I'm from Baltimore. I went to high school and culinary school there. I still live in its suburbs. I see the long-lasting effects of Jim Crow every single day just riding the train to DC for work.

Go figure that this country cares more about inanimate objects depicting failed traitors than about real people who died defending civil rights.

In general, I agree with you. But damn, it was so personally satisfying.

As a Baltimore native, please do us all a favor and drown yourself in the Chesapeake.

It's already unmarked, dude. All his relatives are marked in Greemount Cemetery, but not his, and that's the way it should stay.

Why not? We've already got one of Frank Zappa.

The only monument I have ever liked depicting a Confederate was the Maryland one at Gettysburg, with two men wearing Union and Confederate uniforms, supporting one another as they walk. I was at the unveiling of it as a child. We don't need any of this garbage in our state, though, unless it's at Sharpsburg where it…

Fuck it, I cheered seeing a bunch of people pulling down that racist-ass monument in the Carolinas yesterday and watching it crumple like cheap Kleenex. I don't give a shit about it "erasing" the past.

Somewhere my dad just clutched at his chest and doesn't know why.

You can't erase your own sexuality! Jesus christ, what is wrong with people?

I work in the substance abuse and mental health publishing field, and anecdotally, it seems SmartRecovery is a good alternative to AA for a lot of people, if that helps at all?

I'm so sorry to hear that. I have scars on my arms from holding a cigarette lighter to them when I had my first nervous breakdown in college. I just tell people they're cooking accidents, and given how many accidental burns they've seen me give myself in the kitchen, nobody thinks twice about it.

Hey Dan, this lesbian has never in her life ever craved a cock - real or fake - and likes football. Get bent.

My brother and I have joked about picking up girls together before, but lord, we would never actually do it.

Sigh. Sad upvote.

Honestly, I'm about to leave work and I know I'm going to walk out of the office crying about this. I'm just so ashamed of and heartbroken by this country. It isn't the first time I've cried since the election and it won't be the last, but there's very little keeping me from breaking down anymore.

I'm going home to get cripplingly stoned and cry in the shower.

You know the phrase "swallowing your bile"? I never knew what that meant until just this moment, when I had to do so.

Let 'em riot. Just for once, I want to be able to say to white people, "Why do you want to destroy your own property just because you're mad about political events?" the way they always say it to black people since the 1960s.

These goddamn motherfuckers are showing up in literal body armor, with assault weapons, to their protests, but sure. The antifa dudes are the real problem.