“You have to divorce yourself from history.” That’s the most ridiculous fucking thing you can say about the Middle East.

Im not disagreeing with you but you can still hate him for what he did AND feel compassion for his family at the same him. Vanessa was with him since they were 17 and she lost her daughter too. Kobe may have been a piece of shit but I feel for what his family is going through right now 

Can you imagine. If fortune shines on us, this time next year we will be looking at President Someone Who is Not Donald Trump?

Jared Kushner, senior adviser to the President, says the White House’s Middle East plan is “a great deal” and if Palestinians reject it, “they’re going to screw up another opportunity, like they’ve screwed up every other opportunity that they’ve ever had in their existence.”

Wow, a polarizing NBA ledgend dies in a tragic accident during what is one of the biggest weeks for American Football... if only there was a blog to go for stories about those topics.

I'm surprised no one has died on this show

Years ago, I had a friend who was trying to get on the show. While he was already very overweight, he was actually trying to gain more weight because of what the producers said they wanted, which was obviously a spectacle.

Indeed. But the Biggest Loser has the added element of where it is shaming a significant portion of the population as well. I’m tone deaf, and I’ve never felt shamed by American Idol because I can’t sing. 

“...an overzealous MeToo movement, which supposedly spurs women to erase a night of bad sex by alleging assault.”

I picked out the shade that I see as mauve. Or what I used to see my exMIL wear in polyester sweaters and pants. Burned in my memory.

Also that suit is not fucking coral. Coral is a shade with orange undertones. While JayZ is wrong that his suit is mauve, he’s at least right that his pink suit in toward the blue/violet side of the pink spectrum than the orange/peach.  Not enough to classify as a mauve, but miles away from coral.

Duhhh it’s a dusty rose.

Blush is what this color is called. It’s all over the furniture stores these days (and actually very nice to live around).

Jay Z needs his cataracts checked

Gizmodo’s Tom McKay, who says, “I would say, pastel, carnation, or coral. If anyone disagrees with me they are wrong because I am a tetrachromat.”

Dear Muggles: Please stop thinking of us as a human shield to use as a buffer for socially acceptable women against creeps and monsters. Because that is a super fucked up way to think about other people, which is what we are. 

Right?! Misogyny, rape, and violence toward women ARE NOT BECAUSE OF FUCKING BLUE BALLS. Getting laid doesn’t magically turn men into nice guys! IT IS NOT SEX WORKERS’ JOBS TO MAGICALLY DEFUSE DANGEROUS MEN. Jesus fucking Christ.

Ya, that isn’t a solution. An incels problem is not the lack of sex that is a symptom, an incels problem is the profound self-loathing and misplaced anger that drives people away from them. Making them pay for sex wont do anything, it might even make it worse. The only way to help an incel move on is to admit to…

Honestly, this is also why I get angry when people suggest that the way to deal with incels is to send them to sex workers. Sex workers are human beings performing a service; we shouldn’t condone having misogynists anywhere near them. Can you imagine if men did this to other service workers too? Would you take your…

And yet, the Gawker alumni books seem to be a cut above. Jia Tolentino, Lindy West, Annalee Newitz, Drew Magary (I’m sure I’m missing quite a few).