That sound you heard? It was the joke, flying over your head.

You're just saying that because you hate French-y things. You're an anti-francophonabastard, and therefore I'm going to pretend you're neither clever nor funny.

It's sad... I love having my ideas challenged by an intelligent debater. It helps me to think things through and make sure my position is logically consistant and reflects the way I truly feel. Now, it seems like any attempt to discuss issues just comes down to a 6th grade name fight with "libtards" and "rethuglicans"…

Actually, I may not have actually said she made a mistake before, so I apologize. I'd been trying to keep the focus on the people I feel most responsible, which are the creepy adults, but I at least alluded to it when saying "if the worst thing she does is take a picture of her ass she's doing great" - it's not…

I'm fine with saying she made a mistake - in fact, I've said that already. I'm just not okay with the attention being on her mistake, which seems relatively minor on the list of mistakes common to teenage girls. Why is it that people feel the need to point out that she made a mistake? Does it absolve the adults in the…

And yet, what I actually said was that this problem is rampant on both sides. So I'm unclear on where I was a hypocrite. I never expressed an opinion about conservatives or liberals... you did, Cleese did, I didn't.

What do you call the disease where you boil down the positions and concepts of a person down to a single dimension like politics and then assume you know something about them? Because I think that one's running rampant through political commenters of every stripe.

I'm not really sure why the bodybuilding.com incident is a big deal. Sure, she trolled them... they got trolled by a 17-year-old... this is a big deal, why? The pictures she posted there were all fully clothed, holding up signs telling them to fuck off, and in response to people claiming she wasn't who she said. I'd…

The jury isn't supposed to have any contact with the defendant outside the court room, in order to prevent jury tampering. So, having contact with the defendant was the reason he was dismissed. That's not the reason he went to jail. He went to jail for bragging about how friending the defendant got him dismissed and…

He did something stupid for his own benefit, then bragged about it... why, exactly, can't I blame him?

Doesn't really matter. She was 14. When adults do creepy shit with a 14-year-old, the moral weight falls on the adult every time. The fact that the fallout has continued for years, until she was an adult, I don't find a compelling reason to blame her for anything.

So the article says. She's 14. Creepy. As. Hell.

Gawker ran a story about a 14-year-old whose picture is on damn near every "ex-GF" or "self shot" website. Shit's creepy. As. Hell. I don't know how many Giz readers have kids, but the idea that someone is beating off thinking about your kid... makes my skin crawl.

I don't really know anything about it... but if you had to do your job for a tenth of the pay and work 14-16 hours a day, six days a week, it probably wouldn't matter what the work was, or how comfortable the chairs, right?

I think that's the biggest gripe with cable. People have been clamoring for a la carte TV for decades. You always end up with 90% of the channels being stuff you don't watch, and being forced to pick a "bundle" in order to get one channel.

Honestly, I'd be willing to pay for cable, and sit through commercials, if I could watch what I wanted when I wanted. Granted, I wouldn't be willing to spend as much as the cable company thinks it's worth (because it seems to think it's worth an awful lot now, without that feature). But it would be worth something.

I looked it up! This website says the stuff thrown in the air in general is called "ejecta," and the specific materials are called "blocks," "bombs," or "pyroclastics," depending on what they're made of and whether they're molten or solid.

Yeah... Messages, Settings, Safari, App Store, Photos, Phone, Weather, YouTube, iTunes, Stocks, Voice Memos, Mail, Calculator,* Camera,* Contacts* are top-lit...

Always an outlier! My ex and I didn't change our relationship statuses for 3 or 4 months after we broke up because we were still living together and didn't want to deal with the hail of comments from people with whom we were "friends" only in the Facebook sense wondering why we still lived together (we had a lease...…

Well, whether it's worth the extra $18 or not, when AT&T first activated their GSM network upgrading was as easy as swapping SIMs. The only hiccup was if they stored their phonebook on the phone rather than the SIM, but even then most phones were limited in the number of contacts they could store, so transferring them…