"I am confessing because I promised I would do so before becoming 18 - to avoid upsetting my family."
That's so...thoughtful of her?
Yeah, but you're an amateur fry cook and I come from a long line of fry cooks that don't live past 25.
Buffy ,'Showtime'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jessica - Aug 19, 2009 7:38:33 am PDT #4541 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Jesse - Aug 19, 2009 7:49:00 am PDT #4542 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yikes.
kat perez - Aug 19, 2009 7:50:47 am PDT #4543 of 30001
"We have trust issues." Mylar
I've heard the phrase "systemic racism" but "structural" is new to me.
I've always heard that concept described as "institutional racism". It was a big idea of Stokley Carmichael's work. (Stokley Carmichael was the name of my dad's dog when I was a wee little girl - he was a black lab and very, very radical as I recall)
Frankenbuddha - Aug 19, 2009 7:53:15 am PDT #4544 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Wow. Between serial-teen and the murder-for-ratings newscaster, that's a lot of bizarre crime for one week. Same city too, right?
Steph L. - Aug 19, 2009 7:53:18 am PDT #4545 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
GYMSLIP
What does "gymslip" mean? Is that where she lives?
Theodosia - Aug 19, 2009 7:55:22 am PDT #4546 of 30001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
It strikes me as the sort of 'confession' that a crazy person who wants attention makes, instead of an actual confession to actual crimes. I'll put up even money that there are few unexplained stabbings in the area she's claiming.
Jesse - Aug 19, 2009 7:55:54 am PDT #4547 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Steph: [link]
Typo Boy - Aug 19, 2009 8:07:11 am PDT #4548 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I hate to cite Wikipedia, but this explanation strikes me as very clear: [link]
Some sociologic investigators distinguish between institutional racism and structural racism. The former focus upon the norms and practices within an institution, the latter focus upon the interactions among institutions, interactions that produce racialized outcomes against non-white people. An important feature of structural racism (structured racialization) is that it cannot be reduced to individual prejudice or to the single function of an institution. Like-wise, it is important to note that once a structure is emplaced, its consequences likely will affect the entire population — not just the racially discriminated people.
Kathy A - Aug 19, 2009 8:10:03 am PDT #4549 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Will someone please talk me out of buying the dvd set of Planet Earth? It's really discounted over at Amazon right now (only $36!), but I have it burned on disc off of the HD channel, so I don't reallllly need it.
Jesse - Aug 19, 2009 8:10:57 am PDT #4550 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Does it have $36 of stuff you don't already have on your homemade discs?