Oh man I was famous for this back in college.

My favorite was my freshman year. It was the last day of class and I was talking with this cute girl that always partnered with me. I asked her some insignificant question like what her grade was on some test or something. She misheard me and answered with her phone number.…

Exactly. How many people would be willing to start new businesses if they didn’t have to worry about keeping their health insurance or paying for new employees’ insurance? How much more fluid could the job market be if people weren’t terrified of losing coverage?

I’m a bit disheartened by the negative comments on here. Madeline went into this with a healthy dose of skepticism and doubt (and left with equally healthy doses of both..) But it sounds like she also clearly experienced a deep release and relief of an anxiety that has plagued her for years. That sounds invaluable to…

I thought Elle Reeve did an all right job in what was surely a deeply discomforting experience, but I think she had a misstep pretty early on in the piece that a reporter who was a POC probably wouldn’t have made (of course, they may also not have had the access). I don’t remember the precise moment, but Cantwell was…

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If you invented technology where you can tell who is and who isn’t a real car buff captured by drone footage, then congrats, you will be a billionaire.

Pearl, here: The space of which I speak is between caste and class. It, indeed, exists. I applauded her acknowledgement of that space and you seem to suggest even mentioning it offers absolution to those who would ignore racial inequities. I get geeked out when reading Margo Jefferson’s Negroland, a memoir on an…

Yo guy, next time just drop the racist dog-whistles and go for it man. Lots of your Jalop bros will have your back, especially with the attitude you seem to be displaying.

Brown people: shitty neighborhood, stolen cars.

How about a civil war hero like Mary Elizabeth Bowser, who was a free black woman who was a spy for the union, posed as a slave and worked in Jefferson Davis’ household? She was a key figure because she shared confederate military plans/strategy with union military figures. Davis knew there was a leak/spy but never…

One of my undergrad degrees is in Theatre Arts. It’s not crazy challenging, but it’s not the cake walk that people assume that it is. Really, no degree is a complete cake walk. You have to show up and put in a modicum of focused work and show commitment to a goal. Also- let’s take it easy on the idea that people…

during lunch today,

Sara, sweetie, because of your courage in talking about this and because of this little girl’s courage to go and get help (instead of just shaving her head in pain at home), I’m going to share my story too. So fewer of us can feel alone. And I’ll tell the whole truth because fuck it.

I’ve lived with pretty severe bipolar disorder I since I was 14 (diagnosed only at age 28, but the symptoms set in far, far earlier than that). I know the pain of being so depressed you can’t get out of bed for days at a time, so much that even the thought of showering is too exhausting to accomplish. I know how it…

Hopefully the baby got her chin.

And yes, it’s a big deal to see us reflected in media. I look at all the little kids for who Star Wars: The Force Awakens is their first dip into that fandom and who WON’T consider it weird to see a Black Man, a White Woman and Latino Guy in space doing cool shit and being heroic. Because they’ll have grown up with…