On a related note, the breathtakingly corrupt Silent Sam deal at UNC finally blew up today when the judge who approved the original settlement (and was likely in on the whole thing) had a change of heart and threw it all out on the grounds that neither the university nor the Confederate group it colluded with actually had standing to enter the deal in the first place

Hanging with Mr.Cooper. This gem is nowhere to be found.

I have railed on about this too. What is wrong with a decent salad, a ham sandwich (or similar) on good bread and soup. All of those things can be made to survive the rigors of the airplane food process and still be good. I never understand the attempts at more fancy foods that just fail almost every time.

I will rail on about it until my dying day: airlines should only serve simple meals. The fancier they try to be, the worse I find they are.

100%. The Root women have been killing it as they usually do. But I also felt this way about Maiysha’s latest. We’re all more than our worst mistakes, and putting good out into the world is well, good. But drawing a link between the rape case and a more socially conscious Kobe is tenuous and generous at best. A more…

Monique, you are one of my favorite writers here, and I recognize from your writing that you are grieving through this too, but here comes the but.

It’s an absolutely disgusting TV show. The episode they did on Hooters was REALLY something else, as the CEO was absolutely stunned to see one of the restaurant managers engage in sexist behavior towards his employees. The whole “I would have never expected something like this at a Hooters of all places,” completely…

That’s the whole Republican philosophy. You need to protect the rich greedy assholes or else you’ll never become a rich greedy asshole!

So, any negative thing, in any society in any situation comitted by a person of any ethnicity boils down to - racism. Now isn’t that convenient!

It’s not just potential self-hate, it’s also a class issue. “I became a police officer, so why aren’t you doing something better with your life?”

Here’s a thought.... I try to explain to people that even when a black police officer kills a black person it can be due to racism. Could be true because some black people have this self hate that extends to others, most likely due to being taught inferiority because racism. But that doesn’t even have to be the…

He’s always been in trouble. Before he ever became a white supremacist he had a history of DWI. After becoming a libertarian, members of the Free State Project in NH talked him into moving there, in 2012. They’re a group of armed miscreants, moving to NH to take over and dismantle the state government, then threaten…

Bullshit.

Correction: I specifically mentioned Trump supporters because they are the most likely of our electorate to make derogatory out loud statements about Muslims and any other non-white folk or non-Christian religions - as the assholes in the story did. Black and Brown folk patronize many different types of…

I am those Black and Brown folk and grew up with those restaurants available. It’s how I know they’re trash. My folks would drive past them and make us dinner instead of patronizing them. Why? Because they knew it was trash. I made no mention of Black and Brown folk in my post - not only because they are me and I am…

Sooooo....

Right. There are measures in place to validate checks. Such measures don’t involve calling the cops.

Who says it’s a noble sacrifice? Seems like a bit of a straw man argument. There’s nothing wrong with testing yourself for a month, or trying to set a goal for yourself that means being healthier, potentially saving money, and creating better habits for yourself in the future. Getting mad at people for attempting self…

Ethylene oxide occurs naturally in the human body. Ethylene is the gas that makes fruit ripen (the old “put an apple in a bag of green bananas” trick - ethylene is a hormone in plants) . When you eat fruit, you’ll end up eating some ethylene. The body then oxidizes it (creating ethylene oxide) to get rid of it.…

Eh, maybe for that name it’s not scary because it’s long, but just about every other chemical name is. I guess “monoxide” makes people think “CO” but augh.