad definition of the word “terrorism”). Number of terrorists killed by armed citizens in this period, 0.

yup, my team is small so I don’t want to reveal where I work and what subject area, but the tighrope walk of ‘sensitive topics’ in Texas textbooks has been a major player in my life for my entire time in this industry.

Agreed. There’s actually a push in some academic circles to not remove agency on the part of the slaves. They were more than just chattel that did what they were told. They had profound religious lives, family, days off, etc. They also contributed greatly to the development of the nation, our society, and out success.

Yeah, that’s how I read it. The acknowledgment that the Southern economy was built on slaves’ knowledge. Not that it wasn’t bad. Even the religion part, I thought, was trying to say that slaves had the ability to create community. As much as people here hate religion, it does show how slaves were able to think about…

Right. Or to show the cultural contributions of an enslaved population, which are often overlooked, marginalized, or assumed to have only impacted the descendants of slaves themselves.

A couple of those examples (say, how the slaves brought important knowledge) seem less like attempts at making slavery into a positive thing, and more of a very clumsy attempt to document some kind of... agency or personhood for people who are often only depicted as helpless, faceless, no-impact victims.

Some asshole kept yelling “white power” at pauses during Trump’s speech and, as far as I could tell, no one did or said anything about it. So shameful.

Lolita is 54? Somehow thought she'd be younger.

"very small orgy"

After my divorce, times were tough until I finished school. I once bought a birthday cake for my son, who was a young tween and a constant worrier about everything, using food stamps. The lady in line behind me tsk tsked and made all sorts of comments under her breath until I turned around and asked her what was the…

"I wanted to marry you or have you adopt me"

I know I'm in the greys but this is actually an area i'm studying in detail at the moment so I thought I'd throw in my two cents.

So Lee Daniels told her that she'd been blackballed and then she didn't get roles in Empire or the Butler? Those are both Lee Daniels helmed projects, it's not like they weren't.

So, let me get this straight; we're presenting the story of a kid who has told you how amazing of a liar he is?

It's clear he deserved the indictment.