As a middle aged, first generation, Desi guy; this was eye opening. My condolences to you and your family. I am sorry for your loss. I want to write more, but I will refrain. I am going to reread this again as I have nephews, nieces and sons and daughters of friends that feel this sense of alienation.

I’m cynical enough that I don’t think anything is actually going to come of this, but I sure am enjoying Trump’s anxiety.

Exactly.

It should be as severely regulated as nicotine products.  Simple as that. 

Barring particular personal medical conditions, having your chili full of salt and fat isn’t bad for you, and in fact is probably good! Can we throw the lo-fat craze in the goddamn trash already?

Some may say that Brady is a puppy who has lost its way.

Yeah my first thought on seeing the picture is “oh, it looks like a kid being a kid”. I have pretty much no place talking about black hair in any definitive way, so I’ll let Ashley do it way better than I, but I like the idea of kids looking like kids and including all the children in the same look. 

If I ever hit my head hard enough to black out, literally see stars, and not be able to see straight, I’d use that injury as my go-to excuse for the rest of my life. I’d never have to help another friend move.

Ah yes, Schrodinger's Queer: Gay men aren't real men, but trans women are the manliest men.

Most of the time I’ve read about men entering women’s restrooms is when conservative men do it.

At the very least there should be a “any given day” attribute, because we all know that on “any given day” a terrible team can play out of their minds while a good team can keep making one dumb mistake after another, resulting in a huge upset win. If games are striving for realism, that invisible setting needs to…

One tradition I’ve always had, with any character creation tool, is I always give my first created character African American features, then white hair and blue eyes. Then I try to give them a name akin to some kind of ice or winter theme. For example, “Fross T. Ryder” was my first ME Andromeda character I made (but…

even in an era when Martin Luther King Jr. sermons are laid over car commercials.

People have been using they/them as a singular gender neutral pronoun for years.

I genuinely think this culture of grinding terror is as bad as the shootings themselves (like, in terms of the average school student; an actual shooting is much worse, but still only a tiny chance of it actually happening, whereas this is less traumatic than the real thing, but happens routinely to everyone). This is…

It’s just our daily proof that no matter what kind of woman you are, everyone will be lining up to take you down. It’s enraging, actually. 

It’s seriously ridiculous. I went to urgent care for chest pain and they told me after waiting 20 minutes that I could be having a heart attack (27 decent shape) and should go to the ER... instead of helping someone they thought was having a heart attack.

“The body positive movement doesn’t put people with disabilities and other marginalised bodies into the foreground,” writer Rebekah Taussig told the Guardian in a piece on the term. “Body neutrality, I think, has the power to be really useful in particular to people with disabilities, especially those with…

This video is a perfect analogy of my cocaine years. Sure, I was yoked in my 20s, going to the gym, with veins popping out of my arms. I was built like peak Terrell Owens.

It’s maddening that the solution seems to focus on things that won’t stymie addicts at all (like making prescriptions logistically more difficult to fill) and completely ignoring things like counseling people on how to transition off opiates they receive after surgery. My husband was sent home from a spinal fusion…