I learned yesterday that “muah” is supposed to indicate “giving a kiss.” All this time I (genuinely) thought it indicated “maniacal laughter.” I thought it was a Bond villain thing. I’m serious. 

Tangentially, I feel really different about the Kardashians now.

Talking About Talking About Race

langer:

There were two pieces published on the internet last week on the subject of race that I think are worth revisiting. One of them pointed out some very important problems about the way we talk about race and sparked a number of productive conversations for me over the weekend; the other was so pernicious and facile as to prove fundamentally destructive to our ability to have a meaningful discussion about race.

The twist is that they were both the same piece: Lindy West’s “hipster racism” scold on Jezebel.

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I’m biased but this is still good.

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Today, in Perfect Things

in manhattan, i watched a man in a ron paul shirt get scolded by a trader joe’s employee for availing himself of too many samples.

“sir! sir! you can take one like everybody else.”