LOL! Ouch!

LOL! Oh how I recognize this one. Just getting some peeps to read stuff on horizontal decision-making for that very ailment - that and the more manipulative warm fuzzy version of distracting ppl with your superior empathy and thus avoiding decisions altogether.

LOL! I could have used that stick.

"I am not using you as a guinea pig until I can find the exact combination of gayness to make Rick Santorum’s head explode."

Hahahahahaha. Maybe not, but I really hope you find that combo.

Everyone should force themselves to be uncomfortable on a regular basis - whether it is confronting prejudices or living somewhere with sporadic running water and unfamiliar customs. That's how we all become slightly less clueless in life.

"Schools enforce social discipline, they do not encourage children to think critically or to understand larger concepts. The number one lesson taught on a daily basis is conformity, and this means conforming to the status quo no matter how terrible this is to historically marginalized people. "

This is so incredibly true. I mean the fact that the teachers have advanced degrees should be evidence enough of what a waste our school systems are.

I don't know what I would do if I had kids and couldn't afford to unschool them. I'd pretty much spend every waking hour with them trying to undo what school did.

Hahaha. I must admit that, back in my South Beach days, I dropped the word "fierce" a few times. I couldn't help it. All my friends said it constantly. It was a contagion.

Don't believe I have any other confessions from this one (thankfully). Tho I must say that I was constantly being set up by friends who started the conversation by saying "OMG, I know this straight guy..."

Reagan actually had a lot of lines that, if you never paid attention to what he actually did, you might think he wasn't completely evil.

I don't know how slavery ended in each country in Latin America. But I do know that Bolivar received financing from the newly freed Haitian people after the Haitian revolution. And one stipulation was that there would be no more slavery in the de-colonized countries of Latin America. My recollection, from the countries I am most familiar with, is that the end of slavery generally came with independence from (mostly) Spain... Whereas with our war of independence, you might argue that we would have ended slavery sooner if we stayed with Britain.

Also probably important to note that the Latin American context was very different. Most countries had a much larger indigenous population and fewer African slaves. Also, the Spanish never came up with one-drop rules and intermarriage was generally much more common since the beginning. That also effects how things kind of played out.

You are obsessed!

You are very welcome. Thank you for reading.