Why does he need a path back to the career he had before his misconduct became public? There are hundreds, hell thousands of people performing comedy across the country. Why does he get to resume his fame before we consider some (or all) of them for his slots? 

It’s interesting how my own views of that album have changed over the years. I’m 39, so probably in the middle age-wise for RHCP fans. I started listening to them when I was probably about 12, which would have been 1995. Until I was probably 25 BSSM was probably my favorite album of theirs. Since then my opinion of it…

Maybe it’s just me being grumpy lately, but can we at least acknowledge that the man did a good thing without picking apart the motives? Motives can matter, but right now? Where so many people’s rights are in jeopardy from the republican party and every little bit fucking counts regardless of where it comes from or…

I never thought parents should be able to opt their kids out of ANYTHING in school. Parents have too much power. Like the God-botherer parents who opt their kids out of sex ed. School exists to educate children IN SPITE OF their parents. Just because YOU’RE an ignorant boor who was failed by your parents, doesn’t mean…

This is impressive and badly needed. Thank you to The Root.

I can only speak for myself but I know when I need to learn about true blackness and black people I listen to the podcast of a man who watched people eat donkey penis on Fear Factor.

I have always thought that diversity in casting will be when default stops being white

I think the word “debate” elevates what Stockton (et al.) is doing in a way that is detrimental to the parts of the subject that actually ought to be discussed. Big ups to Kareem and Det for calling a thing, a thing, but having to do so is hardly advancing our understanding either.

THIS. Most people advocating for forgiveness right now will tear anyone to shreds that dares to say ‘I paid mine, you should pay yours’ without giving a single thought to the next generation of students. If there is no reform, the problem will only be exacerbated for future borrowers as the financial…

I don’t support student loan debt cancellation without comprehensive reform of the student loan system. Cancelling debt for borrowers today while doing nothing for borrowers tomorrow risks that colleges will raise rates faster. After all, now they know the federal government will just write off the debt.

Says something about how fucked up America is that it costs money & personal effort to correct something that never should have been legal in the 1st place.

While largely symbolic, it would be really good to have a big timeline of when these neighborhoods were all established. Then take that data and make a growth map to visually show everywhere that it was illegal to be Black relative to where current housing sits and how much of that housing has been handed down…

an archaic Senate procedure that purports to maintain bipartisanship, but in practice, just means minority rule and stagnation.

Oh no, is this going to end with a Beach Boys song and my 8 year-old finding out that Buster died in Vietnam?

Great article- shame kinja is so borked that there aren’t even any comments yet an hour after publishing for me to reply to to get out of the greys 

I don’t think I’ll ever begrudge the rich and their private jets ever again. Your odds of seeing a woman breastfeed a cat while flying commercial, are now officially, not zero.

Gibson’s kind of a weird example, though, in that I think it’s hard to make a convincing case that he’s being given a pass because his bigotry was directed against Jews since there was also a healthy dose of racism and misogyny on top of the anti-semitism.

It seems way more likely that he’s getting a pass because his…

Most vans are ‘proof of sex’ vans with the booster seats and crushed Goldfish crackers on the floor.

Please add Dr. to Betty Shabazz’s name. She earned that...just as Dr. King did.