Dammit, Anne Rice. You make it difficult to be a fan of your bombastic vampire books.

I honestly pretend that she doesn't exist as a person. She wrote the earlier books, then something started taking over her brain in the later ones so they are kinda Anne Rice books but also not really and now what I think of as "Anne Rice" is gone. There are only the books. Primarily the early ones or ones that have David Talbot.

ok, leaving racism for a second, I have a pronunciation question:

MIGO

Mee go

^^^^^

This.

t edit Not my name; what Sophia said.

Timelies all!

msbelle, mee-go? (I don't know what/who Migo is.)

I also say Mee Go

My co-workers say My Go.

One of these links ... I forget which is which...

I always appreciate your warnings.

Thanks for the Common Core link. I'll delve into that when my head isn't pounding and I'm not surrounded by jungle noises. Yesterday I read an article about it that had highly conflicting comments and I wanted to hear opinions from people I know.

Mig-o.

My grandparents were actually from outside Port Arthur, but they still have family in that general area. The relatives who were laughing about the new people in the area who were building houses on the ground!! (Because people who know what's what build on stilts.)

My father-in-law's family's been there for a dog's age. Since they hopped the border from Louisiana in the 1850s, as I recall.

Right? I'd be fired for using slurs.

Well, in general I think it would be unfair to fire someone for admitting to racist speech decades ago long before they started their current job. But as a public figure and TV personality I can totally see past behavior affecting how she reflects on the network, and why they'd feel it necessary to end the association with her. Not to mention that she's an employee undergoing litigation for discrimination in her current tangential place of business.

Well, that didnt take long. [link]