It’s the Estate of Martin Luther King Junior who approves all of his likenesses/speeches for all uses, which is run by his sons and not by Bernice. https://slate.com/business/2018/02/the-mlk-estate-approved-that-dodge-ram-super-bowl-ad.html

...I have no idea what any of that means.

I’ve seriously avoided any and all smart assistant tech, but if I can start speaking to a computer by saying MOTHER, I might break.

It’s so tiring. I’ve spent years talking about how Franco might embody a kind of queer politics that is separate from specific sex acts—that radical queerness might be available to all kinds of people for the benefit of all people—and then it turns out he’s just a lying patriarchal dickface.

She’s from Waco, and her mom was Governor in Texas, so she has as much as (more than) a reason to be a Texas senator than Cruz, regardless of where her career has taken her in the meantime.

This is a bad take.

Tru facts.

I was about to be sarcastic about this comment, but instead I have a question. Have you honestly never been expected to have an opinion about something your friend made? Nobody asked for a comment on their cake, blanket, or decor?

That Mystery, Incorporated clip just demonstrates how perfect that series was. I can’t believe they cancelled it for this Be Cool nonsense.

If they hadn’t been so shrimpy with his crab, he’d haddock a good time.

This is me as a white person: wtf.

We used to do Yankee Swap every year, and the rules of the game have to, have to, HAVE TO be that:

Yeah, but then that leaves November empty and dreary. I spent a year in Canada and hosted an American Thanksgiving for my friends, and they were all glad of something to do.

Unmentioned in this article, but the law was also fucking racist.

With the added benefit of thinking that, though the military is a jingoistic extension of American imperialism, the American President should not make arbitrary policy decisions as if he’s Louis XIV.

This is a terrible example, since The Awakening is an American classic.

I think you missed part of the point. All things that make the a Keurig wasteful also make it horribly inefficient.

German actually has three different gender cases: male, female, and neuter.

It’s nice! Not for 10 grand, but I could definitely hang it up next to my Britney poster and feel like it brought the room together.