The change was largely made in the early 90s when computers started to be used more than typewriters. When it comes to standard practices, I think ~25 years counts as a long time, though obviously you’re free to disagree.

Believe it or not, not everything is done in Word.

The kind of heathen who copy edits for a living. As someone else said, if you use double spaces in a piece that’s going to be professionally edited or typeset, someone like me has to remove them all (whatever we think of them personally, the major style guides made a hard and fast decision on the issue a long time…

It’s your choice, really, but it helps, most major style guides call for one space. It’s also easier to ensure consistency, because you can do a search and replace for double spaces, but if you tried that for single spaces you’d end up with multiple spaces between each word.

I think a lot of people only use checks for rent. I was able to set up an electronic transfer with my current landlord, which is infinitely preferable, but every other landlord I’ve had (last one was in 2016) required paper checks.

My favorite bit about everyone claiming that Michelle Wolf insulted SHS’ appearance by comparing her to Aunt Lydia: They’re starting from the belief that “Ann Dowd is ugly” is a fact, and not an opinion every bit as insulting as the one they’re clutching their pearls about.

An excerpt from her interview with Terri Gross (available in full tomorrow, but NPR released part of it):

Huh, I thought he was one of yours — I don’t ever remember seeing him on Kinja before the AV Club migration.

These laws, everywhere, were written by and for men. Women have to have broken bones, black eyes, and be curled up in a corner tearing their hair out for men to believe they were raped.

Jezebel just ran an article about a U.S. man who confessed to kidnapping, restraining, and vaginally and anally raped a 13-year-old girl and was sentenced to probation. The first comment on the article is a prolonged explanation from someone who claims to work in the legal system about how no one should have any…

And yet the WHCA didn’t need feel the need to apologize for any of them. Which was my point.

I don’t remember the WHCA apologizing for Colbert’s speech, and I couldn’t find any mention of it on the Wikipedia page. Did I miss something?

Yes, because Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, Larry Wilmore and Hasan Minaj all gave such softball, unifying performances.

IIRC, he claimed that he needed to kill his roommates so he would have a safe place to torture and murder the women he was planning to kidnap.

Hey, he had to find something to be offended by, and he’s apparently smart enough to realize it isn’t a good look to be outraged that a serial rapist only got away with the vast majority of his crimes instead all of them. He should be thanking Diana for giving him a reason to clutch his pearls.

My god. Your poor son was exposed to someone celebrating the conviction of serial rapist using indelicate language on the internet? The HORROR! I hope you can afford the decades of therapy he’ll undoubtedly need to recover from the trauma.

Because I never miss a chance to quote John Darnielle:

Yeah, I’ve never really understood why people conflate vegetarianism and veganism with healthy eating. Of course vegetarian and vegan diets can be healthy, but they can be grossly unhealthy pretty easily, too.

Judging by the comments on WaPo, they’ll scream about due process and kangaroo courts. Apparently the legal system is only legitimate when it lets rapists go free.

This is a hard one for Trump. Championing a serial rapist would play very well with his base, but championing a black man would play very poorly. I think he’ll just ignore it altogether.