@derekwebb Hmm, I cut out the monsters, but maybe a strong coffee. By the way, I love the reverse opening. Unfortunately my first listen through was interrupted by kids waking up, I'll try again tomorrow.
@Purpl_Unicorns "Babe" is not flirting under one of three conditions:
1) You are my waitress
2) You are my great grandmother
3) You are my significant other
Under all other conditions, you are suggesting you want to be one of these three.
@OshaDavidson @MarniyJ @realDonaldTrump I have to believe the use of the word "lynching" in this tweet was intentional. "Witch-hunt"; "lynching". There is an intentional appropriating of the history and language of oppression to cast the powerful, white male as in some way the victim.
@michaelgungor ...describe it as a unit, but I think you can also break everything down into parts and functionally describe those parts as “ones” in and of themselves. All of my body is one, but that does not mean that my kidneys cannot be discussed and described as distinct from my brain.
@michaelgungor I’m uncomfortable with this as a blanket assertion. “All” and “one” are both terms of categorization. Categories do not simply describe what is, they are self-fulfilling, they only mean something once they are used for a purpose. You can look at the whole of everything and...
I, too, sing America...
Tomorrow,
I'll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody'll dare
Say to me,
"Eat in the kitchen,"
Then.
Besides,
They'll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed—
I, too, am America.
~Langston Hughes
@stuffmennossay I prefer the term “ethnic German”, it allows a true telling of history (a period of time where ethnic German Mennonites were not part of the white dominant culture in the US) and also a realistic presentation of the present (where most Mennonites aren’t ethnic Germans...