I hope this woman (the naked one) takes Mather’s ass to the cleaners in civil court. Like, with photo evidence and an admission? Slam dunk case.

Exactly. I commented on some article a long time ago about an anecdote where they were looking for POC comedians. Could barely find any. A POC comedian who knew about the call and is working asked his friends if they were interested. Yes! they were! Why didn’t they apply? He asked. They didn’t know about the call! The…

I am loving the sexual tone you’re giving it. Flopped it around, rubbed the buttons, faked an orgasm and said “yeah....that was great...”

...no trust me people hate Foer. Look at any of the other articles about Foer on Gawk or Jez and it’s a supreme hatefest. Plenty of people have hated him too on this article.

Wait did you say that seriously or like sarcastically

I like you.

I read my old diaries and it was weird - the parts that, at the time, I thought were great thoughts or trying hard to be someone else were embarrassing, but the parts I thought were lame when I was younger or when I was “ordinary and dumb” are in retrospect really quite charming and strong and endearing. I guess the…

I can’t remember what class it was, but I remember one of our readings was about how Van Gogh even knew, cruelly, in advance what would happen to him mentally. His brother (if memory serves) basically had the same condition, but was several years further along. Van Gogh could basically see what was going to happen to…

Ignore him - he’s either a troll or someone who will #notallmen you to death. He responded to another thread about the Cosby rapes and no one believing them with “they should have been better reported, then”

I think it’s hard to conceptualize (because so often we’re told things are Right or they are Wrong) but everyone is right. Cho, Lin, Pegg, and Takei can all hold their own opinions about this large and overwhelming creative work that has taken a life of its own throughout multiple generations and they can all be…

As amazing as that book is, it’s not the same one that the Herzogs are funding

First Amendment really only protects you from the govt. Employment laws in this country are pretty bad in terms of protections for employees. If you are at-will employment, you can pretty much be fired anytime for anything.

I’ve had one (and therefore have had lots of trial and error experience), and you can keep them as a pet BUT you would have to change your life around quite a bit. They naturally roam a lot (especially at night), so keeping them in a tiny cage is not ideal. I used to let mine out a lot to run around the bathtub with…

Question: if Macy’s does this shit to you and charges your credit card, can you report it to your credit card company that the charges were fraudulent? In Moftah’s case, it was literally stolen from her and is an unauthorized charge. I wonder if Macy’s would either ignore the investigation (which I think if they don’t…

Oh my god if he does I would TOTALLY watch the elections

How do you decide what to leak? Is it mostly like celebrity “leaking” where they’re actually just finding a venue for publicity via journalism and it’s basically marketing, or is it like the movies where the reporter is like “aw give me something” and you’re like “alright” and it’s actually a big deal and they…

I had one more question (if I have not tried your patience too much already, haha). When journalists say something will be “off the record,” how do you know when or if to trust them? Is that contingent completely on personal relationship with said-journalist?

Thanks - this was very cool and also! I did not even know media outlets could basically have someone conduct a “post-mortem” on them.

Awesome answer. Some other commenter also said that the core wasn't what the verifications were or could have been, but it was the way Erdely presented the story as fact-checked truth.

Damn it, I wrote a response and then Kinja ate it and froze.