Thank you for not redacting the names.

I am an awesome middle-aged-woman tipper. Good tipping is good karma. But then, I generally feel validated and affirmed in my life - so that makes it pretty easy to mostly be nice.

Yeah...no. If you purposely and knowingly hand someone a piece of paper with your info on it, the person you handed it to didn't steal it. Writing down or memorizing a person's info while angry and then calming down and not pursuing any form of revenge means that exactly nothing happened.

If he never did anything with it and never intended to, please explain to me why it's not ok.

Oh, fuck you all over again. Every woman I know over age 30 is a great tipper, so maybe your "general" statement is a gross, shitty overgeneralization, just like all statements about strangers based on their age, ethnicity, gender, appearance, etc.

Oh, fuck you. I'm 52 and female, and 20% is my minimum tip. I waited tables all through my twenties, and now that I make six figures (in fact, even before I started making six figures) I tip extremely well. Sometimes I tip a "magic" tip for no reason — like $20 on a $20 bill. One time a waitress told me she'd gotten a…

The Ransom of Red Chief.

But she's still a scientologist, so...

Katie Holmes already did.

How is it that people get so angry about the bindi, a fashion article, but appropriating namaste is alright?

How the fuck do so many people know nothing about their own ancestry? I understand if you were abandoned or you were adopted and the birth certificate is sealed, but has nobody heard about Ancestry.com? You have like 16 great great grandparents, and humans generally stick to their own kind. People are talking about…

The map is showing the majority ethnicity of each county, as reported by the US Census. I think you're mad at the map for the wrong reasons.

Chunks of the US de-Germanized during WW One, even; before then there were many more German-speaking-majority towns, lots of German-language papers, etc.

This is not a map of race.

As a cartographer, I am saddened by how many people don't know how to read a map.

Those are potential problems with the census, but not the map. Again, the US census allows respondents to self identify, so its a reflection of what people call themselves.

My Germanic grandfather was a WWII vet (for our side) and was very proud of it. I don't know anyone of German descent who had Nazi sympathizers in the family. That's sort of an unfair assumption.

This map is not BS, but the best possible representation of ancestry in America, based on US census data that allow individuals to self-identify their own ancestry, at a nationwide scale. You could create a map with greater detail if you went down to the level of census blocks or census tracts, but then it would be…

How is it admirable to strongly believe in something in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary?

Rarely have I seen so many questions that could be answered by either reading the fine print on the map or going to the original article, which is linked for convenience. For fuck's sake, people, do your due diligence!