I’ve been saying this to friends of mine who insist on handwashing for years. Almost all of them are hardcore environmentalists*, and all refuse to believe it.

Yep, Luke pretty clearly put it on the funeral pyre in RotJ.

I've been involved with a married lesbian couple for almost a decade now, and my partner and I have been non-monogamous from the start when we started seeing each other two years ago. During those times, the couple rarely had anything else going on, and my partner and I go through long periods where we don't get…

Broad City is one of the most amazing shows on television right now, period.

Disclaimer: I understand that the anecdote I'm about to offer up is NOT REMOTELY representative of the general population and does nothing to balance any scales in the grand scheme of things.

"Says," "allegations ," "accuses," and "claims" all share the same meaning in this context: nobody's been convicted of anything, so you have to acknowledge that in some way to avoid accusations of libel.

There is only one law... HIS LAW.

Oh, I understand that the kind of rhetoric I've been employing isn't going to do much to persuade GG types. You're absolutely right that if that was my priority, I should do it in the kind of way that you're talking about. And for a long time, that sort of thing was indeed my priority.

That's because it's not ribs... it's McRib.

See, the basic assumption at your second point shows how the first point isn't nearly as horrific as a lot of nerds make it out to be. If you're making enough money that people are "exploiting" you for it, you're already waaaaaay ahead of a huge chunk of the population.

Here's the thing: I have all the sympathy in the world for people dealing with being socially awkward. Really. I went into studying human communication partly because so much of it always baffled me, and it left me feeling scared and alone for most of my childhood (things got a lot better by high school - thank god…

Amen. Hell, I was a hardcore nerd in high school during the same time period as you, but in Nebraska... and it wasn't bad at all.

This is one of the best summaries I've read of the "fuck you, ladies and minorities, YOU'RE all the ones with the privilege!" mentality that keeps popping up in this shitstorm.

This was actually a key point one of my mentor's made at a meeting one time when discussing the problem of the double-shift for women academics. She said that while it's absolutely the case that men on average need to pick up a much larger share of household work, that that won't happen until more women can learn to…

Don't forget their important secondary audience: sullen non-liberals who inexplicably spend all of their time reading liberal blogs and berating their readership in the comments section.

A number of friends and I, having recently moved from Iowa and Minnesota to New England, have made it our duty to introduce Hot Dish to the people of this strange and exotic land. We've already made several dozen converts.

Utterly horrifying.

That would be the latter.