I am trying mightily to keep this in perspective. I love her, she's a brilliant woman but she has been subject to decades of skillful indoctrination. That's a root cause, dontcha think? Like that old song from South Pacific, you have to be carefully taught.
But possibly... that's all I want to hear.
Not just people you know and love, but peers and betters in your profession at an event covered by the press. It's ... disgusting.
Well I've got news for people who think that way, cops have first amendment rights too, and we plan to exercise ours. I'd remind the NFL and their players that it is not the violent thugs burning down buildings that buy their advertiser's products. It's cops and the good people of St. Louis and other NFL towns that…
So, let me get this straight: Missori cops want to punish black men for putting their hands up and saying "Don't shoot." Hrm.
Not much of a surprise there. People are going to be assholes.
Or, perhaps they're thankful for you. Perhaps you're awesome. I'd run with it.
A lot of my ESL students wrote that they were thankful for me, and it makes me think I didn't properly explain the meaning of the word thankful. Either that, or my name is one of the only English words they know.
My aunt asked my three year-old son what he was thankful for. After a moment of contemplation, he said, "lots of love." I dropped my fork, and the room was suddenly filled with the sound of a table-full of adult hearts exploding simtaneously :)
This reminds me of my wonderful niece, who, at the age of 4, was explained the reason why Christians celebrate Christmas.
"He's dead. Dead people don't get to have birthdays. This is pointless".
I bet that asshole, Chris Gaines, will be performing in his place.
Yes, racist tendencies are so deeply ingrained in Darren Wilson's mind that he can't even acknowledge them.
False dilemma, no? I believe Bill Cosby raped Janice Dickinson and that part of her motivation for coming forward now is self-promotion.
They ruined 106 and Park when they decided that the gorgeous, bootyful, fabulous Free could actually be replaced by thin, light-skinned female hosts with no actual knowledge of rap and hip-hop..
She looks amazing, but I think she should stop for a second and consider why the photographer chose to portray her as a lubed-up queen standing on a produce box as a pedestal, and rising out of a trash bag that is sitting on the slick alcohol/piss-covered floor of a back alley. Symbolism — it means something.
She's got a point, though. I'm so tired of the commercialism of Susan B. Anthony day, and all the tributes to female presidents in January, and the traditional Equal Pay bonus on February 14.
You know, I have to imagine people had these same conversations over the word "abolitionist" back in the 1850s. "Hey, I believe that EVERYONE has an equal right to not be enslaved but I wouldn't consider myself an abolitionist since all it does is set a dividing line between white people and the coloreds. What does…
Whenever someone tries to have this debate with you, ask them if you can fuck their significant other.