Right, because having bad taste and hiring a creep like Terry Richardson is so much worse than subjecting women and children overseas to sweatshop conditions. If Jezebel spent a small fraction of the time advocating for those women that it does on Charney and Richardson these posts might be worth taking seriously.

But Riley Cooper's "character issues" are okay? Sure. This has nothing to do with him constantly wanting to renegotiate his contract or the tendency of sports franchises to smear players who ask for more money.

Definitely true of Jezebel, that's for sure. Mindless celebrity gossip is a lot of things but it sure ain't feminism.

And if the Rx industry could get eCigs approved as an official prescription-only (or at least FDA-regulated) smoking cessation therapy, they could become the exclusive providers, since the small Chinese companies that manufacture these things probably wouldn't get FDA approval?

I agree we'd rather not have murderers get off, but somebody has to defend them. As far as making light of/ glamorizing murder, I agree it's in bad taste. Then again, that pretty much describes the majority of American movies, television and music.

At home with their families just like you and me. Two-thirds of prisoners are there for non-violent offenses like drug crimes or forging a check. A (former) friend's mother spent 10 years in jail for forging a check for a few hundred dollars (because her husband had recently died of cancer and she and her kids were…

And you blame defense lawyers? Sounds more like the cops' fault.

Get a fucking life, people. Seriously. You don't know these people and your opinions about their romantic lives are not only irrelevant but unhealthy for you and humanity as a whole. Try not being judgmental for one fucking second and see how liberating it is.

I actually tend to think it's the pharmaceutical companies. Shitty smoking cessation products like gum, patches and inhalers are a HUGE industry for them. The tobacco companies are actually rumored to be developing their own superior eCigs that they hope will one day end up dominating the market (or so I've heard from…

The original family name was Baltwo but they measured from the top of the scrotum instead of the base of the shaft at Ellis Island.

Yes. This is typically how racism has been used to exclude black quarterbacks at the college and pro level. Did you know this about Michael Bush?

Kaepernick's crap out? He was statistically (by Football Outsider's metrics) the 8th bestquarterback in the league this year—one slot ahead of Wilson.

Fair enough (although I think there is considerable dispute as to the extent of the role Allen played in her life during his relationship with Farrow.) I'm not saying it's a healthy way to start a relationship, I just don't see it as all that damning one way or the other.

Soon Yi wasn't a child though.

Absolutely, and as I said I didn't mean to imply that it never happens, just that there isn't a very strong correlation (and that the instinct to implicate Allen in a child sexual assault because of the impropriety of his relationship with Soon Yi is probably misplaced.)

To say that violating the "norms of society for the sake of a sexual relationship" points to the possibility that someone is a pedophile sure is casting a wide net. That's more or less the kind of thinking that caused homosexuality to be conflated with pedophilia for so long. Also, pretty much everyone I know (well…

That is EXACTLY what I was wondering.

You don't know very much about China do you?

yes.

Perhaps you don't understand racism in America or the socially-acceptable coded language that perpetuates it here. Examples of such language would be "thug", "ghetto", and various criticisms of how somebody speaks, specifically coming from a white person and used to describe a black person.