He had to know his buddies would try to talk him out of it, why else would he spring it on them. So at some level he knew it was a bad idea.

I assume the ST Louis Cardinals have signed him to a multi-year deal for singing the Canadian National Anthem the White Way. The Cardinal Way

D’oh Canada

He successfully pissed off two countries.

If the Earth were round, Giancarlo Stanton’s dingers would go straight into outer space. Think about it, you guys.

AUTOPILOT IS JUST CRUISE CONTROL. FOR FUCKS SAKE PEOPLE.

As someone who drives (and lives) in Montana, a Montana mountain road seems like a terrible place for Autopilot. Half the time, the roads could be described as theoretical.

are you trying to kill us

How about this excuse: the NRA doesn’t give a shit. They grow their bottom line on spreading fear of black and brown people in white people.

THE 2ND AMENDMENT IS ONLY FOR WHITE PEOPLE.

Yes, people don’t account for how recent it is and how long things like this can affect families/communities, etc. Some things I point out to people. On one side of the family, my grandparents were share-croppers on cotton farms. Black sharecroppers in my grandparents’ time were not slaves of course- but they were not…

Re. The legacy of slavery, it’s worth pointing out that slavery existed in our nation for longer than it hasn’t when you factor in the colonies, and that we’re only 150 years away from the Thirteenth Amendment. That’s two 75 year old grandmas back to back. Our senior citizens are old enough to have known people who…

People can make themselves believe in anything. 20 % of Americans believe that angels are real. Many Germans made themselves believe that their Jewish neighbors were “resettled” in Eastern Europe when the brownshirts came for them, nevermind that Germany was riddled with hundreds of concentration and labor camps.…

I am crying. I cannot get out my head the image of his face as he is fading away. The sadness in his eyes. The expression of “this is how I will die, it is unfair and idiotic”. Poor soul.

I stopped speaking to a co-worker who insists that cops who stay silent aren’t bad cops, they’re victims too. That we the citizens who pay their salaries, should excuse them from doing their jobs, because they fear for their lives and their families. That’s nice ... we do too.

Black Women less at risk of murder by white cops, more at risk of rape and sexual assault by their hands, though. That’s not better.

I read Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me recently, and was struck by his purposeful use of the word body, over and over. To have your body taken away, to have black bodies stolen. That was a strong reminder that this is a violent physical thing that happens to real people, and not some abstract thing from…

As Frank Herbert wrote long ago, fear is indeed the mind killer. Too many brain-dead fools in blue out there.

You said what you needed to say. I saw no rambling.

Thank you Kara for giving words to this sheer sense of anger, sadness and frustration.