"Nailed it."

yep, i feel you, and yet, the obligation to be empathetic stands. nothing as chill as silence

I think they're going to pass laws banning gay marriage and abortion and stem cell research. They will be science deniers. They will require the teaching of their holy book in a SCIENCE class. They will require public school kids to have a moment of silence instead of a moment of learning. They will publicly question…

I like to think he has a bunch of gay friends who keep him around for his camp value. They call him "she" to make him uncomfortable and, like, dress up as him and his wife for Halloween and stuff.

No.

My name is Bill Price and I am a survivor of the infamous Dozier school from 1961, 62, 63. I have posted one other reply on this blog, but I did not go into detail about what happened to me there. I notice that people can reply to a post and ask questions if they are curious about the truth. I will offer to you an…

Anyone defending this is insane. White guilt anybody? Don't let the white guilt get into the way of your thought processes. There IS demonstrably GOOD and EVIL moral human behavior in this world. Even CHILDREN do not have to be taught what is evil REALLY evil. There is nuance in morality, but one doesn't need to…

This one time when I was tiny, I played a sheep in the church's Christmas nativity play and I wandered off the stage to find my mom which made my Sunday school teacher nearly shit a brick in rage. Now my parents mention it every single year at Christmas, bonus points if I've brought a date home.

Well shit, now they have to re-write the whole fifth season of Downton Abbey.

"Oh please. it was a tragic event where two people made mistakes."

In a more righteous universe, Britney Jean Spears actually fulfilled her destiny, which was to graduate high school, marry a kind and honest contractor, have a couple kids, work as a receptionist, coach cheerleading at the elementary school, and be the prettiest woman at the church bake sale. You can't tell me that…

Let's get lots of young white people to move into black neighborhoods so they can develop a little empathy. Added bonus is that the rent is lower! Everyone should be fine with that, right?

Soft g "gif" = show is dead to me. (2 minutes in)

Letting things calm down a bit before releasing more information wasn't a bad choice at all. If you doubt that people do stupid things when they are upset and everyone around them is upset, you've been burying your head in the sand for all of human history.

I believe he might be suggesting that the news coverage may be inadvertently fanning the flames

Dammit. While I'm not on all Gawker sites (normally Giz and LH), the community has proven to be excellent almost all the time and never needed any system to defer comments from appearing immediately. On the one hand it's great to see Gawker grow, but the clear fault in that is the good always comes with the bad.

Hey Joel, I have a question about the fix. Will responding to pending comments have the same effect as clicking the star-button to promote them? I think divorcing the two (so that star-clicking bumps a comment to the front page, but responding alone doesn't) would do a lot to reduce the power of trolls. That is,…