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Portland Oregon was named after Portland Maine. That argument of yours is invalid. As far as the rest, I wonder if the city is freaking out, like so many of the cities in Maine that because of a weak Canadian dollar, tourism is down. I'm not saying it's right but it seems to be particularly fraught time here…

portland doing something good accidentally feels really accurate.

If this class is anything like every single college class I was in, nobody is getting extra credit here.

Most people don’t know—as with most small companies that get bought out, the general populace doesn’t realize it. The big companies change ingredients and lower quality standards betting that the general public will never know, and they are usually right. I work for a small organic grocery store and we try to keep up…

Very white hispanic here. That would’ve been super awkward. I would’ve replied in Spanish with some insults here and there and then asked her if I was hispanic enough now

A few weeks ago, my sister thought it was a good idea to joke that she didn’t want me to go to her college’s Latino graduation dinner, because I look too white. :(

she’s racist. who is she to decide what a hispanic person looks like? so what, she wanted the student to put on dark make up and change her hair, just like her? disgusting.

I'm Native American and very light skinned. My mom is light while my dad is darker. Both my mom and I have gotten comments about not looking Native enough. Someone once said to my mother she could pass as white. She was not happy to say the least. It is a punch in the gut to hear someone say I don't like Native.

I don’t even know what to DO with this whole situation. It’s so mindbogglingly bizarre that I can’t even wrap my head around it.

Women and babies dying of natural childbirth at astonishing rates is also natural.

I’d really like the Juliette dress in something other than latex. It’s cute.

Well the obvious solution is to spin off a separate dudebro chain called Kenny Kumquat. Or do we want to ditch the citrus theme in favor of something more phallic like Andy Banana?

Correction: Hockey is awesome.

can we just leave hockey out of this?

Just to provide a little context of why a mayor would be so pissed about getting rid of the income tax: for LePage to do this (and seem anti-tax), he had to get rid of Maine’s revenue sharing, in which the state gives all municipalities cash to help subsidize the costs of schools, infrastructure, etc. However, by…

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single-eyed man in possession of a covert agency, must be in want of an Initiative.

The Kanye no, but peas? PEAS? Man, you're doing this whole 'living' thing wrong.

I'm ready for the hate coming my way, but I chose Netflix.

I love this one even more than the previous manicure (the pink and glitter)!