It’s interesting, because I just took a look at my birth cert. (1988, Massachusetts), and there’s no mention of race on it at all. I wonder if that’s a thing that’s changed relatively recently in a lot of places.

Cat, are you the Jezebel science writer foretold of in prophecy? The one who actually knows how to write about science? Are we about to be taken up in the feminist Rapture?

Thinks “Jezebel + science, this is going to be a trainwreck.”

Citation is part of education, and therefore evil.

‘Anymore’ for ‘now’ is a confusing one.

Are you a quarterback or other person who throws things around? Maybe she wasn’t being uninformed, but really clever? Probably not.

The Healthcare Games? Isn’t that their idea of a good system?

It’s a legacy of how the Spanish colonizers categorized us racially, with native blood considered impure but redeemable (after a few generations of mixing the native blood with Spanish blood, and again with more Spanish blood to dilute the native blood), while African blood was considered an impurity too deep to…

Considering the first wedding I ever went to was my own, I only have the sweet bridal/groomal hookup story. Which is to say we did it the night before the wedding because we knew the night of we’d be so tired we’d collapse on the bed (and we did). Yeah. Enjoy the boring story, it was an exhausting day.

Name it Obama?

Hard to imagine the news reinforcing a white supremacist narrative. Super, super hard to imagine.

I think you mean Emma, since she’s your site editor. Jessica stepped down. Maybe that’s why she won’t respond - wrong recipient.

Well, actually being the whole prophet and emissary thing will tend to make you re-evaluate your stance on it when it turns out to be legit.

Qué guapos.

My grandfather, giving another soldier a haircut in Vietnam.

And Chuck Grassley. And Branstad.

Dude, your’re doing an MFA. Cite your shit. You make other people doing MFA theses look bad.

So, might work in an extreme corner case in an episode of a television show which makes egregious errors in the depiction of its subject matter. Even better, because it extends my simile perfectly.

Sometimes Iowa does something pleasantly surprising. Good work, Iowa.

I mean, they really think the solution of the problem is to introduce more of the problem. It’s like if doctors decided to fight cancer with more cancer.