I will probably regret even commenting here, but yes, agreed. It’s great to see Jezebel getting pieces from writers like her. And my parents are both 60 and I *like* hearing about their lives and their perspectives. I know the baby boomer stereotypes as well as I know the Millennial ones, being born in 1986, and yet…

There’s a large population of these mom types in Indiana. Even including Indianapolis. I went to HS with many of them. Decent chance they have a mud flap girl trucker hat in their closet or worse, as a tattoo. And that in junior high or high school, they put Playboy bunny stickers on before tanning.

That Biden gif makes me so happy.

I loved the roll call! It was fun to see each state shine. My representative in the House, Andre Carson, made me proud to be from Indiana (which can be tough sometimes.) He was dropping a diss track against Trump while the delegation had snarky signs and, somehow, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog.

Right? Sharp, funny, and gorgeous.

If anyone has heard about the 1988 Becky Bell case in Indiana, it’s a tragic illustration of why these laws are foolish.

My family still uses a beach towel from the 50s with a sailor checking out a mermaid. It’s pretty thin at this point, but it’s part of the family. They also use a Tropicana orange-themed towel that I guess my mom’s family got after buying a bunch of orange juice in the 60s or 70s. The beach towels at my house were…

I do that a lot when I pass the statehouse or his house, and I’m certainly not alone. :)

It’s that insight into trolls that my friends used to comfort me recently. Once you start to picture who would say such things, it’s a little easier to take.

Maybe it was sitting around on a train. That’s how I always ended up with newspapers in New York.

It’s always been this way, and the NASCAR race here is much calmer than the 5o0. I don’t get why this story is being received like it’s something new. Been this way forever.

They do hire clean up crews. Well, they pay non-profit groups to clean it up. It’s like this every year.

When we had the SB here in Indy 4 years ago, there was a lot less litter. The events really aren’t the same, though.

The event is actually run pretty well, given the scale of the event. And it’s been always this way. Next year I am bringing a trash bag for my area of the infield, though. A few more cans wouldn’t hurt.

Yes. The Brickyard 400 fans are way better behaved.

I can’t speak to what it’s like to BE black at the race, but I see a lot of black folks at the 500 these days and at the party outside the night before. I can understand the hesitatuon, though!

It has been the same forever. I remember seeing it in the late 80s just as trashed.

Grew up on Indy’s westside. The day I cleaned up the 500, at age 16 to raise money for my school choir, was the most disgusting day of my life, bar none. The memory of a foot-tall mountain of barf and nachos still makes me shudder. I attend now as a fan and it is a blast, but I always collect my trash and throw it…

I love it. It’s much cozier, and every single one of my hosts has provided a wonderful experience. They’ve all been friendly, too, and helpful about local attractions. You get to live like a local - maybe not particularly exciting in an average city in your home country, but very cool elsewhere. I stayed with two…

I have small-to-average breasts now in my late 20s, but until a few years ago they were definitely small. As a kid I wished for big ones. But seeing how people treated girls with them, and how frustrating it was for my friends to have them, disabused me of that notion quickly. I was made fun of for being flat, which…