Besides, if all supporters of the campaign started using it, it would make things extremely confusing for social and healthcare workers. In other words, it’s another Internet hoax.

That’s how Bill Cosby got away with it for so long, apparently.

I missed it! I missed it! Yay for Mark and Allen!

Wait, did Mark get married? When? For real?

My guess is he wants to show her that he can, and will, keep her in line any time he wants. Because he is legally allowed to do so and he believes he should.

So basically she longs for a country where everybody speaks the languages of the natives, right? Right. ‘kay.

the mother of the boy arrived at the hospital intoxicated, but was not arrested since the child showed no signs of physical harm

Very likely not. But kudos to her for striking back so effectively.

This is EPIC. I never tire of looking at it.

Funny how it never seemed to me like he wanted to be forgiven. This reminds me of the Polanski case: Samantha Geimer says she wants to let it go, which is understandable, but I don’t remember her asking for forgiveness, since Polanski never asked for it. I can understand Johnson not wanting to dwell on her trauma, but…

Everyone has a right to be as innocuously eccentric as they wish. I don’t think she realizes that just by virtue of being allowed to talk to the press and make herself heard she’s already being historically inaccurate.

If that were really obvious you wouldn’t even be arguing about it. You genuinely believe that a woman can prevent her own rape by taking “precautions”. Jesus. I can’t believe I wasted precious minutes on this.

This is intensely bizarre as we’re in Brooklyn right now and last night we came across two side-by-side trailers with “LUCY” and “DESI” written on the doors. Probably unrelated, but still uncanny.

Women in Muslim countries get raped in spite of being covered head to toe. Indian women get raped. Women in miniskirts get raped and IT IS STILL NOT THEIR FAULT.

This reminds me, for a lot of reasons, of a rape that allegedly took place last week in the south of Italy. A tourist was gang-raped, and her rapists posted a picture of themselves celebrating the fact on Facebook (they were caught, of course, but God knows if they’ll ever be convicted: Italian courts do not have the…

Rape isn’t an accident. It’s a choice somebody makes at the expense of somebody else. It’s not at all like riding your bike with the lights off.

So Rayanne is now basically Lady Cora? Cool.

I think I remember Magellan, too! But I started working at a dot com in the late Nineties and the tech people there had me switch to Altavista (and Google soon after, of course).

Oh God, so you too belong to the Altavista generation?

I think I sent my first e-mail in 1995, from a public computer at my college. I wanted to keep in touch with a friend who was away on a student exchange, and we wrote to each other almost daily. All those emails are lost now, like tears in the rain, but I’m sure they were beautiful.