Why assume Samer’s positions would support a logical, well-thought-out email? I read the op-ed Samer linked to in calling Stephens is a climate-change denier. He’s not: the op-ed critiques the hyperbolic claims that writers and activists sometimes make when describing (and sometimes simplifying or exaggerating)…

It’s stunning, the thoroughness with which Samer plays himself here. If a 20something criminal mastermind spent ten years in a glass-walled cell, using a needle to scribble notes in blood on scraps of smuggled toilet paper, he still couldn’t devise a better Doomsday Machine for coming off like an arrogant, callow,…

a) that’s a decent question though it doesn’t deal at all with my comment. b) so you’re pretty read up on the voting records of the Blue Dog Democrats?

work it gurl.

Got it. Agree. I’m not sure this clock even has that side anymore. Apparently, Jia Tolentino used to purposely* write her long investigative/argumentative pieces without landing on a stance at the end. Just tried to explore and flesh out the ideas behind various possible views of an issue. Whereas all these kids start…

I’m anti- this amendment, generally pro-AOC, and disagree w/ conservative Dems on a ton of issues. But how is this not the single Trumpiest thing in this entire article:

Very much yes.

That history, combined with the way people now behave as if pink-♀/blue-♂ is one of Newton’s Laws. But I’m confused about @zombiepanda’s original post. If the italics mean what I think they do, and they took a corrective tone here -

Finally, democracy. Maybe you should cross-post the recipe on Splinter.

More verbose-ly: lemon-poppyseed is one of those areas of potential transcendence that’s been poisoned by the ubiquity of mediocre versions in popular culture. When we go through life getting hit in the face with flabby, sticky-topped lem-pop muffins at every coffee counter, or having individually plastic-wrapped…

Technically speaking, everybody’s a hypocrite. But also: you’re right and this is the answer. And, speaking as a hypocrite, Republican-politician hypocrisy is so fucking pure. It gives me that [trapped-wolf:ready-to-gnaw-off-my-own-foot] feeling.

Quality lemon-poppyseed recipes would address a critically overlooked and under-served need in this community.

^ quality.

Most smart people I know are stupid in some dimension, and vice versa. In fact I think it’s safe to say you’re 100% wrong - there’s no such thing as a person who’s consistently smart/stupid in every area, on every point. So your comment is pretty stupid. Which doesn’t necessarily mean you’re smart.

I think what bothers me about guys like you isn’t your views, which I disagree with. You’re entitled to your views. It’s your false belief that you’re a rationalist or a realist that’s irritating, and sort of pathetic. You use evolutionary arguments but you’re ignorant about evolutionary theory. You call out others…

all the stars.

Exactly what DrCos said, above. You’ve got every right to tell a server you’d prefer not to be called by those endearments. If you do so, and they respond by refusing to stop, and by mocking you with their fellow servers (“Hey hun, are YOU offended that I called you hun?”) - they’d be assholes, right?

Right! Your name is “Illogical douchebag” - but that’s so formal! I think you should just relax and let people call you “sweetie,” baby.

It’s a minor point, but it’s unnerving that in 2019 a major newspaper for grownup adults in this country has to go all the way past the antiseptic, technical options - “genitals” “vulva” etc. - to the totally infantilizing “private area,” to refer to parts of a female body. Are we really that unable to even admit…

God yes. Sorry: tone of voice is everything sometimes, and of course it’s missing here.