Let me guess: Australia? Australia gets screwed over by the Mercator projection pretty hard. As a kid I always wondered why that tiny little island gets to be its own continent...

Ah! Thanks. I read it as: I've been an asshole the entire 4+ months we've been dating, but during that time I've made some real improvements. (I admit mostly skimming to get to the good stuff)

I've changed a lot over the last 4+ months

It's a good thing they're also banning everything else that you're supposed to keep out of the reach of children. You know, the stuff that can kill them.

the politics of offense and faux outrage are wearing thin for a lot of folks.

I've bought a few games from them. The first time I heard about #gamergate was when my coworker mentioned it in passing, and I assumed that was what he was talking about.

You can use Bing to search for other search engines. I think, actually, that is its official use.

I wasn't sure if I wanted to read restaurant stories that weren't horrible train wrecks. I'm glad I did. The last one was especially good!

I saw my first Google Glass in the wild the other day.

New?

This has been very educational. I thought shade had to be conveyed through a look only. And, to add to my embarrassment, I thought people still used the word "beef." Oh, how wrong I was.

TWO DAYS AGO, the hospital in Texas admitted that it made an error in diagnosing Thomas Eric Duncan. That should be plenty of time for the people on 24 hour news channels, whose job it is to be informed, to get informed. Yet this morning on CNN some asshole was claiming that "we don't know how those two nurses…

Yeah, they could do a better job of promoting people. Unfortunately, that comes down to the writers who have better things to do like write and stuff. It would be nice if they hired an Admin—someone who only patrolled comments for abuse and who actively sought to identify people who can express their opinions in…

I know what it's like to... ...have to burp people

Fixed:

Another improvement arrived a couple of days ago; you can now flag comments from the drop-down menu, and the writers will be alerted.

To me, rites of initiation seem to come from the need to solidify the group, so to speak. Having a shared secret tends to force a bond between people, as does experiencing a shared trauma. Requiring people to endure something in order to join a group makes that group exclusive, and what is excluded is weakness—only…

Don't worry; I'm doing my part to bring the average down.

Lol. Are you the guy who interrupted me reading American Pastoral at PF Chang's a few months ago? (No, I don't really think that you are, but coincidentally, that did happen)

The vitriol toward ever speaking to strangers in some feminist circles, no matter how polite they are, is bizarre to me. I don't see why doing so is incompatible with respect for women and think that it has more to do with people with anti-social/shy leanings using feminist issues as a cover but I don't ever feel like…