I used to buy Reggae records from West Indian shops in West Phila in the early ‘80’s, when I was really young, really tall, really pale, and skinny. I’m still tall and pale.

1985

You can’t appropriate something that’s being marketed to you for purchase. Hip-hop simply isn’t the exclusive province of American blacks anymore. It’s been exported worldwide. You can go to 100% white town in rural Switzerland, and the kids will be rapping, using hip-hop slang, wearing hip-hop fashion. I’m struck by…

So, it’s cool when a black kid says something excerably stupid, like habitual use of the word “disss”, we don’t laugh at’em, but a rich white girl does and she needs correction? Bullshit. If kids are buying into a culture (literally consuming music and clothing, etc) and hanging out with kids of other races, they’re…

The Celts, Picts, and Vandals wore those hairstyles 2000 years ago.

I agree. Much more expensive for terrible quality and consistency. Not to mention, if you’re a guy, that they now only design for Lilliputions. Where do all these tiny dudes live?

Kickers are like designated hitters, except that I hate designated hitters.

Said it before, saying it again: The Sixers are killing my childhood.

Context is important. That was how the majority of guys dressed around that time. I did not, because I like myself, but it took a good 3-4 years for that look, jeans especially, to wither and die. Actually, the jeans are still around.

That kid embodies the stereotype of an Italian-American Long Island kid. He should get royalties.

One of the reasons I always make fun of LV shit is that when you carry it in public, you’re basically telling people, “Just look at how much money I blew for the privilege of advertising for LV. I have enough money to pay to work for someone else.”

They’ve really shown that they’re not a news network. Even though the various news networks approach stories differently, Congress can’t change networks.

White people can’t presume to understand the black experience, but neither can blacks presume to know the white experience. We all have our own presumptions, but we truly can’t know what it’s like to be something else because we can’t be something else (unless we live in Spokane, apparently).

I live in WA, so we win on dope. Always been for gay marriage. But, neither one of those things is going to cause a motorist from Ohio to swerve out of his lane (unmetaphorically) and hit another car.

In most modern countries, laws are in place to protect people from themselves. I’m agnostic on the issue to an extent, but I’ve also been 18-30 years old. So, I think sometimes you actually have to make dumb shit illegal.

It's not news that he's a racist or that he owns the pageant. So, they're all full of shit.

If you confine your interest to the effects of lane splitting to riders, you might get some confirmation bias. I don’t know enough about the data to comment.

He wasn’t justified punching her. At all.

How do you hate what you don’t watch or haven’t seen? It’s not your taste, that I understand, but I don’t think that ignoring something you don’t enjoy rises to the level of hate.

I’m not endorsing his hitting her. At all.