I really like the beginning of the video where he complains about not getting an advanced warning of his arrest and the charges against him. It’s like he’s used to living in an entirely different legal system in which crimes are negotiated away with money before charges are ever pressed. That part alone convinces me…

A 43 year old essay? Obviously a reason to totally discredit a candidate. Days old support for a pedophile? Well, that’s just an expression of religious freedom.

Over at Gawker they had an article about a man who was roofied and robbed of an expensive watch by two ladies he met at a bar. The first poster wrote a tongue and cheek comment to the effect of it serves him right given he was so flashy. It was the bat signal for every Cheeto licker to scream victim blaming, many of…

a large percentage of the ultra-Orthodox population in Israel do not work and do not join the army

If you’re reading this as “the Hawks suck,” you’re not reading it at all.

Easiest request you say, yet you fail to deliver. This video definitely is offensive to christians but how is it triggering? If you don’t see the difference between an experience and a worldview then you know this argument is just gonna be pointless shadowboxing. It would only be triggering to christians if they got…

I think there is a difference in something like history versus literature. An average human being has taken history, watched the news, etc and usually has some idea that yes, there are going to be disturbing things because people suck. But someone who has never read certain works of literature or genres may or may not…

Thank you for this—this is a great piece. There’s so much hand-wringing about trigger warnings and censorship and people yelling about how “being offended doesn’t make you right,” and I think it’s all kind of a red herring. Of course students should be challenged, of course professors shouldn’t be constrained—nobody’s…

You know, when an athlete does something that engenders public criticism, you often hear people say something along the lines of, “this is what he signed up for.” In those cases, I tend to think that such a statement is inaccurate. Yes, maybe we should accept that one of the prices of fame is that (potentially…

1) He was 15.

I hate the concussion debate. I hate the Twitter doctors that think they know when a player suffered a concussion, and I hate the people that blindly trust team doctors and players when they have every incentive to lie and skirt an already weak policy. I think we will have a more in-depth piece on how concussion tests…

Apparently, Phil missed the memo where the corner 3 is kind of a good shot.

Every time Phil talks, he makes a better case that Pops is the greatest coach of this generation.

I’ve interviewed the author of this post and Emma Sulkowicz for Gawker. I consider myself to have a reasonable bullshit detector, and a strong grasp of the issues involved at Columbia. I found the author and Emma surprisingly forthright, wholly credible, and supremely conscientious at all points in our interviews. I…

An order of protection wouldn’t have prevented him from murdering her.

“I can’t stress this enough,” she told Jezebel at the time. ‘The wider point here is the gamification of the harassment of women.”