I was an amateur olympic-style weightlifter with a clear path to nationals ahead of me. I got COVID last spring and it was hell. The absolute sickest and most frightening experience of my life.

I survived and did not need hospitalization, which, in the jargon of COVID means I had a “mild case.” I did, however, wind up…

Yeah, sorry, I don’t give a shit about your feelings in the face of a public health crisis the likes of which we’ve never seen in our lifetime. Priorities.

If a 19-year-old white boy can shoot up a school and be taken in alive, then why can’t the same be done when it’s a 16-year-old Black girl with a knife?

I agree. There are plenty of cases we can point to as examples of police being trigger happy and badly in need of an overhaul to our criminal justice system. This isn’t one of them.

There was no time for the officer to have chosen another course such as pulling his baton and disarming the the young women instead before at least one stab if not more. I do believe that officers choose to shoot way to often out of too much fear that has been trained into them. However, in this situation no option…

If you hate someone due to their race or ethnicity then, guess what, you are absolutely a racist.  Enjoy your hypocrisy.  

Great! I guess all the no fly lists and extra security checks Arab-Americans endured after 9-11 wasn’t racial profiling after all. They’ll be so relieved.

Authorities on Tuesday identified the suspect in the shooting deaths of 10 people at a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, as 21-year-old Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, whose brother said he was deeply disturbed.

No, those are things you do need police for. You can’t let citizens pull over reckless or drunk drivers. The fact that the police can’t pull over every reckless or drunk driver doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be their job. Furthermore, perhaps if police are less busy busting people over drug possession or getting called in…

Because I support defunding the police, not fully abolishing the police, but many people when they hear “defund” they think “abolish”. What do you think the GOP means when they talk about defunding planned parenthood or ACA or whatever? 

I’m sure calling a social worker will make all the difference when someone enters my home at 3AM.

So who is Obama’s lecture for?

Obama is right.

A lot of the “cruel and unusual!” people would likely have a different take were it their parents who were stabbed 60+ times with a bayonet, were it their father’s body who had words carved into it, and were it their mother’s blood that drug-addled nuts wrote on the walls with.

I mean, I don’t believe she has ever really taken responsibility for her actions and demonstrated that she understands that she was at fault for what she did. I’ve read plenty of what she’s said over the years regarding her involvement in the murders of the LaBiancas. “It was Manson, it was acid, it was the drugs, I…

Sometimes I feel like a significant portion of the American people have Oppositional Defiant Disorder. Wearing masks is common sense and effective, but the second that people think they are being forced they will dig in their heels. If it had been framed as heroic and patriotic at the start( like during WWII and…

The problem is that the article implies that the affection for fall has its roots in an idealized white femininity versus oh, I don’t know, the harvest, a period of moderate temps and plentiful food in between the extremes of summer and winter, the fact that fall foliage is objectively beautiful...

Yeah, I work with factories in China that were recently closed for their mid-Autumn festival. Used to work for two different companies owned by modern orthodox Jewish families of Syrian descent that closed offices for two days for Sukkot every year. If you think an appreciation for fall, even going so far as to…

I’m sorry. I don’t think actual white supremacists are running around shouting, “I love fall, because it reminds me of the way things used to be.” That’s incredibly Amerocentric. The French, Japanese, Fins all love fall as well.

Oh Americans...I didn’t realize that I shouldn’t enjoy Fall or Autumn as it’s known everywhere outside of north America because of basic bitches, PSL or a racist American holiday. The change of seasons is often a blessing. No more oppressive heat, excuse to wear more comfortable clothes, the weather is better, the…