I’m only 1/4 Italian, but grew up around my mother’s (italian and spanish) side of the family. One time, in my 20's, I had this enormous crush on a guy friend who was first-generation Italian. One night I was talking to my aunt (who is married to a 1st generation dude) about him and she was like you gotta watch out…

Italian American here - my family is as typical as it gets. In fact, I think you and Iare related based on your story. I’m happy I married a half puerto rican half Italian. He cooks!! Just like HIS DAD! And he does his own laundry! I also may have found a unicorn. (Nothing against you but I’m throwing up the horns to…

Replace Italian with Portuguese and that was me at 14 announcing to my family it was not ever going to happen. The men in my family aren’t even bad compared to the other Portuguese families I grew up with and my stepdad’s nephew and his family. His wife could take him, I don’t know why she puts up with it.

This judge is well-known and beloved for being extremely fair.

Then how are you still typing? WITCH!!! :)

Your divisive framing aside, as a historian I understand the concern about presentism, and what standards apply when evaluating people from the past. But you’re acting like there weren’t people in Sim’s own time who believed that what he was doing was wrong. There were, millions of them, black and white, they were…

I think the AssCons are expecting a racist narrative of loud, abundant speech with wild gesturing. Their unexamined opinions flow from a larger culture of strict categorization and expectations. That’s what led the officer to put a bullet in a cooperating civilian.

Right?! My first thought was “...she’s the SPEECH WRITER???”

I think my life goal as an academic is to have a crazy republican call my work garbage and publicly throw it away. It would be the greatest compliment.

I think banning Caillou is just basic suicide prevention.

I knew some of the animators who worked on the show - they pretty much universally hated it. Then there were the endless debates about what the hell was going on in the various episodes. (Is he six or seven, and old enough to go walk around the block by himself? if so, why does he not have hair? Is he a cancer…

I will say, it’s not nearly as hard as they make it out to be! As long as you actually do keep a consistent schedule and do a ton of practice questions, you should honestly be fine :)

To paraphrase Krugman on Gingrich: "She's the White person's idea of what a Black person sounds like."

“I didn’t find it oily”.

Thanks, I’m really excited and nervous and will likely barf my first day. But I took some time off too and I’m 30 now. It’ll be a difficult transition for me too, I’ve been working full time and am making pretty decent money with a good job. So in the back of my mind I kept thinking “wait, we’re starting over again?”…

HAhahahaha, thanks for posting this. I start Law School in August, and have already received one legally blonde joke from my boyfriends family. I know it will be immensely difficult, but this still made me laugh and feel better so thanks :)

I’m a dietitian in long term care and I’m like “Feed them butter sandwiches and milkshakes five times a day if that’s what they want. Just get them to eat!” Way better than lecturing someone on carb counting.

That was so well said. Thank you!

Exactly. Plus, if a cop IS injured or killed in the line of duty and the perpetrator is caught, there is not a chance in Hell that that perpetrator will not face justice. On the other hand, black people apparently have to accept that there will almost never be consequences for being killed by a cop.

I’m not from ‘round here, and some friends from back home said “Why is no one trying to help him? Not the cop, not the girlfriend?” and “How does she have the presence of mind to start live streaming on facebook?”