See top thread for photo evidence he got the 1st, and then stop crying.

Then what style did he steal, exactly? You may have some textbooks, but I can pull out some 15th 16th and 17th century folk music that sounds like Bob Dylan with a Scottish/Irish accent. Maybe you’re talking about Dylan’s electric period? I doubt that’s what won him his Nobel.

Not like any of this matters much,…

and I’ll add that he stole his ‘original’ folk musical style from much lesser known black American artists

I’m not really understanding all the points you’re trying to make, but I just want to say that I appreciate it when someone can simply say “I don’t know what happened,” in a situation like this. People are bad at saying “I don’t know,” particularly around here, and particularly when emotions are involved.

She just brought up the blatant signalling going on in this article and the PAC that is the subject of this article. Not too many people talk about signalling around here, and it deserves much more discussion.

Yup it happens. It fits in nicely with my theory that most of politics is actually just signalling. Also, see conservative who for some reason support Donald Trump. How many people actually think according to a set of principles? Not many, and this is especially true of those who claim to have a strong set of…

Yup. Not too many kinja commenters show her (his? I actually don’t know) commitment to reasonable discourse. When people get mad at her, or when Kara Brown bans her, it isn’t because she is uncivil, it’s because she has a strong command of feminist ethics, and she is willing to test and criticize arguments that may…

You are easily my favorite commenter in the kinjaverse.

Yeah. If someone’s believes in feminist ethics, but only applies those ethics to women they like, then they don’t actually believe in feminist ethics. This is sort of like supporting free speech, so long as you agree with it.

...but this piece is just a masturbatory, excessively long pseudo-think piece...

I’m not really buying this theory.

But people are actually falling for it.

“Thanks Obama!”

Republicans aren’t just racist and fiscally conservative. They are mutant super villains with the ability to control the minds of their opponents.

Since when did the entire notion of free speech become solely about the 1st amendment? Perhaps a wildly polular XKCD had something to do with it?

Beyonce fans can be pretty neatly divided into two groups.

Thanks.

Thanks. I did make it out over at gawker, and I think it was Hamno of all people.

I take issue with much of the Social Justice movement, so my comment history will keep me in the greys here at Jez, I’m afraid. I’m often accused of “mansplaining.” Probably because I’m a man and I have the nasty habit of explaining…

Yeah, I noticed the same thing. I also noticed that many of those who did decide to comment are very uninformed about the details of this case, and especially those details that cast doubt on Jackie.

This seems like a natural result of presumed innocence, especially in cases like these. The defense has no other (safe) way to make a case for reasonable doubt, and naturally, the press is going to spend more time talking about the most crucial moments of the trial. In this case and most like it, that would be the…