I’d love to be there when you tell your white parent that you’re ‘black’. Particularly if, like Obama, your white parent was primary in your upbringing.

I’ll be sure to tell his mother and his maternal lineage about the ‘post-racial garbage’ that denies their existence and equal influence on his genetics and upbringing.

He has the ‘right’, but he’s categorically inaccurate in his claim.

Well, I suggest you think about that before calling him ‘black’.

He’s half black, and half white. Which makes him just as white as he is black.

Agreed. I totally associate mint with gum and toothpaste. Swallowing it just feels gross and weird.

A decent intervention. The way that Europe and American have destroyed our biosphere is now being continued by the industrial practices of China and elsewhere. I was oversimplifying based on a particular mode of barbarous ‘western’ modernity that has been adopted and adapted by others, and is no longer geographically…

Indeed, this was a gross oversimplification. My interjection is basically calling to attention a particular mode of barbarous modernism that continues to devastate the biosphere, while pretending to be blissfully unaware about the everyday complicity of this form of violence. Of course, there are populations that…

How did you get to the meadow? The materials and the processes necessary to produce the concrete, steel, plastics, and oil used by streets, cars, trains and so forth are responsible for massive extinctions. As soon as you buy, use or travel using these transit options, you are implicated - you are directly supporting…

No. In fact, the Anthropocene (and its instantiations with climate change and environmental destruction) is fundamentally about the prioritization of human life over all other life in the biosphere.

There is not one single human activity performed in the Western world that doesn’t directly or indirectly lead to the…

No. The small class of ruling elite wore makeup - a class of psycho a-holes that demanded to be worshiped as gods.

Oh look! The little baby rhino is running and playing like it doesn't know that it lives in the nightmare horror show of hell that we call 'the zoo'.

The vast majority of all chocolate is sourced using child/women slavery.

The vast majority of all chocolate is sourced using child/women slavery.

The vast majority of all chocolate is sourced using child/women slavery.

The vast majority of all chocolate is sourced using child/women slavery.

FACT: An estimated 2/3 of all chocolate is sourced from child and female slavery, other forms of involuntary labor, or child/women trafficking. Some efforts are being made to reduce this industry-wide standard, and it may be down to 1/2 of all chocolate right now. Nestle, Hershey's, Mars/M&M, and the rest.

I would like to point out that there are quite a few on the radical left that support the arming of the citizenry for a few good reasons:

The best part about the term 'liberal' is its originations and recent adoption from people like Mizes, Hayek, and Friedman - the very people that created 'free market' ideologies and the erosion of civil, political and economic rights. When we speak of contemporary capitalism, we are speaking of a particularly…

Here's a comment that is guaranteed to keep me in the greys...