What are you talking about? 

What happens when legacy students get in based on their rich parents’ donations is absolutely straight bribery and fraud.

What happens when legacy students get in based on their rich parents’ donations is absolutely straight bribery and fraud.

“Higher education is a finite resource”

All these guys think they’re the Punisher. I don’t think that comic meant what you think it meant. 

One of my weirdest memories of Pennsylvania public school was sitting down early in my honors social studies class and hearing the preppy kids talking excitedly about the Curse of Ham. On a different day in the same class, they were bragging about how they had used the n-word to psychologically mess with kids from a…

I think the rule is: Jews who support Trump in all things that matter can be counted as honorary whites. Hence Shapiro is worth defending. 

This is a weirdly specific non-sequitir.

I know what it says now, and my primitive brain still makes the same mistake.

“No dining request gets ignored/forgotten more often than a request to hold the mayo.”

While Tlaib was the first to point out that Meadows’ “black friend” ploy was racist, it was her colleague Ayanna Pressley who posed that brilliant “have a black friend and still be racist?” question a little bit later.

Today we associate “liberal” with typical Democratic positions, but I think that’s merging what people distinguish as “economically liberal” vs. “socially liberal.” Back in the 30s Democrats would typically support anti-poverty programs but might also be pretty racist or anti-abortion. Republicans might be more likely…

All sophisticated political commentary since 1980: “Let me explain why this obviously trivial thing is actually really important, and why things that affect your life in obviously important ways are actually trivial.”

At this stage in the 2004 race, Joe Lieberman was the overwhelming favorite. It's gonna be OK.

The Senate was Democratic until 2014.

Yes! He’s fighting, he fought, he’s a fighter! If I spend 40 years fighting and I lose every time, please don’t elect me President and imagine I’ll fix everything by my superior fight skills. I might just be bad at fighting.

As a white progressive man, I have to admit it took me a long time to understand this, which included public embarrassment and very patient explanations from women of color that I didn't want to hear.

“who thinks we don’t need 18 kinds of shoes.”

Now hold on there pardner: Solo has SEVERAL people die to advance the plot. Most movies have only zero or one, but Solo has three. That makes it good.

“no one can really complain about”