YES! More gold stars for me!
People can say whatever they want about her. Her smile always makes me smile.
featuring several of your favorite musicians and Ed Sheeran.
Yes, yes - but who was the model for early sapphic hero George?
I feel embarrassed to buy them now! Like I need to loudly proclaim that, "Actually, I need these for pickles! And jam! And other purposes for which they are intended! I am not a hipster" as I am purchasing them. Oddly, this does not make me feel less embarrassed.
Korematsu is regarded as one of the worst decisions in our history, alongside such shining lights as Dred Scott and Plessy v. Ferguson. The idea that anybody could still express support for the camps it allowed is disgusting.
I already bought ALL of them. You can buy them back from me....10 dollars a jar.
NOBODY BUY MASON JARS. YOU’RE DRIVING UP THE PRICE AND I NEED THEM FOR CANNING PURPOSES.
George Takei (who was sent to an internment camp with his family) has written an eloquent response. It’s much more polite than one would expect given the circumstances.
Well I mean, we did find all of those Japanese spies when they put them into internment camps
Oh right I forgot about how internment camps somehow helped the allies and weren’t a national disgrace and embarrassment from one of our more effective presidents.
Wut. You guys. Like, really—wut.
To my chagrin I thought it might come up as an argument *against* this dumb idea, not *for* it.
Agreed! I also think there’s a tendency to paint Katniss as this hero with superhuman resilience when she is really just a (very strong) young woman forced beyond the breaking point.
I didn’t like it at first, but the more I thought about it and read about it, I understood what Collins was trying to do and how I’d misunderstood the themes of the stories ‘cause I’d whipped through them so fast. In retrospect I completely agree with you; it’s the only ending that makes sense for the series, and the…
It seems like I’m a minority opinion, but I really liked the ending of Mockingjay. How else could it have ended while staying true to the reality of the whole series? It honestly seemed as optimistic as possible to me. What else could Katniss do, other than survive, tenuously, with the only person who had suffered as…