I graduated back in 2011, but I’ve still been living in the area. It’s such a great city! And oh god those brownstones! They had to be my favor place to live, weird servant staircases/hallways and mice included.

Side Note: This whole thing has gotten so fucking ridiculous that conspiracy theorist anti-choice bullshit is backing up local hospital functions. When women miscarry or have stillborn babies, they’re given a choice to bury or cremate the fetus/remains or to allow the hospital to dispose of it for them. Some parents,…

Someone needs to tell Nesenoff & Miltenberg that criticism of one man does not make someone or what they’re saying anti-male. Actually, a lot of people need that reminder. Let's put it on a billboard.

This is all absolutely AMAZING. The tit comment. I need to file that one away for future use.

Also Zinn’s Silber rants must have been amazing, and heaven knows Silber deserved all the criticism he got. Knowing he duked it out with Silber makes me like Zinn even more.

When I was 15, I decided to do my big, final history paper on Rasputin, trying to prove that he was a contributing factor to the Russian Revolution. (I still have no idea if this was a successful or even reasonable argument.) I was looking for a picture to put on the cover page so, like any high school student, I…

ARGH IF ONLY I WENT IN THE 80S. Now even Prof. Wiesel isn't doing classes anymore, and I hadn't even known Asimov taught there! Please tell me you took classes with this trifecta of awesome and can provide us with stories.

I worked for a really long time at the other major book store (soon to rhyme with Bankruptcy) and white middle aged folks were usually the culprits. They were constantly nicking music and porn. The porn they left in the men's bathroom... out of its wrapper... The shop lifter I caught was a rich older white lady. Go…

JEALOUS JEALOUS JEALOUS. Was this at Boston University?

Bless their little, ignorant heart.

I feel like part of it might be the gun control debate?

Additionally, the grandson of Christopher Gadsden, originator of the flag, forced the Seminole Indians out of their homes in Florida and along the Trail of Tears. From Wikipedia: “[James] Gadsden next decided to leave the U.S. Army, and became a planter in…

I will never understand the prevalence of the Confederate flag in random places!! I grew up in a suburban Massachusetts town that made BOSTON newspapers because they were trying to revive the use of the Stars and Bars as a symbol of our football team. I couldn't even. To quote one incredibly stupid high schooler who…

Thank you for posting all this. When people don't have faces to put to the victims, it's easier to dehumanize them or overlook what's happened.

I'm really sad to hear this isn't a good beer... Still tempted to try, but sad.

I’m sorry for your experiences but I would read the HECK out of that!

I grew up in Massachusetts suburbia, which you would presume was fairly liberal. When I was in first grade, I came home crying to my mom because the kids at school had been calling me a “gaylord," and although I didn't know what that meant, I knew it didn't mean anything nice. I guess we had a lot of kids from some…

Rights are not a zero sum game; other people gaining them does not mean you lose them.

I shed a single, awed tear for this post.

Also, kudos to you for giving the bakery manager shit for laying it on the newbie. You are a beautiful person.

I have noooo idea. I went into my artist and he only did a chest tattoo for me because he knows me pretty well by now. I guess he had a buddy who had a female customer request an inner thigh tattoo, then turn around and sue for sexual harassment and win. It's a crazy world out there.

I know my tattoo artist was really hesitant to do chest work on women and upper thigh work on women and men because he's had buddies who were sued for sexual harassment for touching parts of the body their clients specifically requested and signed off on having tattooed. That said—do people honestly sue for tattoo…