Ugh. Dude, shut up. Just shut the hell up. Read more

that was bloody brilliant.  Read more

It’s also absurd for the Post to not recognize that a great many people are grappling with feelings of sadness and loss that are heavily tempered with full recollection of what he did. Sure he has plenty of fans more than willing to sweep this under the rug. But I bet there are a lot more for whom what he allegedly did… Read more

They already have

My heart just breaks for her. It was exceptionally painful to be a rape survivor on the internet yesterday, without having your job reprimand you in such a public, unsupportive way. I just cannot imagine. Read more

I saw the reaction to Sonmez’s tweet yesterday and was holding my breath for the WaPo’s reaction. Yup. They made the wrong call, just like I thought they would. You don’t punish a reporter for conveying accurate information. She didn’t tweet it directly to his family. She didn’t add commentary calling him anything… Read more

I pointed out this article on twitter that called Kobe to account too because we can mourn his, and the other people’s premature deaths, due to the way they died and still talk about why sports stars get away with criminal acts.
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Thank you. For a reporter to be punished by a purported news organization for accurately pointing out that he was very credibly accused of rape, is fucking insane. Read more

Rapist* and basketball player Kobe Bryant has died in a helicopter crash.... Read more

I’m going into work tomorrow and going to talk about how sad it is for his family every time it comes up ‘cause I don’t want to have to punch out a motherfucker. Read more

Horrible for his kids, but I find it very hard to summon sympathy for this rapist son-of-a-bitch

RIP

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Scarlett Johansson’s already up for the role of Lydia in the film adaptation. Read more

Agreed. I, too, am confused why she chose to write about the Mexican experience. I’m half hispanic (Nicaragua and El Salvador) and white (Irish). I remember in second grade asking my mom about the standardized tests that ask your race, the choices for me were White (non-hispanic) or Hispanic (non-white). Even at that… Read more

Ok, so I’ve not really delved all the way in to this, but it’s my understanding that the author has a grandparent from Puerto Rico. Read more

The Democrats can’t do anything unless they get elected. And not just the White House, because if the GOP still controls the Senate after the 2020 election, Moscow Mitch will block every bill and every judicial nomination that comes along from a Democratic president and Democratic House. From someone living in the… Read more

Look. You take me out of Tennessee and I Immediately pick up a new accent. Some folks just can’t help it. Chicago? Paris? New Olreans? I’ve accidentally been mistaken for a native in all these places becuase I can’t help myself when it comes to accents. *shrug* Read more

'What's so new about what you're saying? Read more

…and we all paid our fucking student loan bills, quietly without bitching (too much) about it. Read more

And GenX said the same about the generation before them, and those before them. Seriously. We're ALL at fault here. Nobody is innocent. Read more