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Who are you, Hit Bull Win Steak? Do you blog? Do you write? Do you have other things that can make us collapse into hysterics? Send them to us! This is your time to shine! Because god damn, that was good.

With blogs, you can moderate comments so that only one troll gets through, and then people can take turns whacking him (see Scalzi'z "Whatever," TNH's "Making Light.") It may be unpleasant for the moderator to have to read the stuff, but at least the community is free to engage in conversation.

But twitter isn't really…

That is technically, yes, the driest possible explanation of what the five conservatives on the Court did. One suspects, though, that the goal of the Republican justices was simply to make whatever decision helped the Republican party get the most votes.

There's a very good article in the current New Republic about…

Thanks for this. Agree very much. The only thing I'd say is that if Gawker springs for 1-2 comment moderators, a lot of the idiots could be pre-screened out.

Am I the only straight guy out there who finds Lena Dunham attractive & cute and would date her in a heartbeat? (Granted, this is Lena Dunham, successful showrunner, not Hannah Horvath, unsuccessful writer, but just based on looks, either one's got it goin' on.) She's not fat. She's normal-sized, and she sure as heck…

This is the best thing ever. The return of "Tiempo, Tiempo, Tiempo Hatchet!" is astounding. I'm reading through 2011, 2010, and 2009 right now. Wondering how many cross-year references I missed.

What's with assuming all of these mass killers are super-rational and determined all of a sudden? We *don't* actually know that all of them would find another route to their goals. And we certainly don't know that, stripped of an *easy* route, they'd automatically succeed before being tripped up or caught along a…

We remember a very different 2008 campaign, clearly. See, in the campaign *I* remember, the media spent three weeks (21 days) obsessing over Jeremiah Wright, Obama's *former* pastor whom he hadn't visited since 1988 and distanced himself from, and less than 1 day discussing the extremist views of John Hagee, whose…