The Jesus and Mary chain-smokers.

Kim and Kanye are so transparently thirsty to be Bey and Jay, but will never be anything but some Canal St. Rolexes.

Angelique! Girl you still here and stay cray, yes! I thought that Jacobs Mafia had got you. Love you Angel!

But that shouldn’t be based on the original crime. That should be based on your time in prison, your remorse, what we call rehabilitation. That is the point of parole.

50 years is life in prison. Life with the possibility of parole means that maybe you can die free after serving your time. And that’s the sentence she received.

Prisoners who are eligible for parole and meet the requirements to be paroled should be paroled. The gruesomeness of their original crime should be a factor in sentencing, and whether or not the possibility of parole is granted, but not a factor on whether parole should be granted.

People who have done horrifying things, things much worse than what she did, have been granted parole in California. If no one knew her name, and she was not attached to the manson story, she would have been out long ago.

I don’t get the beef with Valerian; Great film and I thought well acted through out.

I went to Kyoto and there are a large number of companies there who will dress you up in traditional costume for a day. You can dress up in a nice kimono, but for a higher price, you can dress up like a maiko or geiko. Any geishas you would meet in the streets would actually be dressed up tourists. I went and dressed…

Fashion bindis are actually intended to be worn as fashion. They come from India, and they’re different from religious bindis.

And white people have been criticized for wearing shalwar kameez.

The main problem, IMHO, with discussions of cultural appropriation is that a lot of it is done on Medium thinkpieces, Twitter,…

And as comes up every time there’s a controversy related to Japan and cultural appropriation, Japanese people do tend to have a different attitude. This then often gets handwaved as well, Japanese people don’t really understand racism like Japanese-Americans do because Japanese people are the majority culture. Which…

Braiding ones hair, dreadlocks etc. have THOUSANDS of years old History in Europe alone, never mind the rest of the world. It’s quite a common style used by many different cultures throughout history.

People screaming appropriation for every little thing really doesnt help the cause. Stealing a musical genre or method of speech you didnt earn? Hell yea crucify these motherfuckers. Pretending africans invented braided hair and cooking with oil? GTFO with that shit.

Please don’t encourage them. As a denizen of the UK I can tell you that their ‘updates’ really manage to royally piss me off every time I’m unfortunate to stumble upon them. Perhaps you can glean something from their US related comments and adjust your perception to suit. Their take is always hot like the syrupy…

Re: 3)The fourth estate / fifth column is pathetic. They’ll tepidly disapprove of trump as long as impressionable readers will subscribe but will lash out at anyone who tries to make any systemic change. But we all remember how well sitting around disapprovingly worked during the 2008 crash—what could possibly go…

Turned me off to doing any kind of activism in the area completely.

I like when conservatives tell me about all those far left communist anarchists.

Really? Communist and anarchist, huh?

My recollection is that she said he called her about the song but she didn’t hear the half of the lyric where he says “I made that bitch famous,” and the video seems to confirm her version (assuming that if the video did show that it would have been included in the released version). The line she did hear isn’t really…

“I made that bitch famous” is the part of the verse we never, ever, never-ever-ever hear Taylor approve. She laughed uncomfortably at “Me and Taylor might still have sex,” but that’s it.

I have no idea why people are siding with Kanye. I know he’s mentally ill but he treated her awfully. He freaked out about her award (then lovely gracious Beyonce gave up her award time), he wrote a creepy song about banging her, called her a bitch as a kid, made a creepy sex doll of her and put it naked with a Bill…