On the contrary, the idea behind the sharing economy was always for consumers and providers to share the costs and the risks, while the profits go to the VCs who move fast and break things. 

It’s such a pity that aggregation sites so seldom include the most important details, which are seldom the most clickable ones. In this case, the fact that North Korea’s last underground nuclear test caused the mountain to collapse, essentially destroying their nuclear program, is a rather important detail, as is the…

Can we have some male cheerleaders for the WNBA, please? We don’t have to sexually harass, abuse, exploit, over-regulate and under-pay them. It would just be nice, both for the obvious reason, and because of the conversations it would start.

At a liberal arts college in Portland that had fewer students than my Maryland high school, I was helping organize an event with half a dozen other students, including one that said “nobody bothers me” under his breath in response to something. I said, “nobody bothers me, either!” And that is how two people from the…

No it wasn’t. They never are, because the event is supposed to honor the first amendment.

Anti-Semitism on the left is a problem that is never going to go away as long as we keep treating it as though it is exactly like right-wing anti-Semitism. If we treat someone who is so angry and disgusted at the way some Jews have oppressed people of color, be it here or in Palestine, that they tar all Jews with that…

Exactly like that; I stopped hanging on on Jezebel entirely. Still procrastinate on a couple of the others when the marketplace is empty until there’s new work files to claim, though.

Yeah, I was called a racist once or twice before I learned to understand the difference between left and right wing racism and so learned about micro-aggressions, but being called an anti-Semite is a new one.

The other “discussion” is even worse.

Including Gary Johnson.

Including Gary Johnson.

We could go down quite a rabbit hole with the names here.

That’s because Trump wanted Marla Maples to abort her. She’d still be persona non grata were it not for his candidacy.

What copy editor?

My roommate thinks we live in the future state of Cascadia, whereas I think it will be Pacifica.

You mean like the agenda of their Republican AP Government teacher, who was actually teaching about special interests in general and the NRA in particular the day of the shooting? Four times that day, he talked about how after every tragedy, the NRA goes to work as soon as the politicians are done offering thoughts…

You know what your saying that by expressing these opinions, I am somehow “bowing and scraping” to the black women on this site reminds me of?

I will ask you again to explain how pointing out that we can’t effectively deal with anti-Semitism on the left without recognizing the ways in which it is different than the anti-Semitism on the right is dismissing anti-Semitism.

Please explain how pointing out that we can’t effectively deal with anti-Semitism on the left without recognizing the ways in which it is different than the anti-Semitism on the right is dismissing anti-Semitism.

I’m in my 40s, and I just disconnected my phone entirely and just use my laptop for everything. It’s like having a landline again, and I’m loving it. I probably wouldn’t if I didn’t work from home, and I’m sure I’ll get a phone again eventually, but that did cut down on the obsessive news-reading, which cut down on…