I think we overestimate how much cultural knowledge kids have at 13-14. In some ways and in some subjects they may have great sensitivity and depth of knowledge, but in other ways they’re still completely products of their environment and they can’t know what they don’t know. Read more
Michael Ann Dobbs
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So... I am embarrassed to say that I didn’t know the term “ch!nky” eyes was a racial slur until I was in COLLEGE. I had never heard that word used to refer to Asians (could be because there were almost none where I grew up). To me, it just meant when you squint when high - which is a total facepalm now. Like how did I… Read more
He was never on a 53-man roster.
I think it’s that they didn’t actually let Michael Sam play. They cut him before the season began, so he was the first openly gay man *drafted* into the NFL, but this guy is the first *active player* in the NFL. Read more
It’s an important discussion, but I’m so tired of hearing about these whiney losers in their final days of flailing about in their death knell of majority status. Read more
Seriously. I don’t care what white men think anymore. I’ve been hearing about it since the dawn of time. They’ll never change because they have no reason to. Read more
This Politico article is truly bending over backwards to find diversity amongst the modern GOP. Like, I’m sure they don’t wear identical socks, but I don’t wouldn’t group them by the style of socks they wear and tout those as politically meaningful distinctions. Read more
Despite many aspects seeming campy or clunky in retrospect, I would love to see non-ironic, faithful adaptations of Caves of Steel and The Naked Sun.
Can’t imagine my whole personality and political views being just a reaction to someone else’s moral values, so pathetic.
I take exception to Val Kilmer! In his movie star heyday he was perfection & should not ever be included in a list with Kevin James or Donald Fucking Trump.
This is not what Gaby Hinsliff is saying in the Guardian. Read more
They have to be trolling right? it’s ridiculous the lengths some people will go to to diminish something they themselves aren’t capable of
It’s exhausting how there is nothing girls/women can do without some dude trying to explain why what they did was not that impressive actually.
They’re “uncontrolled” because they’re on the patio and there’s a huge-ass strange animal on the wall in their territory, it’s not like they’re running wild in a national forest and went after some random bear.
Oh dear, that’s quite the angry rant. Read more
Really depends on which way you’re looking at it. If you’re trying to address the issues with education in this country, you’re correct. There should be a way to fix costs. If you’re looking at it as a stimulus, they just have to pump money to people that they know are going to spend it.
I believe the original idea was to couple it with a really aggressive free tuition at public universities (and community colleges) initiative, so that future students could get a very good education for free, but you could still choose to go into massive debt at a private school if you really wanted to do that.
He desperately needs them for validation, but also despises them for being dumb enough to fall for his con.
Is there, say, a basket we could have sorted these people into a few years ago? In the second half of 2016 maybe?
At some point you just have to understand that the remaining Republicans are sociopaths. They commit voter fraud while claiming the other side is doing it. They’re comfortable in their hypocrisy, because they know they’re lying. Read more