It may interest you to know that there are 25 Zhuo Zhang (Cho Chang in Pinyin) on Linked-In.

Kingsley Shacklebolt, Angelina Johnson, Alicia Spinnet, Lee Jordon,Blaise Zabini, Dean Thomas

I am a pediatrician, so naturally, accurately identifying any and all little tiny babies is an important issue for me.

For a second I read this as Stephen Colbert AND I ALMOST HAD A HEART ATTACK.

Would you have said the same thing to the white Mississippi freedom riders? They were good white people, too, and they paid the ultimate price for their decision to stand up for justice. Or the straight folk who mourned the death of Matthew Shepard? Or the men who fight for equal pay for women? Or the able-bodied…

Damn them. I really, really didn't want to like that.

One of the things I've been doing that I've found really helpful is to keep a "Job Hunt Log" where I note all the things I've done, e.g.

You're so wrong about the money. Fact check that.

No, that's what I mean. More of a "step back from the front lines". But many white folks aren't used to this.

"I'll have my cream with tea today, Mum."

I disagree. I'm black, and I've lived in France, and while the racism there is more pernicious the idea that in modern day France or England you'd find the amount of minority incarceration, and police violence against minority populations is inconceivable. I'm not painting any country as a utopia, but the physical…

Rodrigo y Gabriela

YOU SHUT YOUR DAMN MOUTH, THAT MOVIE IS A TREASURE

I won an "Ugly Holiday Sweater" contest at work this week with this sweater.

It sounds counter-intuitive, but it helps my anxiety to visualize the worst-case scenario and take comfort from the fact that it's never that bad. An old boss told me once that as long as he's alive and his family is alive, everything else is details.

I'm personally one of those people that almost never initiates making plans. I've had to consciously work on this for the past few years, because it's not that I don't want to hang out with people, it's more of a social anxiety thing about initiating contact. I have a bad habit of assuming that the other person will…

brian eno's ambient stuff

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The responsibility to change perceptions is not on these four mothers or other victims - rather it is on those whose senses of reality are so riddled with (un)conscious prejudices that they would mistake a teenager for a "demon" and a small 12-year-old boy for a 20-year-old man.

Has anyone dubbed her "Carriana Grande" yet?