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I’m white, almost 50, grew up in Central PA, and this piece made me remember my Uncle Butts and that I never knew what his real first name was. Or his last name. Or how he was related to me. Or if he was. My mind is completely blown today. 

Thank you for that link; it was great!  I love that guy- he also did a really good 2 parter on whether we should still watch Gone With the Wind.  This one you linked inspired me to subscribe to his channel.

Thanks for this write up; I think I will go check out the special. As the parent of a boy, I think a lot about how we expect boys to perform masculinity from a very young age, and because the dirty secret about machismo is that a man can never be masculine enough, many boys end up as men who are not just angry, but…

This was a great read. Because I am an Old, I remember when people actually watched the pageant. I also remember a (male) 5th grade teacher, the day after, grousing to the class that the winner wasn’t “that pretty.”  I remembered it being a year Ms. California won, and went and looked it up, and sure enough; the…

Yeah, but Bernie absolutely floundered in his explanation.  And calling his $600,000, on 5 acres of waterfront property a “camp” or however he tried to downplay it... not a good look.  The other candidates have been pretty hands-off on him; the GOP will not be.

This. If she’d said, “Until we’re no longer making only 72 cents to your dollar, don’t you dare wear dresses because you don’t deserve to experience the relief from the summer heat that only a cute flowing sundress can offer” then I would have maybe been okay with it.

My stepmom, when I called my parents to cry that I was just dumped (at 25) by my boyfriend of 2 years (while I was on tour, 500 miles from home, no less): “Well, better you know now.” She was so CHEERFUL about it! My heart was breaking! And she was CHIPPER!

Man, she brings back such fond memories of my late tweens-early teen years. Her, Dean Koontz, Stephen King- my aunt loved them all and passed the books along to me. I think “A Stranger is Watching” was the first one of hers I read and I thought it was just the best thing EVERY. Ninety-two is a heck of a good run. …

No. The fear of jail is the only thing that has any chance of scaring rich people into behaving. Fines are pocket change to them; they’re just part of the cost of getting what they want, when they want it. But you can’t get back time you spend behind bars, no matter how wealthy you are.

“which makes me think that all of this, this huffy public fuss fight, is a staged act to make Fox News appear like an actual news channel.”

I read the graphic novel, I saw the movie, but I have to give big props to the show- this is the first time I felt I really understood how Manhattan goes through life, and why he doesn’t change things that will happen in “the future” (like avoiding getting hit by the cannon). He’s not seeing “the future,” he’s seeing…

I thought the same thing- I also haver rosacea and you don’t use orange to cover it up. But I suppose, if you slather enough of any makeup on your skin, eventually you’ll cover up the flush, even if the end result is Aging Pumpkin.

I saw it at the Brooklyn Horror Fest and I liked it a lot.

I’m sure this will work out well as people are always super nice and understanding on YouTube. Always be sure to read the comments!

I think 53% mentioned by the original poster actually refers to the percentage of white women who voted for him. He won every white group except college educated white women. Just like every other Republican candidate has done the past several elections (although I think they won college educated white women, too,…

I agree with you on all of this, and it was the dumbest vote of Quinn’s career. It definitely didn’t help that the real estate $$ started the Anyone But Quinn campaign (she was also ratfucked by that, no question), but that vote she cast, and her defense of it, definitely gave an opening to others during the primary.

The argument was the financial crisis, yes (it also benefitted other City elected officials who would have been out for term limits that year, too). And it was SUCH bullshit. I remember Giuliani trying the same thing in the wake of 2001 (although in his case, he just wanted to flat out “postpone” the election…

He’s married to a former Morgan Stanley exec.

Oh man, that period in the 1980s where an actor would make it big and then decide he was going to be a pop star, too... Eddie Murphy, Don Johnson, Patrick Swayze, Bruce Willis...