You’re right that a large number of Americans do not have undergraduate degrees. My point was more along the lines of — if one is to be considered an “educated” person, they should know the truth of the history of this country, including the history of the oppressed. Not to make white people feel bad, but so they…

... go read a damn book or something

YES! I wish colleges required Americans to take a class on the history of abuses against people of color in this country in order to get an undergraduate degree. Too many people are like, “Well, Slavery was over in 1865 [total lie] and why aren’t they over it yet it’s not like…

In the last decade or so, many, many restaurants have taken to doing To-Go orders. So I just don’t understand why people with small children don’t just order their meals to go and eat and relax at home. Doesn’t that just nip all problems in the bud? If you’re on a road trip that’s different, but if you’re just…

I think I was there, too! I had a headache when I walked in, and it turned into a splitting headache after listening to the almost non-stop screeching. Whatever happened to teaching children about indoor voices and when it’s not okay to be that freakin’ loud?!

And I feel like there are levels of cheating, and if someone is a cereal cheater...

They cheat on their cereal?! Now that’s crossing a line! Unacceptable!

(Sorry, couldn’t resist.)

I may or may not have shared this story here yet or not — I’ve told this story a few times. I still feel compelled to share it because it makes me laugh every time I tell it. Maybe it’s just me.

My friend is a pizza delivery driver for a pizza joint outside the gate of Fort Hood, Texas. And every time there is a…

In the years when this bag was all the rage, I was an Army wife in Kansas and practically every Army wife on post wanted a knock-off LV bag. I didn’t quite get the point. Like these Army wives in the middle of nowhere Kansas were fooling ANYONE pretending they had an LV bag. If you lived in New York, maybe it made…

I honestly don’t care about Camille. I want to know what his DAUGHTERS think about all this.

Many, many, many years ago, when I was a young teenager, there was a news report about people spying on people in fitting rooms with two-way mirrors, and claiming it was to prevent shoplifting. I happened to be at just the age where I was especially insecure about body image and it left me with a life-long paranoia of…

I think it is a very good read. Keeps me interested, doesn’t bog down in statistics, doesn’t drone on and on. However, it is overwhelming and at times really depressing. I had to put it down for several days and come back to it because I needed the time to absorb and get rid of my rage!

I’m reading The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander right now and it goes into this topic in depth.

Absolutely keep your name!!

I took my husband’s name when we married mainly because my name was long and complicated and I didn’t mind giving it up for his simple last name. HOWEVER. I tell any young woman whom I think might listen to me to keep her name. Use his name socially if you so choose, but LEGALLY don’t…

I read the headline and immediately thought it was Bristol Palin’s shotgun wedding!

I will miss him, too, but I’m so excited for him and Michelle. I’m sure they are counting the months (maybe even days and weeks!) until they can get back to having their own life.

Thank you! I’m shocked how many people — even in the media — call him Mr. Obama. They will still call Sarah Palin “Governor” or Gingrich “Mr Speaker” yet call the president “Mr.” So disrespectful. Drives. Me. Nuts.

Wait, threatening to move to Canada? Where gay marriage is legal? To get away from what exactly?

What’s their end game, again? I’m confused.

You realize that the mug is a joke, right? And that the “tears” are from the guys crying over stupid crap like women getting free drinks. The joke isn’t, “We love to make men cry, all men cry, and then LAUGH about it!” So you can get the twist out of your panties, so to speak. I have a similar photo of Republican…

George Clooney swore he’d never marry or consider having kids, either. He even made a famous bet with Michelle Pfeiffer and Nicole Kidman to “prove” how serious he was. And look how that turned out.

I can’t believe how many die-hard childfree people I’ve known who have up and changed their minds after years of swearing…

Really? Because I was convinced she did it even before this report. I doubt she wants to be pregnant more than twice and she, of all people, strikes me as someone who has to have the “perfect” family with the “perfect” boy and girl set of children.

Some people seem to see racism where it doesn’t exist.

And some people are unable to recognize racism if it’s not a burning cross.

The point is more about how white people often tend to dismiss anything that doesn’t offend THEM as “not racist.” (this is true of any privileged group.) It’s not really up to white people…