It’s really nice knowing we (his step kids) don’t need to be afraid of failure. There is no punishment (by which I mean criticism, I guess) for failing, only for not doing your best and for giving up. My sister didn’t get her first option for university - so she worked for a bit, reapplied to a new place, got in…

Oh yeah :/ My step-father failed high school - flunked out with a pathetic score. He worked for several years, and ended up at a bank, where they sent him to do an accounting course. He transfered from that into Arts, after getting high enough grades, then from that did Honours, then a Masters, then got his PhD. He…

From a park ranger: please, please, please know your limits. My friends had to rescue a 400-lb man out of the bottom of a 90 degree canyon today. It’s not that I don’t want you to go out and experience new things, but you’ve got to know when to stop. At the first sign that you’re out of your depth or feeling even just…

Yeah i too think the real problem driving Trump supporters is racism against white people.

Tell me more.

The people who cast him as a hero are the same ones who love Holden caufield.

I remember when my English teacher assigned this book in high school. When she asked my my opinion, I was suspiciously quiet that day. I said, this whole book was just some real white people shit.

I’ve maintained this since reading the book in high school: Christopher McCandless was a stupid, naive, unprepared dink who thought he could piss in Nature’s face and get away with it. He got lucky a few times, but sooner or later if you don't respect Nature it will kill you dead.

Only a Becky would leave a comment like this.

This whole piece, and especially that quote, really struck a chord with me. I grew up in a working class family and attended an elementary school in a predominately black and Latino neighborhood in Los Angeles. I earned a scholarship for all four years to a prestigious, private all girls high school. During my time…

100% agreed.

My college entrance essays were Star Trek fanfic. Really.

You had me at “Becky with the bad grades”

If the US said, “if you give us Austin and Dallas, the rest of the state can leave the US.” I’d leave Houston and move to Austin and be happy. All the rural, gun nut confederates can keep the rest of Texas.

I’m from Massachusetts, and we’re really sorry for giving the nation this guy.

Clinton/Warren 2016!

I don’t know why I’m ever surprised to find out that white people in 2016 think that non-white people, especially Black people, are simply handed things for being their race. Here are the things that I am supposed to get for being Black:

I’m just happy Downing Street doesn’t have an official pet pig.