Agree with your sentiment but I also think "douche", like "terrorist" or "hipster", is a meaningless label used by the addle minded so let's say it's just the new "+1"

This. To paraphrase Llyod Bensten: I know Pot, I worked with Pot, and you sir are no Pot.

I love that Taiwan takes banal and tedious American pasttimes and turns them into bloodsport. (see also: legislating)

Uh, why does this outstanding Mighty Ducks reference not have 1 Billion stars?

This drunk buffoon was inadvertently teaching us all an important lesson: enjoy life, stop documenting it. Please.

It is funny how people assume that pernicious state surveillance magically stopped in 1980 and all surveillance today is well-regulated and of the purest intentions.

Captain Ron did it better

Since the military says it won't foot the bill, anyone know if anyone has started a fund or kickstarter or something to help pay for the therapy if allowed? This would be a worthy cause considering the larger injustice at work.

Tejada will spend his time off staying up for days at a time, chain smoking and writing long, rambling screenplays where all the charters talk really fast and nothing ever seems to happen.

When are you guys going to join the bandwagon and stop using that silly racist moniker? You're all a bunch of sentimental bleeding heart liberals deep down inside and we all know it

Absolutely, it's terrible what's going on there. I'll repost what I said about it a few weeks ago on Gawker (because I'm lazy.)

I think we're more or less in agreement.

Oh, I believe there was sincere outrage both in Russia and among the media about these laws to be sure - just not with the White House, not pre-Snowden. According to a time specific google search, the only evidence the U.S. government said anything about Russia's anti-gay laws before the NSA stories was via a State…

I don't think it's progress is my point, it's cynical geopolitics. I'm all for applauding actual progress and do often over at Gawker.

I got carried away with my triple negatives, my point was that proving the President doesn't truly care about gay rights in Russia is a strange burden of proof that was entered into the dicussion to provide further handwaving in the absence of a broader conversation about America's other, more urgent, geopolitical …

Wouldn't that only make me three quarters full of shit then?

Good catch. Thank you.

Yes, typically great human rights gestures take place on Jay Leno. Jay Leno is the historic forum for sweeping declarations of equality, as opposed to middle brow calculation where one can espouse talking points to a large audience without questions or cynical retort.

Fatuous and petty parsing of words. Creating a moving goal post of standards of opinion that any thinking person could figure out themselves without any qualification of "I feel" or "here's my opinion".

First off, any time the President uses Jay Leno as a venue to discuss a human rights this should raise eye brows.