One weird thing about being a professional writer is that a lot of people seem to think your job is fake.

Wow. You are very angry and very bitter. Why can I not trot out a common-sense point of view that seems to be needlessly buried by psuedo-feminist rhetoric if there is something to it?

Yeah. I'm with you on that. Being crazy hammered in public opens anybody up to terrible consequences. From predatory assholes who will try to violate your body, to predatory assholes who will run up your bar tab. (happened to me! Three hundred and fifty some odd dollars plus a hysterical call to my parents to help me…

Okay, I don't want to victim blame, yet I can see both sides here (the other side not wanting young women to end up being victimized). Can't we say something like WARNING: Overconsumption of alcohol may leave you less able to defend yourself against predatory assholes?

I hate office culture so much. The forced friendships between people you have absolutely nothing in common with except that both of you got hired by the same company, the celebrations of everyone's birthdays (and if its your birthday, you can't decline a piece of cake...), the chitchat about everyone's dating life and…

From the article about the jury's decision, it isn't clear that this decision was a result of the jury buying the defense's argument. Do you have other sources? I'm not saying a jury couldn't be wackadoodle enough to buy such a specious argument. It's just that, while the article says that (a) the shooter was…

The beauty of Brian Williams is that, just based on reading the headline, I thought it was totally believable that he actually rapped.

Jesus, this is horrible.

Sorry—I see you were being sarcastic. Reading the other comments before and after yours, it wasn't immediately apparent. ETA: If you resort to a "reading comprehension" line rather than explaining your intent, something isn't working in your comment, tone or otherwise, and it's needlessly antagonizing.