Do you watch The Newsroom? There was an episode about exactly that - the news team in the show refused to cover the Case Anthony trial because it was taking away from the fact that it was about justice, not entertainment, and they used Nancy Grace's show as an example.

All I saw.

I think he mean irredentist, meaning the canines have bad teeth.

Come on, Texas. We can do this.

That struck me as an odd word choice, also. I understand the word, but its usage here doesn't make much contextual sense, nor does it add to the sentence or post. I feel like someone was trying to be clever, but didn't quite get the right word.

Now all I can think about is the episode of South Park right after Mr(s) Garrison's sex change, when (s)he discovers how lesbians "do it". This guy should watch that.

Virginian lesbians, however, may continue to scissor in peace.

This circus can't hold a candle to the unprecedented international media festival that was the O.J. trial.

I've read four unauthorized biographies of Smith's life

That may be true, but for me that's not the takeaway here. Molly West chose to put herself out there via social media, unlike, say, Rachel Jeantel, who never asked to be the center of public scrutiny. She is "mortified" not because the picture was circulated (she knew it would be), but because the response was not…

Oh, so it's only stereotypical people that you judge. Well, that makes it okay, then.

"Events like this are the reasons stigma exist."
No, people who cannot hold an opinion without spreading it far and wide are the reasons stigma exist. I'm another "high-functioning" smoker (medical reasons, though I might smoke if I weren't sick as well). I'm college-educated, and no, I wouldn't rather smoke than go to…

Yet acting like they were doing these children a huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge favor in the name of God. I have to admit, it's a pretty easy bubble for your crimes. I mean, you're an Evangelical with good intentions. How could you do any wrong?

I'm not the hugest Dan Savage fan in the world, but I love the experiment he did where he changed around genders but otherwise told the same story, giving the same advice, just to show his readers how their reactions and what they deem as "good advice" is completely different if they perceive the letter-writer to be…

I don't think she anticipated such hypervigilance. In future, even the lightest jokes will be first run past a committee of Concerned Commenters.

Let's all be outraged because we don't understand sarcasm!

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Laura is herself fat, so I'm pretty sure she was being sarcastic.

"...it came off as being more oriented toward recruiting for the church rather than providing children with loving, comfortable homes..."

I am rarely embarrassed about anything I watch in front of my husband because he watches NASCAR, but Skins... I'll watch it in front of him, and then spend half an hour after each episode explaining why it's not shameful. NOT SHAMEFUL, DAMN IT!!!