First addition to the 2016 list of Sheroes. I found this point really interesting: “the $1.4 million awarded to Dent could’ve been better spent properly preparing officers to serve and protect.”I’ve heard people ask before why the rising price of lawsuits from wrongful death suits wasn’t preventing police violence. I…

I read somewhere - and I think this is true - that against white people the only word that carries the perjorative impact of racist epithets like TheNWord is in fact, RACIST.

Highly recommend Discworld. Terry Pratchett is somewhat responsible for making me a humanist, or at the very least teaching me valuable lessons.

You have to. Discworld is one of my favourite series every. TP passing away last year was just the worst.

Ah, I stand corrected; they’ve fallen out of fashion in my family. I watched a doc about food in the renaissance and they read out some mincemeat pie recipes from hundreds of years ago. They had EVERYTHING in them- meat, nuts, fruit, spices, etc. It was all the very most expensive ingredients of the day and were a…

Collards are truly amazing. I kind of prefer the taste of mustard greens, but collards are great for cooking southern-style because their leaves are sturdier. Grits are also amazing, but only if they have cheese. It’s cheese grits or nothing.

True speak, I’ve never has collard greens! I’m from Canada but I tried grits for the first time. What. Have. I. Been. Missing. So I am on a quest to find authentic collard greens. They sound great. As are grits!

I’m not even sure they won the battle. Not only did they lose their case, but the court decided THEY were the criminals. They came off looking like total dumbasses. I can’t believe their lawyers are trying to call them whistleblowers...they didn’t blow the whistle on anything! The videos didn’t reveal any misconduct.…

I stand by my assessment of them being garbage people- a term I’ve been using since way before I started posting on kinja. I believe new Daria’s was still running on MTV when I started saying garbage people.

Alas, DNA testing is not so advanced. I do not know where my North African ancestors were from exactly in the region; and am so eager to ascertain! But there are not sufficient haplotypes in the database to pinpoint.

“Whoever wins, we lose.”

I’ve always wondered where this idea comes from that lawsuits are (a) easy to file, and (b) usually baseless. Having worked for a personal injury law firm, I can assure you that it’s difficult to find a lawyer who will take a baseless claim. We rejected people with demonstrably legitimate claims all the time just…

Why aren’t more people concerned about child molestation? Animal abuse? Starvation? Cancer? Anti-vaxxers? Nuclear bombs? 500 Days of Kristin?

I always feel like I’m overshadowed by the Lauren B.s and the Beccas

Why does it seem to be universally accepted that when a police officer commits a felony there is no thought of prosecuting him/her. People seem to believe it’s enough punishment by them simply losing their job. WTF? You or I would have definitely been charged with assault& battery, attempted homicide, and some sort of…

I hate him but I can’t see him opening for Snow in 2016.

Yea he does. I only like pre Lil Wayne affiliation Drake. Like circa 2008 or so. Even then though I cant take him seriously because when I look at him all I can think of is Degrassi.

YES. Kinda like, “We won’t recognize you, but you can help us while we recognize ourselves!!” Like I said in another post, someone seriously needs to pull a Marlo Brando on this shit. (Sorry for double posting the video, but, like, it is amazing).

It may be a bit of the black thing, but it's also a bit of the LeBron thing. You look at Cam or LeBron and you know you can never be them—and never have that kind of physique. Even other professional athletes are somewhat in awe of athletes like LeBron, and to lesser extent Cam. It's why Russell Wilson and Steph…

The Moon thing is interesting, especially for people who would rather not believe this sort of color-blocking exists (now or ever). My father went through it. While I have no idea and cast no aspersions as to whether he was actually good enough to warrant consideration as a QB, his story is that he wasn’t even given…