Don’t need to know more. It’s made by Supergiant Games so its an instabuy.

I’m serious, here. My favorite carry-on bag is a FAB NY Lightweight 15-inch one-compartment carry-on. Pictured is the MLP variant, which costs about $50, but mine was plain and cost me only $10 (!!!). I took acrylic paints and painted pictures of my dogs on the outside. It’s personalized, cheap, and it’s lasted…

I’m serious, here. My favorite carry-on bag is a FAB NY Lightweight 15-inch one-compartment carry-on. Pictured is…

I need some advice on how you define the word ‘can’.

I forget who said it, but the saying goes, “You don’t pay a woman for sex. You pay the woman to go away afterwards.”

Maybe empathy — like all human talents — is a tool? It can be used badly, to distract ourselves from important details. Or it can be used correctly, to sympathize with victims and keep ourselves from being ravaging narcissistic monsters. Not that Paul Bloom would understand the latter usage.

No, that won’t happen. Io9 brings the savage snark when a movie deserves to be eviscerated. I’m looking forward to this one. (The review, that is. I’m dreading the movie, and I know I’m going to see it this weekend because my girlfriend already asked me to take her.)

I love it when people tell me that they don’t believe evil really exists, and in response I’m able to point to just about anything Richard Nixon did...

A person can be racist with a single sentence, sometimes with a single word. That’s not structural or systematic. It’s racist because of a history of similar systematic biases. Someone can state a bias that doesn’t have that history and get away with it — such as saying that they’re going to push white actors off a…

Thanks. I didn’t detect any patronizing there. I did not know that ‘reverse racism’ had become emotionally loaded — I thought it was a fine description for a social phenomenon.

Oh, I also have my doubts that enforced bias is the best answer. But right now it’s the most socially acceptable answer. To get along with society, I’m willing to accept it. (Until the next anti-injustice fad sweeps in, of course. I’m hoping it involves masks and spandex tights.)

But it’s not fair to say, “We need a black actor on this ballot, so we have to push this qualified white actor off the list.”

As I understand it — and as a white male, I struggle sometimes — reverse racism is not racism because it is correcting a long history of racism. It is bias, but bias by itself is not racism. Sometimes bias is good, because it fixes wrongs from the past. Bias that reinforces past wrongs is bad.

This is the point! Coarseness and crudeness is the entire point! The voters are sick of machined, plastic politicians. The coarser and cruder the better. Why aren’t people getting this? Why aren’t pundits getting this?!?

Yes, he can. America is divided such that any of the two major party candidates has about a 50% chance of winning. A very small percentage change one way or another can give someone the presidency.

Racist, Misogynist, Dominionist: You must pick one. (Then pick a second as the VP candidate.)

Can you confirm the rumor I’ve heard that goat foreplay invariably involves watersports? And that that’s why they constantly stink?

Where did you get the English version of this manga? I can only find it in Japanese. Nice find.

54 percent of likely Republican primary voters think that Obama is a Muslim. That’s a majority. Not of all Republicans (that figure is more like 43 percent, from the same link), but of all the Republicans that matter in the primaries.

This *is* the sane Republican stance. Obama has a right — even an obligation — to nominate someone. Congress has the prerogative to reject that nominee. But Congress doesn’t want the bad press it will get by rejecting 3 or 4 nominees before Obama leaves office. So they would prefer it if Obama just declined to…

So the one Republican who isn’t a dick is the one who tried to knife a kid in high school. Gotcha.