Have you ever purchased something while you were with your wife or girlfriend? It doesn't have to be talked about to come up.

Proof of one time this has ever happened, please. Because there are plenty of examples of gay people actually being turned away when they actually tried to buy something.

Your boss sounds like an asshole.

France got off pretty light too. They at least tie with England when it comes to colonialism.

There's also all those wars we keep losing.

1, 2, 3, triple deke.

I agree. American exceptionalism is a load and patriotism/jingoism is distasteful at best and dangerous at worst, especially if you're not white.

Yeah, we don't get that so much, more things like a cab driver telling you how with Obama in charge it's the white man that's really held down now. Or at least, that's my experience. It makes for an uncomfortable ride.

I probably wasn't clear. I didn't mean to imply that Portland was on the same scale as the south ("the only real difference" wasn't entirely correct), but there are still a huge number of racist whites - just check the Facebook comments on any local news story with a hint of a racial aspect or even that's just about a…

Hey, I'm on board with that too.

Hell, I live in Portland and there are still plenty of white people willing to be racist when there are only white people around. The only real difference is that people use a a fuckton more code language here instead of outright slurs.

I imagine that more than a few Black students cared.

The notion of patriotism is somewhat foreign to many people that aren't in the US, and I feel the same way. Don't get me wrong, I'm not upset to have been born in America (there are certainly worse places for a straight white guy to be born), but I'm not particularly proud of what is an accident of birth - especially…

You should try wild boar. Insanely delicious.

1. Calling Sheridan "just outside of Portland" in either geography or philosophy betrays a woeful lack of understanding of Sheridan, Portland, and Oregon in general.

Harbaugh.

You don't understand science.

For some reason Portland got it. Sorry, Scientologists, but there are limits to the stupid shit Portlanders will buy into. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a gluten-free muffin and some unfluoridated water to dig into.

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