Why do I feel like that’s deliberate? As in, Pence will become our president and get credit for “integrity” and “rebuilding from the ashes”

I wouldn’t put too much faith in Mensch. She rose to fame by cultivating an image of being a hard-hitter in the phone-hacking parliamentary inquiry (in truth, she lobbed unexciting softball questions at defendants including Rupert Murdoch himself, and failed to follow up on obvious points of concern) and yet went on…

Such a heartening sign when the future attorney-general lies under oath.

I can say from a rather short experience that solitary confinement is torture in every way but name.

I was picked up on an outstanding warrant, having just left a rehab facility for a variety of issues (drug and alcohol abuse, major depressive disorder, etc.), and was taken to my local jail. I was in an already…

“I’m going to give a free commercial here. Go buy it today, everybody.” 

I don’t think that’s necessarily true. Medieval doctors who believed in bloodletting genuinely believed that they were helping their patients, even when they died. Many people who practice exorcism are perfectly sane, just credulous and misguided.

Sadly this is not even close to being anything new. There’s at least two or three cases a year of people dying during exorcisms, including sometimes in the United States. In 2011 a Virginia man beat a two-year-old to death in exorcism. In 1997 a Korean woman was beaten to death in California during an exorcism. And a…

It just speaks to a person who is truly, truly, twisted on the inside. Sometimes, you just can’t separate the art from the artist, and the same person who would fantasize about a “pack of n—” is absolutely the same person who fantasizes about humans getting their organs ripped out of their bodies.

And Winona Ryder spent an entire decade relegated to b list supporting roles...for shop lifting.

The tapes are the thing that really get to me; he wishes actual rape and death on his ex-girlfriend. He’s frightening because the anger is so palpable, it’s almost a physical presence.

And for one episode in the back of a police car on eight double tequilas to sort of dictate all the work, life’s work and beliefs and everything else that I have and maintain for my life is really unfair

One of the things that has long bothered me about Mel Gibson is his obsession with violence.

As a woman in tech, good. Those stories need to come out.

I made a scene once when my classmate’s dad came up behind me and started rubbing my shoulders. This is the second time he had done this to me (the first time I thought it was a different friend giving me a shoulder rub).

Blaming education or a lack of minorities interested in tech minimizes the stories of people who have been driven out of their fields by this toxic environment.

It’s good that you mentioned witches, because they’re specifically based on antisemitic tropes. For example, people who were accused of witchcraft were punished by wearing pointed hats commonly associated with Jews (Judenhut). Blood libel — the belief that Jews kidnapped Christian children to use their blood in…

There have been a number of studies/articles about how Disney movies during the ‘90s and early ‘00 relied heavily on these tropes when creating antagonists within their films. It was considered surprising, given that it was actually something quite common well before then and had been absent in their films for some…

A lot of tropes that we associate with villainy are actually based on traits of marginalized people. In the case of Scar and Jafar, they’re queer-coded. They’re sibilant, emotive, and occasionally effeminate, which is often associated with portrayals of gay men.

A couple of quotation marks would have done wonders for the readability of your OP.

The universe is off its axis when the most effective troller of Trump is the former right-of-center president of Mexico.