I just wanted to drop by to say that while I'm deeply sorry that your mother killed herself, and you have the right to call it anything you like, I find the idea of "death by suicide actively offensive.

"Brit" is a target designation not a xenophobic remark. Could he have used "Man?" Yes. But since the British press is known for being rather vile, and since the man is a member of the British press, 'Brit' is colloquial shorthand.

As far as giving advice goes, I completely understand why someone would avoid gendered pronouns as a means of ensuring that the advice given isn't colored by bias.

I dislike the push from certain segments to adopt new, explicitly neutered pronouns for everything. Granted that's gone on for awhile, but it still drives…

I do NOT have puppet cancer.

I'm really bothered by the way they handled this.

The pitch should've looked like this, from Day 1:

"If you can't be online, no problem — you can play your games just like you do now, on the Xbox 360. But if you *are* online and you buy the digital version of a game, you can loan that game to friends and family,…

Certain reddit users say a *lot* of misogynistic stuff at times, but none of this strikes me that way. Virtually all of these could be gender-neutral and in a thread that self-selects for boys complaining about girls, that's what you're going to get.

I hate passive-aggressiveness, too. Granted, I hate it in both…

"Why does the Wall Street Journal, the best-selling newspaper in the country, publish Taranto's drivel? Are they in it for the pageviews, or do they really think his point of view is worthwhile?"

I am not certain I understand this.

I agree that institutionalized racism is a form of racism. I agree that American society can be described as racist. Less overtly so than 50 years ago, but racist. But you say "racism, prejudice, bias, and discrimination are not interchangeable."

Problem is, I'm not sure how to…

It's not very hard to determine if an organ like a lung is going to *fit.* You might conceivably constrain some organs more than others (at least slightly), but when it comes to lungs, if they can't inflate or if the heart can't pump blood to them properly, they won't work.

I seriously doubt that after 50 years, we…

Here's what's happened to date, as I understand it:
1) Sebelius declines to intervene.
2) Parents appeal to judge.
3) Judge orders girl put on transplant list, *pending* court hearing on June 14.

That means that there's been no argument and no facts presented. The experts, so to speak, have not been called.

The idea…