I for one look forward to watching women's rights be shredded under a female President much as we've watched civil rights be shredded under a black President!

It's an admirable goal, but I always wonder what the actionable goals of these international summits and panels will be.

http://help.gawker.com/customer/porta… is probably your best bet. It's what I use generally.

Snowden is a hero. The United States betrayed us by secretly and illegally spying on its own citizens, and he gave up his whole life to tell people the truth. Fuck you, Kerry, and everyone else who complicity allowed the NSA to do what it did.

I wish Obama would man up and take an actual stand on financial reform regulations, Wall St prosecutions, Net Neutrality, campaign finance reform, the Keystone pipeline, student loan debt, and the failed drug war.

Except then we have to figure out what he means by behaving like a little boy. Avoiding incarceration in some dark hole in a secret prison? Abuse by the prison guards? Hell, Ill choose behaving like a boy any day.

Fuck off, you Iraq-war-voting trophy husband to a ketchup heiress. Why don't you man up and offer amnesty to this national hero whistleblower.

I'm going to assume, until proof to the contrary, that Snowden meant well when he leaked the documents, as opposed to working for a foreign intelligence office that wanted to harm the US. If he truly did it for the public good, can you imagine the loneliness and lack of options he is facing right now? He can't be…

I'm a card carrying vagina haver and I wouldn't come back either.

Whenever anyone calls something gay we can say "Ugh, that's so straight". And when they get confused we explain it's when someone does something stupid like using bigoted slurs. But it has nothing to do with straight people. It's just so *straight*, you know?

This is a photo of a flooded city in Serbia

Eastern parts of Croatia are flooded too.

Oh they have plenty of shame. They find different words to describe their actions because fascism is such an ugly word. It's now called "patriotism and liberty".

The Wendy's drive thru comment is actually perfectly applicable. It comes down to clearly defining what results are expected. The result in this case is that an order is taken from a customer who is in their car, entered into a system, filled, and delivered within a certain amount of time. That's not BS from The Man.…

The American Government had agents pose as UN Vaccine Givers to secretly test the DNA of children to help track down BigBadScaryTerrorists. I think a lot of the blame goes on their shoulders.

I agree wholeheartedly, but let's also remember that the paranoia has some basis in fact. The United States used fake public health workers delivering "polio vaccines" to obtain the DNA of children in the Bin Laden compound in Pakistan. There has been an enormous backlash against legitimate public health officials…

Any discussion of a global resurgence of polio MUST include the fact that US intelligence officials posed as public health officials in Pakistan as part of their reconnaissance to secure Osama Bin Laden, going so far as to secure DNA samples from children in the compound under this ruse.

i live in france and tipping is not obligatory here. the thing is that even the minimum wage is pretty good, currently about $13.23 (€9.53). thus it is no surprise that a lot of americans complain about the rudeness of the waitstaff and lousy service. the staff are not dependent on tips to survive and not kissing the…

I'm from the UK and have also worked in service there. My experience is that service is generally fine, but that British people in general have a somewhat lower/different expectation of what constitutes "good service." When I first moved to the US I found servers (and retail workers) to be rather overly friendly and…

Because the expectations of "friendliness" differ widely by culture, I think it's more effective to look at the quality of service in non-tipping venues in the U.S. Think of the service you get from coffee shops, or restaurants where you order from a counter, or fast food restaurants. Service seems to be highly…