My brother told me a few years ago that he has a trick he uses to keep from saying offensive things — whenever he wants to say something “politically incorrect,” he thinks, “Would Ad Infinitum get mad at me for this?” and if he decides I would, he doesn’t say it.

I have very clear memory of my brother, shortly after 9/11, telling me about this awesome term he’d just heard — sand n***er! He was honestly baffled when I yelled at him. “It’s not racist! It has nothing to do with black people!”

Someone abandoned two purebred huskies at my local dog park earlier this year. I’m not exactly inclined to take Affleck’s word here, but it does happen.

Nope! (apologies for linking my own comment, but I just typed it all up)

The alleged victim never sought the university’s involvement and did not initially file a Title IX complaint since the alleged rape took place off campus. The police report, however, was given to the university by a Utah County Sheriff and friend of Seidu.

I don’t know. In my experience white people LOVE to brag about being some minute percentage Cherokee (it’s always Cherokee, and somehow the ancestor is almost always a princess) and how exotic and in touch with nature it makes them.

I would add:

When I was home from college one summer, I ran into a girl who relentlessly bullied me through middle and high school, and was shocked when she came running over and gave me a bear hug. I responded with a resounding WTF, and she was flabbergasted that I wasn’t as delighted to see her as she apparently was to see me.

I never thought of Bosch as show made for men, either. I guess it is somewhat light on substantive female characters, but it’s light on substantive characters that aren’t Bosch, period.

TIL that a moron is smarter than an imbecile, and an imbecile is smarter than an idiot. The more you know!

The conservative response to mass shootings never deviates. The gun nuts run out and buy a thousands of whatever weapons were used because anything that can kill that many people that quickly and effectively is super awesome and they desperately need to own 10 of them.

Wait, you mean she wasn’t instantly and universally believed and showered with job offers and money, and Nelly’s life wasn’t ruined forever by the mere accusation? This must be the first time in history that a rape victim wasn’t richly rewarded for coming forward and an alleged rapist escaped unscathed.

No burning involved — the victim was tortured and murdered with a knife and then left to rot. The Louisiana victim was a stranger and, at least according to what Tellis told friends, the motive was purely financial. Tellis knew the victim in this case, and her murder occurred after he spent the day texting her demands…

They had expert testimony in this trial, but apparently the defense attorney convinced the jury to ignore it:

Something this story doesn’t mention: When Tellis was arrested for this crime, he was incarcerated in Louisiana awaiting trial for the torture and brutal murder of another young woman. He bragged to friends that he tortured that victim to death to make her give him her ATM pin, and he used her card to withdraw…

I’ve adopted two dogs since then, but that’s definitely my plan if/when I’m in a position to adopt in the future.

I’m definitely not trying to demonize people who are forced to surrender pets — sometimes it’s an unavoidable, heart-breaking situation for the owner. And just as you say, actually taking them to a shelter is much more responsible than a lot of people manage.

Years ago I contacted a German Shepherd rescue and said that I knew I wasn’t a candidate for a young or healthy dog since I didn’t have a yard, but asked if my situation might work for a senior dog or a dog with limited mobility whose exercise was limited to daily walks. They reacted like I’d said I wanted a dog so I…

Seth Meyers seems to take a perverse pleasure when jokes die. He’ll turn it into a joke on himself —“I fought all day for that joke. Sorry, ___, you were right” or “Believe it or not, that was my favorite joke of the night.” Or he’ll say something like “What, too high-brow for you?” about jokes that are incredibly…

Women who haven’t experienced some form of sexual harassment are the exception, not the rule. That’s literally the point of the exercise — to show how widespread it is. And while it’s not anywhere near as common, many men have experienced sexual harassment as well.