That’s so pathetic and I’d love to ask them what their idea of “Irish culture” involves. I bet it has something to do with green beer.

Yeah, that’s really dialed down the schadenfreude this lesbian shitass would otherwise be feeling right now.

I don’t think that’s why she used it, I think it’s a reference to Zawaideh and her story.

This is so not the experience I’ve seen in Irish genealogical circles - it’s almost *never* Mayo. My granddad’s family is Irish - I think I’m ok saying this because his surname is a fairly obviously Irish one and were he still living, he’d even qualify for citizenship - and my grandmother told me years ago before I…

Yeah, I’ve seen this too. There’s an entire neighborhood in my granddad’s hometown that’s named after Donegal because at one time it was populated nearly entirely by Irish who came from there. His grandmother came there from Dublin, because she had an uncle who was already living there. Also, that’s the exact same…

Shhh, let them all get flu and die, it’ll make defending our reproductive rights that much easier.

Marzipan is perfect, how dare you.

I was just reading a book where this was mentioned in passing as one of the incidents that led up to the founding of Rock Against Racism but no further detail on what he did was given so uh... well, at least now I know what that was all about. I wasn’t alive at the time and had never heard about it.

Yep. They’re so obvious. I was talking about it on the phone earlier to my mom and suggested they start using the phrase “fertilized ovum”. Take that, Trump administration! We’ll just come up with ways to make a fetus sound even *less* babylike!

I’m gonna have to point out a tiny correction here - the oldest living WWII vet actually lives in Austin, Texas and is a 111 year old black man named Richard Overton. He’s a local celebrity here - deservedly so.

I’m almost relieved he didn’t say things are coming out of our wherevers. This time.

So when he says Jones is bad on crime, he’s really saying he doesn’t believe KKK members should have been successfully prosecuted by Jones for murdering four little girls in a Birmingham church? ’Kay. Hope he chokes on his dry turkey and ketchup Thursday.

I’m not familiar with Zinzi Clemmons, but I’m definitely going to check her work out. This was a much needed call out, I honestly don’t get why Lena Dunham is handed so many do-overs every single time she fucks up and does/says something shitty.

I really liked the dog one too. There’s such an old tradition of folklore throughout the British Isles involving the giant black ghost dog as a harbinger of death or a departing soul’s escort.

Very true! I haven’t had one in years, not since I was in college and I can definitely see in retrospect how the stress of school and living on my own for the first time in my life probably contributed to the few episodes I had.

Yeah, I’d agree with that. I’ve had an episode or two of it when I was younger, fortunately without the creepy visuals because I’ve never been a very visual dreamer, but the inability to move or open my eyes and the feeling of something weighing you down - yup. I also usually felt what I interpreted as hands on my…

I texted the news to my mom last night because I couldn’t bring myself to be the one to tell my dad directly. Tom Petty was one of his all-time favorite musicians.

He’s a Golgotha.

As a dues-paying member of the alumni association, I’d be more than happy to lead the charge here in Austin to get this asshole fired from my alma mater.

And none of that was her own idea, it was all suggested by the head of Fox studios at the time, Harry Cohn. He also convinced her to get electrolysis on her hairline to raise it and make her look less Mediterranean.