“We don’t need any more activist athletes,”

Exactly this. They set Christina up as the one who could actually sing. Her sexy image didn’t really come until later. They had similar sexy blonde next door personas in the beginning. Cute blonde girls singing innuendo laden songs. Brittney’s voice was very good in her youth, as old videos show, but they had her…

Until you see the teeth. Although maybe they both just have a thing for badly-fitting dentures.

“Black women have a larger platform than ever to express their grievances, to be a persistent thorn in the side of those who want them to sit down, shut up, and be thankful for their Americanness, as if it protects us the way it does our white counterparts.” —-

I remember when my childhood neighbours visited the US, and went to a baseball game. People gave them dirty looks because they didn’t stand for the anthem, even after they explained that they are British.

It’s also kind of funny to think that this means the Founding Fathers were unamerican by their standards. ;-)

Spoiler alert: there never was any help on the horizon for caregivers in America. Nobody cares. We get to soldier on alone, watching our earning potential dwindle (and, in my case, whatever remained of my fertile years).

Finally!!!!  I’ve been saying the Pattinson/Stewart thing forever!  I don’t doubt that they were great friends and helped each other through the whirlwind of sudden superstardom, but their ‘romance’ was always fake.  Couples don’t break up and then suddenly reconcile conveniently at the same time it’s time to promote…

Ah yes, because one can’t be interested in sports without also sucking off the American flag. Good for her. They bring politics into these games by making every fucking game* a political stunt, then get their panties in a bunch when someone refuses to play along.

*For the non-Americans, yes every game. You can’t go to…

The timing was incredibly suspicious. I’ve never seen a meet of that size be off by 5 minutes, especially that early in the competition (smaller meets are a goddamn crapshoot though).

I forgot about the virgin stuff!

“The entire point of the Olympic team is to represent the United States of America. That’s the entire point.”

The press pushed Christina as the “voice”, the girl with the “talent” and singing chops who was a rebel. Meanwhile, Britney was pushed as the “production”, without a great voice who could be the face of a production team that determined what the next big hit would be. Initially she was the sexy girl next door that can…

Law enforcement continues to shit their pants any time someone does something even vaguely threatening.

Well they made sure the boss could see everyone sitting at their home office desk “doing work” which is the reason for the vast majority of work at home meetings and shit. I am very lucky to be in a job with a management team who believes that the key success marker is the job getting done well and on time but that is…

No shit. If the cops are that jumpy they need to be in another line of work.

Traffic stops should not receive the death penalty.  

He knows who they are.  He knows he needs them. And he knows they won’t care that he called them trailer trash.  A large swath of this country is made of morons and that’s been no better highlighted than the previous 5 years.  

DO NOT CHALLENGE MY LIVED EXPERIENCE lol

I’ve worked at nonprofits and private sector orgs about the same amount of time over my 30 years of working and nonprofits easily win the “waste of time” meeting award.

Did any of your private sector jobs start a weekly staff meeting with poorly facilitated “check-ins” by every…

The former president’s response to the Capitol attack—which he reported watched on television—consisted mostly of “puzzlement,” according to Wolff. Trump is said to have openly wondered “who these people were with their low-rent ‘trailer camp’ bearing and their ‘get-ups.’”