Do any of you understand what it's like to be a state prosecutor? To have a victim constantly dodge your phone calls because they don't want to deal with it or can't be bothered? If you are subpoenaed, you have a legal obligation to testify, sometimes at pretrial events such as hearings... to not do so is breaking the…

it sucks that they did this but what's worse: locking up rape victims to make sure they cooperate, and putting their rapists in jail, or allowing victims not to show up and another rapist walks free?

I remember right after the Casey Anthony verdict, when everyone was still shocked that she was found not guilty, there were various prosecutors (who were unrelated to the case) being interviewed by courtroom pundits. The consensus that many of these prosecutors reached was basically that the problem with the American…

Okay, this may be a bit strange, but hear me out: When I was doing my undergrad, I donated my eggs. I had to get ultrasounds on a near daily basis toward the end of the hyperdeveloping process to examine how the ova were developing. IT WAS SO COOL, and all I could think when looking at my ovaries where how the…

Ia, Rutaceae fthagn!

These are gorgeous! Blincoe is like the Ernst Haeckel of food

Laced with PCP judging from her eyes...

Urgh. What is a fake geek girl? I've been accused of being a fake geek girl because I doni't conform to whatever people think is geeky. I hate Star Wars and Tolkien. Star Wars sends me into a rage, it's not sci-fi, it's fantasy that happens to occur in the future with pseudo fake Asian philosophy. Star Trek, meh. Star…

On his branch in R'lyeh, dead Cthulemon lies dreaming.

Fuck no. I love my nerd girlfriends, I have a gay crush on them. That being said, fake nerds do come in both genders. Just read Valley Wag any day of the week. But I have no patience with sexist assholes, which usually are annoying steroid gamers with a big mouth. As a gay man, I guess I'm more aware of that.

Actually, at 50, I just can't get fired up with hipster hatred as so many at Gawker seem to be. Maybe it's a generational thing. To me, they are just kids. And we all envy youth so much don't we? In time, in their 30s, 40s and 50s—I mean we all sell out to the Man eventually right?—I'm sure they'll be kvetching about…

Hipster has no meaning in itself anymore. It only has meaning in comparison and thus is only relative. By that standard, I can guarantee that 80% of the people visiting this site can be considered hipsters by someone.My impression is that when some people call someone a "hipster", they really mean non-awkward nerd…

As a nerd, I just can't escape the feeling that hipsters are emulating me in order to make fun of me.

I thought that was the actual definition of hipster. I usually think of it as, "Anyone younger and having more fun than I am."

So you were into beards before they were cool?

I kid, I kid.

Does the word "hipster" even mean anything anymore?

Frankly, people's various definitions of "Hipster" have now become so broad and various that the term no longer has any meaning.