I saw pictures of burned out buildings on twitter and several of the businesses that burned were black-owned (there were pics of the owners crying and trying to protect their stores in pics).

Clayton (where the grand jury and county HQ are) is locked down with national guard troops. Shaw (where the highway stoppage happened) has roads blocked with street detours and armed police for a planned protest on I-44. Ferguson is keeping the police out and being allowed to burn. They either want to punish the…

Are the salty treats there to replace the salt I will inevitably lose when I am weeping uncontrollably?

You guys I am 3 episodes away from finishing Friday Night Lights (for the first time) and I just have SO MANY EMOTIONS. Tim Riggins just got out of jail and I want to hold himmmm...

Because 'Murica is all like: "SEVENTEEN-SEVENTY-SIX, BYATCH!"

The blog idea is supah smaht!

I feel like we can gather replies on the blog and then figure out how to not doxx the fuck out of ourselves. :)

OMG, bless you. I was literally in the process of starting a FB group and flipping about posting the link here all public like. I'm going to go eradicate that FB group from the face of the earth now. :D

I started a blog post to plan a midlands meetup! http://mocena.kinja.com/sc-midlands-je…

Oh, no (actual) complaints from me! I love having the option of zipping upstate or lowcountry on a weekend whim.

Hey, two hours to the beach, two hours to the mountains, not so many tourists. We're pretty good here!

By no means! Repping the armpit of the state right here.

Midlands FTW! I was worried all y'all would be fancy Charlestonians. :)

I know, we used to have the private messages back in ye olde days, but I think that feature is long gone now.

You're definitely not the only one! Several of us usually poke our noses out on SC-related threads. I'm over in Lex. Co. If we can scrounge together a few Midlands Jezzies, it would be great to get together and kvetch. :D

That would be fun!

As a South Carolinian, allow me to offer a thoughtful WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was super excited by the fourth circuit's original ruling, which should have had us issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples months ago, but our…

China's consumer products market is really limited faced with the massive, massive demand. That's why Apple will only let people buy so many full-price day-one iPhones, but people I know of had everyone in the family buy four or whatever in NYC and then sold them at a big profit 28 hours later in China (I live in…

Essentially, yes. The taxes on luxury items in China are quite high. So purchasing an Apple product in the US is much cheaper than purchasing an Apple product in Beijing. What a lot of people will do when big sales or new products come out (because there are generally also delays in getting new products to the…

there are Sephora stores out here, yes (I live in Zhejiang province) but you would not believe how insanely expensive it is. They also had the 20% sale for their member customers last month but even with 20% off, the prices were still higher than what I would pay at home (UK) for the same product, especially the…