Call me a cynic, but if Jim Crow laws do find their way back onto the table of American policy, I wonder if there will be some centrist Dems shrugging their shoulders, and saying,
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Remember Donald Sterling? I recall he made one remark likening himself to a plantation owner and the players his “labor” and that really stands out as a remark when I see Adam Silver’s memo with that warning of his.
Do not tell me children have more rights than black adults.
How can it be legal to force an employee to stand for the National Anthem? There were Jehovah’s Witnesses kids in my grade school who sat through the Pledge of Allegiance, for Pete’s sake. Do not tell me children have more rights than black adults.
“No word on what the penalty is if the rule is broken.”
How do you boil a frog? By slowly turning up the heat. That analogy comes to mind when I read this.
When I was pregnant for the 4th time (1 living kid and 2 miscarriages at that point), I would tell my husband on the way to every doctor’s appointment “don’t get your hopes up, this probably won’t end well.” At some point when it was clear that pregnancy was sticking around he said “can I get my hopes up now?” The…
Yea, not to brag, but I provide a pretty good life for myself as a single gal. I bring in a decent income, have a vehicle I like, I can rent a nice apartment, I have my own Netflix account, I can buy myself stacks and stacks of books to read in peace and quiet, and I never have to clean up after someone who isn’t me…
I watched the documentary on HBO I think it was. This girl has some serious mental health problems, as her father is a schizophrenic, she should be in a hospital not prison.
And then the breakdown in the car after she finds out her necklace is fake and realizes Judah didn’t tell her about the offer from VIM. Like, that’s how it happens, at least for me. Infertility stuff happens and I’m fine, but it all comes out once something else bad happens.
I loved how when she gets the news from the doctor, she doesn’t break down and cry or act devastated, she just sort of accepts it. I knew then, even before she reveals later that that was her 5th miscarriage, that it was something she’d experienced multiple times. That’s what it feels like - you can’t help but get…
I don’t watch this show, but the realness of this scenario choked me up. Sixteen years ago my daughter was stillborn at full-term and some of my most comforting “memories” are the moments where I am feeling broken by the loss and I put her back into my narrative. I see her in the passenger seat of my car as I drive,…
Over a year after my miscarriage, I was at a 2 year-olds b-day party. The second half of the party was to be spent at a children’s museum that doesn’t allow non-parents to enter (for understandable safety reasons). I didn’t know that, and I mentioned to my friend “oh, are we going to the museum too?” and her mom said…
The way the narrative was framed, with one of her future descendants narrating the episode, and then to find out it was figment of PC’s imagination, that she invented to comfort herself during a time of stress was so fucking heartbreaking. I think we all have these imaginary scenarios that work as coping mechanisms…
It is true, I have been scouring antique markets and yard sales for months now in search of an old laudanum bottle that actually says “LAUDANUM” right on it. I plan to cork it and swig from it occasionally in public. The hipsters can have their mason jars, I want a laudanum bottle.
The nice thing about outhouses is that they are also often full of secrets. Drinking liquor in a dry town? Throw those empties in the outhouse! Reading naughty literature? Down the hatcheroo! (And yes, sometime we find well-preserved paper and textiles in privy deposits that were used for...reasons).
This is a thing; people used to routinely throw trash in the outhouse.
I live in an older New England home, and the amount of junk we’ve found buried around our house is ridiculous. Old clothes irons, an entire locking mechanism for a door, broken china, etc.
The show is really good! And it shares a lot with Bojack. So imagine if a bunch of men went around saying “I’m proud to be like Bojack!” and quizzing women about Horsin’ Around episode titles and sending death threats to Lisa Hanawalt. You’d probably be really mad at those men!