civility
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Samuel L. Jackson, Patron Saint of ‘MFers,’ Endorses Rashida Tlaib’s Expert Usage on Trump
Before we dig into this story, I would first like to apologize to my dad, who once kindly suggested that I maybe, just maybe, give some thought to cussing less in my posts. Dad, my condolences, but this will not be one of those posts. Michigan Representative Rashida Tlaib told a crowd of supporters at…
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Judge of Characters: We Gotta Be Civil to These Supremacists for What?
Why is it an issue of civility when Auntie Maxine Waters says this to a crowd of people: Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create…
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John Legend Cussing Up a Storm About Sarah Sanders Is the Soundtrack You Need Today
At this point we’re fairly used to TV host and cookbook author Chrissy Teigen—who is, hands down, the best person on Twitter—being the voice-y one in the relationship. But that wasn’t the case Wednesday night, when a TMZ reporter ran up on Teigen and her husband, singer John Legend, as they left a restaurant in…
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Why Do Some of You Suck So Much at Parking?
Every day I get reminders about the inadequacies of public driving instruction in this country. It never fails. I’ll come home, preparing to park my behemoth Suburban along my street—I have on-street parking—and some individual for whom parking in a neighborly way is more inconvenient than economical will put a tiny-ass car smack in the…
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20 Things You Probably Do if You Were Raised Right
Some of you all are savages. I ain’t talking about your parents (or your mama, since that’s the stinger), but some of you weren’t raised right. I discover this fact almost daily. This morning, I watched somebody who clearly wasn’t raised right put the lives of myself and at least 10 other people at risk…