I do this, too. It's crazy. Typically I wake up about 5 minutes before he does in the morning.

Free focus group information for medical/drug research purposes? I have a hard time seeing how it is insidious, but I can envision scenarios where having access to this info could be profitable.

Sure, but the mechanisms for surveillance are much bigger and more sophisticated now. Joe McCarthy would have killed to have the juggernaut that is today's NSA at his disposal.

Agree. If it can be reaped for profit and/or used to undermine our civil liberties, rest assured it won't be or remain "anonymous." People were doing eyerolls when people were voicing surveillance concerns about facebook in its early days, and look where we are now.

Clearly, I wrote my dissertation on the wrong topic!

Seriously. Bad trolling is like layering fail atop fail.

I will go out on a limb and say he needs a better grasp of how d) trolling works.

I hear you. I have an exceptionally big ass for my frame, which leads to almost everything fitting more snugly in that area. The result: a near-constant battle with VPL. I exclusively wore thongs in college just to avert this issue.

Except when it comes from a place of competitiveness and judgement.

Amen. I have various family members who are weird and judgmental about how many children one has. Weirdly, childfree gets a pass, but only child parenting draws that passive aggressive judgment (you must be poor, incompetent, a slacker, etc.). They also judge SAHMs, so the only way to win is to have a high-powered…

Agreed. It is no wonder that the neighbors took the bull by the horns to reign in this pigheaded behavior.

I don't know, it does sound like these wedding guests are behaving like they were raised in a barn.

I am inclined to agree with you. If the image was of a bound man of color, they would have never gotten away with this. As they shouldn't have, of course, in this hypothetical scenario. But since the image is of a woman, there is a whole host of bullshit socially acceptable cultural excuses-"jokes"- to fall back on:…

Yeah, that's what I meant.

TV land fat. I would put Lena Dunham and Mindy Kahling in this category, too.

You missed the...nevermind.

You are misguided.

Right on. Supreme Court appointments are pretty much the only reason that the Presidential election matters.

This needs to be said, again and again. Romney is/was absolutely part of an evil, destructive system, and loving his family does not negate the harm brought by that. See also: Bush's paintings.

I'm with you on this, and also angrier about the cavalier attitude toward texting and driving.