Fame, money, and charisma can make assholes very attractive. Unfortunately I think Chris Brown has a fanbase full of women willing to deal with him and his abuse.

If you’re saying she’s at fault for the abuse or deserved it, then yeah that’s wrong and judgmental. But it’s legitimate to question a person who chooses to date someone who has a history of abuse. It’s one thing to be in an abusive relationship when you had no real prior warning that the person would become abusive -…

I have a client who is here legally on a student visa. He’s been trying for years to become a citizen but can’t afford to complete the process because he’s a student working part time. He has the opportunity to take a job in Texas at a company that would help with becoming a legal citizen. He’s now afraid to fly there…

I think it’s always been there lurking under the surface but in the U.S. it was essentially overshadowed by larger institutional racism against black people, Native Americans, and now Latinos. It seems like the current upswing in overt racism and xenophobia has brought it back out of the shadows.

But they’re not the right kind of white i.e. Christian. Anti-semitism is a perfect storm of racial and religious bigotry with a heaping dash of nationalist xenophobia and conspiracy theorist craziness.

The whole failure to make basic connections is just baffling to me. It’s like they’re purposing skipping over the fact that the more people who choose not to vaccinate, the weaker herd immunity becomes. By choosing not to vaccinate, they’re already part of the problem. When they encourage other people not to…

Glad your dad is doing okay. My husband just got out of the hospital after a bout of the flu. It triggered his asthma which then lead to him hyperventilating. And he had the flu shot. If his immune system had been weaker, he would have been a lot worse off. A lot of people don’t seem to understand how dangerous the…

It would make way more sense to work on streamlining the immigration process for people like Rayos who have been here for years, who have lives here, and who are productive members of society. I get that what she did was wrong. She should be fined for that or placed on probation. Deporting her serves no purpose other…

Those images are certainly going to stay with me. Just one more reason for me to stick with collecting Barbie dolls.

Sad but not surprising. Dude’s been released to what, exactly? He’s been in jail for 26 years. He went to jail before cell phones and the internet were actual things that regular people use. What skills does he have? What kind of support system? What kind of job can he get with his history? Most places don’t want an…

Public schools taught me to embrace my love of reading and exposed me to new ideas and cultures.

She looks very nice. I know some people don’t care for the matchy shoes but I think the head to toe blue is very pretty. Too bad I get the feeling she won’t get the chance to attend similar events since it’s pretty clear that Ivanka is going to be the equivalent of First Lady.

Sometimes I think people just like to be contrarian, bitter-ish, and dismissive about feel-good things. And I say this as a somewhat cynical person. I don’t even think they see it as shitting on the kids’ accomplishments, just pointing out, unnecessarily, that they feel like people are making a big deal out of what…

Sending good will

Just got a shiny new vacuum today and got a crock pot yesterday to replace the one that died. I’m far more excited about both of those things than I probably should be. My biggest I’m adult purchase was life insurance. I feel so responsible now when I write out the check for my premium.

Fuck these worthless pieces of shit. I’d like to say something more intelligent but, honestly, that’s all I’ve got right now.

I don’t know if it’s so much not knowing their holes as not knowing how to speak up when something like that happens. That’s where teaching people about bodily autonomy and consent comes in so that people know that it’s perfectly fine to put a stop to ‘accidental’ butt sex.

My biggest problem is that they’re usually oily and my gallbladder doesn’t care for that. I can do greens with smoked turkey but actual hog maws or salt pork, not so much.

I doubt it. A lot of racist people don’t think that they’re wrong. What makes them upset isn’t the realization that they’re being bigoted assholes, it’s that they got outed as racist assholes. They know that being a bigot isn’t really acceptable right now and that they will have to deal with public…

How hard is it to just say ‘soul food’?