This all sounds wonderful, but for one thing: Gustave Flaubert was a novelist, not a philosopher. The French are quite used to writers who are both, but M. Flaubert was not one of them.

Don't go then either.

Every tourist gets to go one time. After that, unforgivable. Unless you're doing TKTS. Then it's a necessary evil.

Yeah, but then I'd have to live in Texas. Fuck that.

I read Gawker media all day, supplemented with books on my Kindle Cloud reader and various food blogs (thanks to Lifehacker for turning me on to Serious Eats).

OK, my parents' story is cuter than me and my girlfriends' story:

I read the first sentence of your comment and thought "Sounds like my relationship with Men's Health," and then boom.

So... it's practicing properly.

They're likely an international firm, and it's standard in Europe to capitalize all the letters of the surname to indicate what, exactly, is in the surname. Also, as someone else pointed out, aquisition seems to be the English spelling.

http://dolphindon.com/

Beat me to it.

Here is the apology. It looks fairly sincere to me.

OK, did a little digging. This is the last thing I found on the topic. It sounds like he got caught out being ignorant of something that he sincerely had no idea about. He's not exactly a gender studies specialist, and it's conceivable that trans issues had never occupied his attention. Shit, I've been a Jez…

That link didn't work.

Uh, did you read the memo?

I've been reading PA for years, and haven't been aware of any transphobia. Granted, I probably missed something, but could you point me to something specific they've said?

You're right, those kids SHOULD get off your lawn.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Santorum is wrong to compare Obamacare to Apartheid because unlike Obamacare, many Republicans supported Apartheid.</p>&mdash; Frank Conniff (@FrankConniff) <a href="https://twitter.com/FrankConniff/s…">December 6, 2013</a></blockquote>

Apparently white privilege can occasionally save lives.

Can women become 0311's yet? What's the benefit of going to Infantry School if they're not going to infantry units?