1. DivineCaroline tries to convince you to live in a South African castle rather than a cramped one-room bedroom in San Francisco.
BP response: does the castle have high-speed Internet access and a Starbucks around the corner?
2. This youtube video shows us the internal going-ons of a meat factory in America and presumably is meant to make us sick.
BP response: Ever seen what your own body looks like under a microscope? Pretty damn disgusting. So what?
3. Crooks & Liars calls Fred Barnes an elitist for his “Lower Class” comment
BP response: More interesting than Barnes’ freudian slip is the fact that some people actually believe the “no class system in America” myth. Just like every society, ours has classes. You might not like it, we might not like it, but it’s true.
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