I can’t watch anything with Damien Lewis. It looks like he bit into an especially sour lemon or is always trying to do that Zoolander look. It’s distracting.

What you’re doing is highlighting a deficiency in public school history. So of it is dedicated to the “great man theory” and political history that it leaves out most of the drivers, those being the people. We learn that men rule the historical narrative because that’s easy to understand. What’s harder to grasp is…

Possibly. I’d spent my whole life up until about 5 years ago in ABQ, so I needed to get away, so i moved to interior New England. One thing I miss about New Mexico: wide roads, where you can see the whole vista unfurling in front of you. There’s no other place quite like the Land of Entrapment.

Not all Republicans may hold those views, but no Republican is willing to break ranks with Trump, so, as far as the public sees, they do support the worst aspects of the party (not that there are any good ones, really.)

Weating an Iron Maiden shirt while seeing a local band at the Launchpad. Ahhh, brings back memories.

I’m from Albuquerque, and I used to joke that you could always tell the transplants because they were old, white, short hair, and decked out head to toe in turquoise shit. Santa Fe was always the worst: people think it’s this portal to another dimension and rarely venture beyond the Plaza. Which is too bad, because…

Shibata had that freak brain injury, but in general, the New Japan guys work less dates and more tags, meaning they can save their bodies for the huge showdowns instead of a 12 minute nothing on a Thursday.

Uber/Lyft is the only reliable “cab” company in my town. It’s cheaper, often by half, and regular cab companies can take up to 2 hours to pick up a call, and often cancel scheduled pick-ups. I understand the ethical qualms, but I’m not going to pay a cab 30 bucks and wait hours when I can pay 15 and wait a few minutes.

I’m getting very strong Tomato Troll vibes off you.

I see this comment a lot, that criminals will commit crimes no matter what. I think what makes the US unique is our pathological love and fear of guns that drives us to believe they are the answer. There’s something special about our love of firearms, and that feeling pushes us to believe they are the first, last, and…

Exactly. Otherwise you end with a chronicle, and that shit is super boring.

That’s not History 101, that’s historicism. The study of history is mostly interpretation, and more often than not, those interpretations are biased by the writer. Historicism is all about retelling the past as it actually happened, with zero interpretation or analysis involved.

I was born and raised in ABQ, and there is no racial quota on crime. White, Hispanic, black, Vietnamese...there is plenty of it to go around. That being said, I love my town and can’t wait to go back.

I work for a non-profit organization that helps homeless people get housed. All of our buildings are designed with trauma informed care in mind to create *GASP* safe spaces for people so they don’t get retraumatized. This isn’t some abstract, academic concept: it’s used in a very specific, practical way. A safe place…

People don’t like the idea of a safe place on college campuses because it’s couched in an academic setting, which is seen as less-than and not the so-called “real world.” I’m sure if you tell them a VFW hall is a safe space you would be shouted out of the room.

I’m with you. I have zero reason in my life to use cash at any point, besides trying to scrounge up a few quarters for a parking meter maybe, but even those are migrating towards app based payments.

It’s the same thing with sports. People who think there are no politics in athletics have never actually looked into the history of any sporting endeavour.

The difference is, I think, with a PR firm or advertising company you know that what you’re consuming is an advertisement. With a social media influencer like this woman, it’s couched as being a real review.

This is not a good faith request, though. She’s not asking for a gift in kind, she’s asking for payment (a free room for multiple nights, totalling hundreds of dollars) for a positive review. Despite being unethical, it’s also probably not worth the hotel’s time.