House gets snarky when he's in pain. I get whiny. Snarky seems like the better option.

AAAAYYYYYYIIIIIIIII!!!!!! (Not directed at Suzi's boobs at ALL, but--)

AAAAAAAYYYYIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!

Robin Williams is TOURING! Robin Williams is TOURING!

And he's coming to my godforsaken corner of the state!

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!

Oh great. My boobs killed the thread.

With awe, babe. And great reverence.

Boobies!

Fabulously wonderful news, Sparky! Yay for world domination!

::gropes Suzi's boobies::

I skippety-skipped to say...

Yay for Babyfras! Congratulations SparkyFam.

The teenager upstairs was accidentally locked out of the house today. His solution to this problem? To kick down the fucking front door! WTF? What have I done to earn such bad neighbor karma?

I think that boy needs a bikini wax

With duct tape.

Administered by a large muscular former member of the East German women's weightlifting team.

I was thinking he needed a brazilian.

A thought on defining race and ethnicity. Fay's question was the second time it came up on the board, recently - Hil's about secular Jews was the first.

So I want to put it in context. Race and ethnicity are really artificial creations. They exist because because people believe in them. A race or an ethnic group exist for one (or both) of two reasons. The people who belong to the group consider the group as real and themselves as belonging it to it. Or other people define the group as real and certain people as defining it, and those others are in position where that belief makes it stick. For example think of race, tied to certain ethnic subgroups. Only, I would say a sub-part of the European continent that consists of most of Scandinavia along consists of an equally distinctive genetic subgroup as the race we call Black. Yet we don't have a Scandinavian race. (I guess we do have a Scandinavian ethnicity. Or do we?)Why? Because power relations and self-definition did not define ever lead to Scandinavians being treated as a race, or considering themselves one. Ethnicity is even more fuzzy, because you don't even need to pretend to tie it to genetics. (Religious ethnicities are prime examples, because whether a religion is also an ethnicity depends on historical accidents and really rbitrary self-definitions.) The fact that these are social creations does not make them unreal. The effects the creation of races and ethnicities are very real indeed. But the point is that the classification schemes and definitions are after the fact rationalizations. Race and ethnicity starts by someone saying "those people over there are a member of X", or a group of people saying "we are the X people", or most often both. Definitions and criterion for membership in X come later, and are often inconsistent, and usually subject to change.