She wore a prosthetic nose to play a darker-skinned Black woman.

Also a problem with the way history is taught is how we center white people and institutions as solving America’s racial injustices. Shit like “Lincoln freed the slaves” and “the Supreme Court ended segregation in schools.” 

In her newsletter Smart Mouth, Katherine Spiers, the former food editor at L.A. Weekly, provided an explanation for poor food reporting from an editor’s point of view. Most publications, she writes, are understaffed and rely heavily on freelancers to meet their publication quotas. The editors are often too overworked…

This is something that tends to be overlooked in reporting about “artisanal” food, farmer’s markets, etc. — a major reason for the rise of processed, packaged foods in the first place was health concerns. (This is mentioned in passing in The Music Man of all places: “The Uneeda Biscuit in an air-tight sanitary package…

Better yet, use real maple syrup. Real maple syrup was a product championed by quakers and abolitionists as a slavery-free form of sweetener (sugar plantations used slaves).

Interesting how racial stereotypes have no meaning when you do not have the contexts of 400 years of oppression of Black people.

I’d like to imagine this arrest leading to a trial that would expose all the failings that led to the absurd death toll, but, given the quality of the Japanese justice system, I’m not expecting much.

I know, right? A man can only say, “I’ll be in my bunk,” so many times in a day!

That reminds me, whatever happened to Boxxy?

That number seems high, but this source has the mortality rate for ventilated covid-19 patients as being at least 2/3: https://www.jwatch.org/fw116475/2020/03/22/covid-19-outcomes-detailed-among-critically-ill-us And I’m pretty sure I heard a BBC World report in the last day or so that said the mortality rate was as…

I’m assuming that ranking Civ II last is some sort of attempt to make this post go viral for the sheer wrongheadness of it....

What airline would show this for an in-flight movie?!?!

I don’t know that it’s been the subject of a straight up horror movie since Signs

Yeah, when I saw that photo, the “Bow-chicka-wow-wow” music suddenly kicked in.

It’s not the staging that most of us have issue with. It’s that calling for his head from members of the right wing that many of us have issues for. To me, it’s clear he committed some sort of crime. However, the crime doesn’t seem very important or really worth so much attention.

“Nothing will blend in like a white guy driving around in a large American vehicle.”- CIA

This is about trademarks, not copyrights. You can absolutely trademark a common word, although you can be at greater risk of it later being found unenforceable or being rendered generic.

Yes, sorry.