As a person who studies language, yes—I did clue in on those two things.

Your point?

I didn’t call it an outlier. I was making a point about the cross section of elder worship and blackness. If you don’t understand this, google/Google Books/JSTOR/any basic article warehouse is your (black) friend.

Love this post; thanks for sharing it!

I studied linguistics in grad school and am a POC.

And of course because it’s early and I write this after being awake for 5 minutes, I screw up and don’t write, “Man Bites Dog.” But hopefully you still get my point! (rushes for coffee)

It’s often said educated black people have Two Sides: the side they show the wider (whiter) world, and the side they show back home, flipping between the two with ease based on what they need to get done and rarely letting one side see the other.

Yep! That’s the general rule. The idea is the media loves sensation because sensation sells, so if a paper could say, “Dog Bites Man,” it would say, “Dog Bites Man.” It wouldn’t ask, “Did This Dog Bite a Man?” (So given Deadspin’s brashness and the election’s being in three days and Drumpf’s being just dead wrong…

so what you’re saying is all signs still point to no?

Now that Trump is self-destructing, I feel even those in swing states have the opportunity to vote their conscience.

This story legit fucked me UP.

Yes, but what you’re forgetting is that Hillary Clinton is an evil fake-smiling not-smiling-enough shrill-but-also-too-tame she-demon; and also the most corrupt politician of all-time; and also basically the wife of Caligula; and also the murderer of Vince Foster, whom she strangled in her own basement with VCR cords;…

Am I the only person freaked out over the jinxing? SHE HASN’T WON YET! DON’T CALL HER “MADAME PRESIDENT!”

Have you seen this? I just thought you would like it.

almost comically racist as a whole

Ha! I almost included this point in my original reply! I wanted to wax Australian. ‘Cuz on the one hand, Australians seems way less politically and religiously uptight than Americans, which would push them left. But at the same time, they can give off a douchebro Wild West vibe, which could push them right. Hell yeah,…

Dallas Mavericks and former Golden State Warriors center Andrew Bogut’s political beliefs are exactly what you would expect them to be.

Spy is such a wonderfully funny film! It just sparkles. I can’t rave enough about it. It was and still is the only time I have gut-laughed at a movie from beginning to end.

Thanks for hearing me out and appreciating my POV.

I never heard this happened? I don’t revel in splitting hairs over something so gruesome and deeply horrifying, but I remember reading his eye left his socket from the severity of the beating, not through intention. ... Not that it truly matters. It’s soul-crushing to even discuss.