Is how many women or people of color have directed movies among the top 5 or 10 top grossers really a useful metric?

I genuinely don’t mean to question your lived experiences or anyone else’s. I know that there isn’t always any outward sign of abuse when it happens. I wrote what I did because in many cases though people may not have known about the abuse while it occurred, in retrospect they could point to signs that abuse was…

I truly hope you don’t really believe that. They likely will get paid, but because the Republicans fear losing their middle class support more than they’ll admit, not because of any union.

“Since you were more in agreement with Tank & the others from the beginning about it being hard to separate the music you were able to find more sincerity in them that I did. So I probably am condemning R.Kelly more than you like.”

“What does R. Kelly’s music have to do with him raping someone?”

I can’t say whether any of the artists mentioned ever spoke out about R Kelly before either publicly or privately. I doubt you can either. Your criticism of men of all backgrounds not being vocal about R Kelly’s rape and other abuse of women is valid, but how can you say that music has nothing to do with it? It does.

“...Our country is technically set up not to be racist...”

“It also really doesn’t help that Tony Lip’s son wrote the script and that nobody actually consulted with Dr. Shirley’s family."

Sorry.... The caption for the photo attached to this story should read “America wasn’t ready for school integration, and despite court rulings and decades of hard work, THEY STILL AREN’T INTEGRATED.

“I am very glad she will be getting out but it’s beyond shitty that they continue to paint what she did as a heinous crime. She was the victim of terrible crimes, not a perpetrator. “

The thing that pisses me off more than these asshole guards outrage at inmates being treated humanely, is the knowledge that these guards know that doing so helps to entice those prisoners who live in some pretty fucked up conditions to behave like human beings.

“This is good news”

“As usual, Trump is just the symptom. The disease—something that both Cooper and Wallace are a HUGE part of—is much, much bigger. And it’ll prove much harder to get rid of than Trump will.”

The most frustrating part of this whole “The Wall” thing is the fact that any reasonable thinking human being should easily understand how useless a border wall would be.

The award presentation by 4 of the Black Panther cast was the only bit of the Globes that I saw. Even though they didn’t win Best Picture (were they even nominated) it was great to see them together on stage looking spectacular.

The sheer width and breadth of denial in the comments - thankfully mostly in the greys- is astounding. Not just “I don’t think Kelly is guilty”rather “keLly didn’t do nothing why are youbhating on this beautiful good fearing man he ain’t in jail he don’t do it plus all those women want to be there you just jealous.”

They have so far. The thing though is that it isn’t automatic. Legislation has to be passed to get Federal workers back pay.

I was operating on outdated information...

That’s.... What I’m saying. According to what I’ve read Congress has already passed legislation to pay these folks *after* the Government reopens for business.

“...But for federal employees who aren’t salaried, that’s 16 days (and counting) with no back pay, whether they actually went to work or not.”