The sad thing is that there is a real problem Huckabee is speaking to: There are certain problems and perspectives that don't get attention because they are not happening in places the media focuses on. I live in Texas, yet I knew much more about the race for mayor of NYC than I did the recent race for governor of…

Agreed. Bruce Jenner is a fucking American treasure.

I went to a women's college for my undergrad and it seems to me that what happens when we put women into women's colleges, or black students go to historically black colleges, those institutions produce confident graduates who do great things when they graduate. The people who suffer are the whites/white men who miss…

Thank you! Everyone has been praising Selma ad nauseum, and I've even seen people on Jezebel root for it without having seen it yet. I think it is a fantastic film, and a must-see given this uncannily similar and fraught era in American culture, but it's also a film that is somewhat imperfect and not even close to…

I'll say this to any naysaying or critiques: Little Black girls are ALL about this movie. I was in the theatre to see "The Hobbit", and moms and grannies were there with their charges and their friends and they were happy as pigs in shit to be there. And I was happy for them.

My understanding is that the Kardashians were comfortable but that other than Kim, none had NBA-type income coming in. I think Khloe worked at their clothing store and had a radio show. Lamar Odom was making $11M a year in Dallas just from basketball.

Okay, so I understand that she has made some racist tweets or whatever it was (I don't know the specifics), and she was stupid to have that "slave-master" line (wtf was she thinking?), and that is definitely an important part of the context here. But what, really, is wrong with anything she said? I think she's right…

"Good white people" demonstrate the qualities that all good people demonstrate: kindness, empathy, compassion, thoughtfulness, unconditional love. These are the values I try to instill in my students; that parents try to instill in their children.

it must be v. tiring to have ppl going "oh but you look SO young, i dont feel so comfy 'bout ur sexuality" all the firetrucking time

Well, that makes sense. People with assets of $1 million or more are most certainly wealthy, but in that income bracket, a number of the respondents are going to be lawyers, bankers, doctors, and other members of the professional classes - exactly the sort of educated, socially liberal or moderate people the GOP has…

A feel-good anecdote, with regards to getting married because you're knocked up:

This. And Black Friday sales targeting middle class and up are a completely different animal. I worked in a high end shopping center in a mid-high end boutique and we opened on Black Friday one hour early (so 9 instead of 10). No Thanksgiving night, or overnight shifts, shifts were regular length and you got all your…

I'm with you...Peter Pan WAS the defining story of my childhood. I didn't see The Sound of Music until...actually, I don't think I've ever seen it the entire way through. I wore out my PetEr Pan VHS tape, though.

It used to be played on TV every Christmas season the same way Wizard of Oz is, so maybe that?

I don't really feel any sense of outrage when it comes to alcohol markups. Yes, the physical product is heavily marked up. But the restaurant also has to pay for initial an ongoing training for wine/cocktail programs and pay to absorb liability costs. Plus, you know, all of the other costs associated with running a…

Black woman here. It would seem rather forced, IMO, to shoehorn a "minority friend" into their clique.

Yep. I never travelled before/during/after college because I could never afford it. Eight years of undergrad and professional school later, I have a job that pays very well. But I still could never afford to just take a huge chunk of time off, because almost a third of my paycheck is going to student loan payments.…

I've been there. Done the long distance, then the move, and loaded up with insecurities and confusion along the way. My advice? Throw yourself into your new city. Obviously you work a lot, but one thing I've found in these relationships is that you work so hard to make the relationship work that you don't take time…

The engraved gift is such a miniscule thing to focus on but I understand why you're doing it. In the scheme of things it is nothing but it gives you this connection to him that you're hesitant to sever. I was also embarrassed to break-up because it was like, "j/k we're not getting married after all" and "yeah, turns…

No real advice, but here's my kitten asleep on my hand: