I thought he devoted a fair amount of time to the Negro Leagues. I also felt Jazz was an accurate portrayal of African Americans’ creation of the art, and the tribulations they encountered. The Central Park Five was very influential in the accused getting a settlement from the city of New York. I haven’t seen the one…

hey you can be really smart AND love the real housewives

I can’t believe I’m defending Leonardo DiCaprio, as I love mocking him as much as the next person, but there is a weird obsession in the media with his dating life. Who cares if he’s into young supermodels? He’s the one that has to endure conversations and listen to Mark Anthony with them, not us.

“...prostitutes, professional criminals, and synthetic drug dealers are pretty standard knowledge for most Florida fifth graders.”

On the other hand, it has a top down administration with an established mechanism for instituting widespread change immediately.

But the Church, like politics, is local. Meaning, this document is reflective of what has been happening at the local level (at least in New York City).

One of the reasons, I like Kristen Dunst. I know a lot of people didn’t like that movie but I particularly love it. It just beautiful.

Wow. My son’s middle name is a surname that you’d never ever want to call a kid by because it was his dad’s and granddad’s and great-granddad’s middle name, and his great-great-grandmother’s maiden name. My brother’s is also a surname for similar reasons. Using a family name/conglomeration of family names in the…

Yep. But I also feel awful for him because he must have so much internalized self-hatred.

Former speaker Dennis Hastert made his opinions clear on LGBT rights in the past when he tried to ratify a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage.

She has a foundation called the Laura Bush Foundation and it does work with libraries and librarians. Her foundation funded a grant for American Indians to study to be librarians. I was selected to take part and got my library education completely funded by her.

Laura Bush paid for my library degree so I'm grateful to her.

Yeah, if we start judging people based on our modern ethics then pretty soon we’ll end up unable to celebrate anyone born before 1960 or something.

Right? Wilson’s 14 points are hugely important to the history of diplomacy and international relations.

The thing that really bothers me about these scenarios is that the police just treat children like an adult when that obviously not the case. The kid wasn’t complying? Fine. I worked in mental health with teenage girls and fights broke out nearly daily a lot of the time. We could never body slam a kid and if we did,…

I’m with you. Society and its norms evolve over time. There are many horrible things in the past that were considered normal at the time. While I am glad that certain racist icons (like the Confederate flag, for example) are finally being recognized and removed from places of prominence, I don’t think that we can or…

The plaque is a nice gesture and starting place. IDK how I feel about all the renaming of things, though. Certainly some people should have no monuments, but it’s tricky with former presidents. If the standard for removal is owned/supported slaves/slavery or participated in segregation...a whole lot of things will…

Can we swap this guy for another 15 or so years of Merle Haggard? 2016 Grim Reaper???

A little bit about how drug laws work in CA:

Okay. Another liberal article whining about African Americans being jailed at a higher rate. UGH! The prison system isn’t as bad as everyone is making it out to be! They HELP people learn and change and grow.