I miss Lisa Ling, too! I grew up watching her on Channel 1, and loved the book she wrote with her sister about her sister being held prisoner in North Korea.

Why are network TV shows so obsessed with finding white conservative shrills? There are plenty of those on Fox News, so no thanks. Why don’t the View try to find more black and brown women who hold varying political opinions?

As someone who is currently in school to be an ASL interpreter, this situation is one that happens daily. The only difference is that this one was televised instead of happening in a private doctor’s office or K-12 classroom. Deaf and hard of hearing people deserve qualified and certified interpreters who are held to…

“To me he will always be Tobias Funke or Todd Margaret.”

Yeah this seems like a squeaky wheel problem to me. At most weddings, it seems like the majority of the guest list is sane (in your case, 100% of the guest list was sane) but there’s always ONE family that insists on bringing kids and that makes it so much worse. Because the kids are bored, and overwhelmed by being…

He was an Oprah once (I beleive it was part of the Making Faces press tour since it featured heavily) and it was one of the most delightful hours of that show that I ever saw.

“If you can convince black women though, watch your career go to stratosphere.”

But the success of Fancy had little to do with Iggy. It was the Charli XCX chorus that clicked and is the only part of the song that people remember.

Well researched and written. The biggest takeaway is that she should have listened to the people around her. Even the song you posted in the article, had she dropped the blaccent and gone with Valley girl ala kesha in the first part of her career that would have been a cute little underground sleeper hit.

All through this article producers and directors are trying to get her to go pop instead of hip-hop, and when she finally does try to do hip-hop everyone holds it against her that she is white.

Nobody is crying any tears for this poor, beleaguered white girl who was handed a music career based on her whiteness, while a few people tried to steer her away from the cultural appropriation she so needed to commit. Fuck her.

HOW DARE YOU! Timothy Olyphant has only one acceptable twin, and that’s Barry Watson.

Blaming straight white males for something? Likely — often justified and likely.

Several years ago I used to work in banquets at a hotel. There would always be a gratuity added to the bill. Did the wait staff get it. Hell no. Quite a common practice. Service industry thrives on screwing over the help.

I have never been scared of anything other than possible dust inhalation in a bodega.

UGH. As a city parent, I cannot overstate the importance of corner stores to healthy communities. Corner stores (we don’t really call them bodegas and the owners are usually Palestinian) serve as the grandmas for the neighborhood. The corner stores keep an eye out, and they sweep the sidewalk, and they lend you a…

“Work in the city”

As a theatre professional I just need to shout one more time: NOT EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE TURNED INTO A GOD DAMN MUSICAL.

Oh, I thought it was about hot chicks who wanted to have a threesome with some guy and his wife.

Damn, almost sounds like they are taking a page from the Penn State rule book. Act like they are investigating, find nothing, let things go on as normal to prevent issues and hope they don’t get caught.