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Brendan O'Connor
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Unappreciated by whom, Joanna? By you and the rest of the media? Because unlike you elitists, honest, hardworking Americans have been appreciating the hell out of that table for years. Read more

I regularly encourage people to read the FB comments on Al .com. If you do, you will see how low and disgusting Americans really are. When cases like this come up (in fact this actual story) on Al. com, you will regularly see people commenting things like “Should have just put a bullet in him to begin with..” etc. The Read more

Yes. Prison conditions are uniformly fucking terrible. They are often worse for black inmates, but prison reform should be a universal cause. Read more

as Democrats scramble to figure out 2020 there should be a bright flashing light at DNC headquarters that says “DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES NOMINATE ANDREW CUOMO” Read more

While few would accuse a player who’s been caught out of position and drags back an opponent on the break of “cheating” as such, to deem behavior like this “tactical fouling” is really just engaging in euphemism. Less sympathetic commentators might call it a “cynical” foul, or the more impartial “veteran” foul.
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The myth of a pure past in English football is just that...a myth. Here’s Franny Lee diving years before any bloody Argies played in England:

Still can’t watch the news, so I don’t know what’s going on here, but I just came to say that Rep. Ellison is beloved in MN. Even the people who hate his politics still respect the guy because of his absolute devotion to his district and his state. He has deeply held and very strong convictions, but he is not an Read more

That’s stupid, though. I don’t even like Farrakhan, but to say that he’s ever participated in activities against Jewish people that are comparable to activities the KKK has participated in against Black people and Jewish people and lots of other types of people is simply not factual. So once again, someone’s “views” Read more

Based on the recent dismal electoral results, we’re in a new era of smear-openness now, so let’s just say he’s black y’all, and he’s black y’all and he’s blacker than black and he’s black y’all, and he’s bliggity-bliggity-bliggity-bliggity black y’all. Read more

Please let’s not have this become the new normal. Why is the media being racists’ publicists? Cleaning them up and making them look good to the populace? Read more

“I will not tell you that...Tiffany’s...are my central concerns in life,” the mayor said. Read more

Excellent article. I tried it just this afternoon and there wasn’t the usual mess crumbs under my desk and in my lap. Thanks for the sound advice. Saved me all the embarrassment that comes with crumbs. The staring. The laughter behind my back. Read more

it’s just a picture of legs that cuts to an image of a man standing in a burning house and he has a goat head and his eyes are the black of the void and then it cuts back to an image of legs with paint on them and then it’s the goat headed man and he’s closer to the foreground and I can smell sulfur and then it cuts Read more

Because his sentance was life in prison. Which is ostensibly there to deny freedom from the inmates and separate them from the population at large. Not to put them in a living hell. Read more

The number of footprints could be deceiving of how many people were actually there if they were walking in single file to hide their numbers. Read more

This might be my least favorite supermarket. I was living right by it before and after my divorce and I associate it (no pun intended) with beeing deeply sad. Also it is cold, depressing, and smells weird. Read more