I'm so sorry to hear about your troubles. I have PTSD also, and therapy has helped me cope with my irrational fears and anxiety so much. Have you looked into low-fee therapy in your area, like providers who offer a sliding scale, or a community mental health center? I understand that low-fee therapy can be difficult…

Weren't there rumors that VB didn't want to perform at the Olympics and only agreed because she knew it'd look bad if she didn't? Maybe that performance was a one-time thing and she didn't feel like being asked to work together again. The rest of the group hasn't been as successful as she has, so of course they'd want…

Oh my god, dude. How old are you? You have the reading comprehension and critical thinking skills of a middle schooler.

I'm with you. Kanye's said so many absurd things at this point that people reflexively mock his statements. His comments on race, though, almost always strike me as thoughtful and sincere, and, yes, actually important. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the media doesn't take a black guy talking about race…

Point taken, but I doubt that most Americans who are familiar with the Kardashians even know what Loving v. Virginia is (which is depressing and inexcusable). I get that Kanye tends to overestimate his impact on, well, everything. Still, images of interracial couples—especially black men with non-black women—are so…

I agree with you that we are becoming a more multicultural society, but I disagree with The5thElephant's assertion that the resultant tolerance will make casual racism okay. In fact, the more I think about it, the more I realize how absurd their argument is.

Well, I'm not white or an academic, and I'm discussing this issue. My interest has nothing to do with guilt, analysis, or pleasing other people. I'm just sick of casual racism and its defenders. The point is that casual racism—which includes indulging in reductive cultural stereotypes, even if Katy Perry just thinks…

1. Uh, yes. Duh. Are you serious?
2. The U.S. and India don't exist in a vacuum just because it's convenient for you in this discussion. You can't ignore centuries of western (i.e., European) colonization and exploitation of India so that you can make a flimsy point about your country's (nonexistent, BTW) innocence.…

For example a lot of humor that would be totally unacceptable now will probably be considered perfectly harmless 2o years from now as society continues to become more tolerant and equal.

I feel like we're going to look back on this time and be embarrassed at how racist we were. Like we look back on literally ANY period of our nation's history.

Yes. This is the only time I have ever endorsed the phrase "die in a fire."

Did you know they're cousins? Louis is the son of the writer Paul Theroux, and Justin is the son of Paul's brother Eugene, a corporate lawyer.

Oh my gosh, I don't like babies OR Kardashians, but that little thing is so cute I can barely form words (hence "thing").

A spanking? Who are you, Ricky Ricardo?

HAHAHA thank you! I actually had forgotten that plot point. God, I lovehate that episode.

Ahh, but the most ridiculous one is "Wildlife" from season 10! It starts out with a dead lady who had an exotic bird in her purse. Warner determines that a tiger mauled her to death, and that tiger turns out to be Big Boi's tiger, and then Stabler has to go undercover in a Russian animal smuggling ring. He has to eat…

A shop called Tomboy Tailors in San Francisco specializes in custom-made suits for the LGBTQ population. They have pretty bad reviews on Yelp right now, but the most recent one says that it seems like they've turned their problematic customer service around. They don't have an online store yet, though.

It sounds like you might have misophonia: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/06/hea…

Uhh. It was a joke. Lighten up, Professor.

It's actually Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. Harris was the textbook psychopath; Klebold was depressed. (And if you're interested, Dave Cullen wrote a column about the dangers of judging murderers in this morning's NYTimes: http://goo.gl/4p7jg.)