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Say what you want about the Mormons, but at least they knock on your door during the day.

Ted is a forum for reassuring rich liberals that they're good and smart.

The government of Rwanda is not preventing the poor from being taken advantage of, they're taking a cut of the action.

I can't help but notice that's an awfully small wiener. Confirms my priors.

Everyone assumes that Uncle Tom was a character like Sam Jackson's Stephen from "Django Unchained" or Uncle Ruckus from "Boondocks". The character in the book is nothing like this. In fact, Uncle Tom is an admirable character. How this man's name became a slur is more complicated than it first appears.

The weird part about reading "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is that its advocacy literature, and most of us don't need much convincing that slavery is bad. But we need this context to understand that Uncle Tom was created by a white woman to appeal to a white audience because it's his tragedy that is supposed to persuade the reader. Uncle Tom didn't fashion himself to please some master like Calvin Candy, he was created whole-cloth as a device to awaken empathy of white audience. It's not his character, it's his raison d'être.

She's forgotten her roots. Back in the 90s she had to hold down all kinds of jobs to get by like psychic, showgirl-nun, and dinosaur cop.

The problem with biology is that it attracts too many cool people. Especially those marine biologists studding sharks and shit. That's why taxonomy is one of the refuges for real pedantics and nerds. No danger of running into anybody with a tan in that department.

What's learning good for?

Is that true? the space bar is a keyboard shortcut?

My latest keyboard doesn't have a ctrl on the right side and it took me 2 weeks to adjust.

Some people look down on WWE, I see it as a window on American culture. Even the lazy refrain: you know it's not real right? Well read the allegations against McMahon with special attention to how he ran his enterprise, and say that again. It's as obtuse as saying "you know movies aren't real, right"? Wrasslin' is like what would happen if an improv troupe went global. Just think of the talent that's come out of it: legendary athletes, blockbuster actors, .....POTUS.

Instead of getting up early for Meet the Press, I stay up late for Monday night Raw.

These people who get so incredulous about "soft" social sciences, (think critical theory) yet talk about IQ testing like it's Newton's 4^th^ law do not value, or do not understand the science. Even the serious people who defend IQ in good faith, speak of it with qualifications.

What is so attractive about a system to categorize and rank humanity? And what do the people who are attracted to it have in common?