True dat. The only part of him that’s an asshole is the part that he chooses to project to millions of people during the majority of his waking hours.

I think perhaps you didn’t realize that Kirilenko was the one joking.

Freebirds is terrible if you need quarters for the parking meter.

Some may have found this offensive, but I say Phuket, who cares?

“Please explain comedy to me.”

Yeah, well, you know, that’s just, like, your opinion, man.

I asked him today if he was a Beatles fan, and he replied that he heard they were good and intended to give them a listen in the future, adding that he really liked their song “Hotel California.”

Bullshit. Coaches are entrusted with the safety and well-being of teenagers and young adults. When they screw with it and damage people due to incompetence or malpractice they should be held accountable.

You are saying he’s in touch because he’s a media celebrity, who lives in the beltway, goes on vacation whenever he wants, teaches a vanity course at an Ivy League school, and spends his days reading long form journalism?

Time was hockey players had good names like Wayne, Patrick and Pierre-Luc Letourneau-Leblond

What...no Qbert?

right but like, what can YOU do to enforce labor laws besides leaving internet comments about it? this whole article, and my TLDR version, is explicitly about the systematic structural injustice involved in the salon industry. this type of wordy grandstanding leaves me cold as hell

I’m not asking you to stop denouncing institutionalized homophobia. Nor am I ‘justifying’ social & religious structures. Just saying that they are kind of on the opposite side of the spectrum, and to understand it better, and to help make it better, one must listen to the LGBTQ activists who grew up in said cultures…

As an *ahem* journalist, you might have added that the local Muslim community had met about this beforehand and decided on a joint response: completely ignoring the provocation.

My point is that you are not someone who is living under the systematic oppression in these places. I just felt that you saying you’re growing less and less patient with something you haven’t experienced firsthand is a bit arrogant. Feminist & LGBTQ activists fight tooth and nail to be heard in these places, I guess I…

There’s a difference between defending a religion and rejecting outright bigotry and racism against a certain group of people.

I heard on an NPR report about the story (currently looking for the link, but I’m actually expected to do work at work today so my research ability is limited) the reason they chose to have this event at the Curtis Culwell Center is that a Muslim-American group hosted an event there a while back inviting the community…

OF COURSE SHE IS HAPPY. This is EXACTLY what she wanted to have happen. I don’t care if people draw Mohammed or Jesus or any “revered” person in a blasphemous (or totally innocent) manner. I do agree that it’s free speech. However, she knew exactly the reaction she was going to get out of being so disrespectful about…