If people are cutting back, either it's because they don't know about the delicious cane sugar soda pictured in the header photo, or they do, and they're quitting for their own good.

Latepost, but I just kind of figured a lot of conservative/GOP/"waffling centrist whose favored political platforms are still toxic and based on really fucked up concepts of who 'deserves' what and on what basis and who gets angry when you bring it up" voters were simply coalescing around internet-based media or…

I know dumbphones can be good — All my phones thus far have been "dumbphones", which retroactively includes the mid-aughts' "Well Aren't We Mr. Hot Shit Modernity Guy" award-winner Motorola Razor, I guess.

I feel like I'll wait for one of the competitor 7-inch tablets with expandable storage, or maybe stick it out til Samsung releases another Galaxy Player big enough for my hands (The Galaxy Player 5.0 is a great minitablet, but it can only carry on faithfully for so long).

When the Nexus with the most storage (I'd never…

It's funny, there's a sort of tendency more frequently present in lower and higher end hotels to offer more freebies; the lower end hotels are fighting for the last dollar and want to lure customers away from their competitors, so each thing they don't have but which a modern traveler might reasonly expect them to is…

"No; the data they reference shows that the majority of people self-reporting symptoms of mental illness are female."
Yes! And in men, instability or illness is often glorified — see the uncomfortable, upside-down-world praise that business profiles are prone to lavishing on CEOs with notoriously scary, hair-trigger…

This company is making important steps. Now, if they could just release a lid with a strainer attachment so I can spare the expense of an actual cocktail shaker, or the time-cost of futzing around trying to make one of my own (I've already tried and I think that's within my reach but outside my grasp in terms of DIY…

They're not necessarily dumbing it down; while it's certainly simpler not to need screwdrivers or a hex wrench, that's not the same thing as people being unable to understand how to use them. This post explicitly gives the reasoning behind the concept as "being able to use a coin to assemble your furniture instead of…

I recall an Onion news brief from 2008 about McCain describing Palin and it went along those lines (it used phrases like "gams up to here", and while it was entirely facetious, of course, I can grasp why I can't find it anywhere on the site now).

With regards to CNN: Now, I understand that memories are not impermeable to our own biases and the process of time itself, especially since I'd like to think I've learned a fair amount in the last decade, and even meaningfully processed some of it. But, now, I've been watching CNN with some kind of frequency or…

A child has no place in something so hateful, and neither does a dog. They have something in common though: Meanness is something they have to learn.

Update: I had no idea I was listening to this with sound not working in my browser; I've watched it a second time with the sound on and it's stunning and brilliant either way.

This made me tear up and feel my breath catch in my chest so much that I had to comment on it. This is just amazing, gorgeous storytelling.

Bingo! Very rude. (Though, the same sort of person who would call a donor to a gay family a father would probably pry leeringly into a straight family's history, not to mention being the sort of person to treat sex and sexuality as inherently lurid to begin with)

Wrong reference! It's "Tekeli-li"!

I was actually thinking, "a 7-in Windows 8 tablet might actually be pretty good". I've seen and used the Surface and Samsung's ATIV tablet, and the Surface is okay compared to Windows 8 laptops (going by my own experience, plus reviews and comments by friends with more experience), but a seven inch tablet, if built…

Well, his demeanor helps. It's a blend of matter-of-factness and peaceable understanding, rather than a more jaded instinct to try and make himself look like he's got the most guile in the room. Some people do that to advertise the idea that they know how people hurt other people, so you'd better not even bother…

I knew about that. The thing is, as much as I don't want to undergo what he did, I admire the resilience with which he faced and overcame it, and I think his consistently forthright attitude about those problems has been incredibly brave, especially when he's under the pressure of a new release and a return to touring.

I am vindicated in my desire to one day grow up to be Adam Ant.

UM freshman here, and the administration's response was better than I expected it to be, too, considering how little they did to promote the mandatory seminar (led by Jackson Katz this year, I thought he did a terrific job emphasizing the importance of not being complicit in events where one is a bystander to sexually…