That's the saddest troll attempt I've ever witnessed.

OK. I'm done. I think you're intentionally missing my point. I'm not saying that those issues don't exist. I damn well know they do. I'm saying that questions such as the one you asked don't help other than helping maintain the myth of race. Ok, moving on. Pax.

Don't you think representation is enough of an issue when someone is not hired because of race and a lawsuit is filed? Do you really think representation should be counted by random people calculating exactly what does and does not constitute a black person? My sister grew up being called an oreo because she "acted…

I don't know what's so incredible. Seriously, reread my last paragraph. I think it's all nonsense. The entire concept of race is a myth created out of ignorance and maintained in order to justify the mistreatment of people with different physical features. We really need to stop caring about race, stop separating each…

What's this? A reasonable, cogent stance? Get off my Gawker! :D

In marketing circles, there's TOMA (top-of-the-mind awareness). It may not jump immediately, but it may be more frequently clicked on when looking down that long list of search results from Google or Bing.

I agree that refuse and reduce are far better than recycle, but I'm not sure if landfill is better than recycle in the case of plastics. I'm almost convinced that it is in the case of paper, but far from convinced in the case of plastics. Glass and aluminum, of course, I'm sure are better recycled than trashed.…

Oh, how far we've come. It used to be that "one drop of blood" would "reduce" someone to be considered a black person. Now, even when they're half-black, and sometimes the president, we're loathe to give them the benefit of being black.

Ah, yes. Thank goodness for zefrank! Good stuff, indeed.

I really want to take a class on the Traditional Sarcastic Dance. I'd love to break into it when listening to how my students have it so hard because they have to do homework while in other parts of the world girls are getting shot because they want to go to school and have the right to have homework.

Oh, damn! Someone just got TOLD!

Sorry, but I don't believe your response to Turd's question. You can't be offended every time someone takes on an accent unless that accent is meant to lampoon the race/ethnicity/culture. There's a huge difference between what happened in this sketch and blackface. The Chinese characters were NEVER the victims of any…

As a by-product of another hack, why wouldn't you want to eliminate fabric softener?

The classroom widgets idea is just plain "too late" in today's world of interactive white boards. The one use that made sense to me is outside shop windows, where the products can be replaced frequently without the need to replace the acoustic barcode (you just change the related recording). But I don't know if that's…

Where do one's feet go? Sitting seiza-style is fine, but the chair backs would get in the way, wouldn't they?

I have a little hedgehog thumb pot and love it for watering my delicate seedlings, but this milk jug version has one distinct advantage: I can pop the cap off in order to allow the jug to fill faster and/or fill it from the top. I may have to do this.

I think part of it is that neither has a visible fingernail. The rightmost, I understand, but the left finger should have more of a nail.

I don't know what it is, but there's definitely something disturbing about that picture. Can't quite put my finger on it, though.

Not saying it didn't happen, but why would a writer sue someone for driving more traffic to their site?

Ah, now I get what you meant with your first sentence. Fair enough.