guys i am for real concerned that he didn’t know that a whole world lay beyond the US until like 2 months ago

George Zimmerman was neighborhood watch, so I’d vote no on that.

If you have mentally ill relatives, particularly ones who are coherent at times, this is the sort of thing you need to discuss with them. I’m white, but my mother has already promised unless I’m a real threat to someone else’s safety she will never call the police for fear they’ll kill me when I’m not in a coherent…

“I called you to help me but you killed my brother.”

Have you read ‘the Terror’ by Dan Simmons? It’s about the Erebus and Terror. An amazing read. Also well researched. Highly recommend:

Just turned 47. I’m feeling ya bro.

I also think Ledger’s Joker is such a amazing product of its time. You can argue the Joker is first and foremost, an agent of chaos but what makes that really scary is the raw idealism behind it. He’s willing to die on several occasions just so that he can carry forth a message and a worldview that is opposite…

My thoughts as well. It’s like, let me get this straight; in order to prevent a patriarchal system from dictating what women can wear, you’re dictating and enforcing what women can wear, through the patriarchal system of law? There’s absolutely nothing feminist about this. It’s harassment and persecution from the…

Ugh, I have no patience for the the feminists who are pro this ban. It’s as not okay to force a woman out of certain clothes as it is into them. And also, it won’t work. Make it so that I can only go swimming if I’m dressed not to my religious standards and I just won’t go swimming.

Hey now guy, we have like..... maybe 3 GOOD places to eat not named Stake’n Shake in this fine city.

That’s Assange, not Snowden.

FWIW... I liked True Crime.

I loved True Crime, and look forward to the occasional editorial when you can’t hold one back as an io9 special feature. They were especially great articles in and around the fall, as I work in the ‘haunt industry’ and they always helped provide some inspiration or they would help me get into the mind of the evil ones.

I, for one, loved seeing you come on board and your True Crime obsession informing the daily content of io9.

For several months, I tried my own hand at writing on the subject—right here on io9, for the now-defunct sub site True Crime. Some io9 readers loved it.

Classic as always.

Was there ever an oral history done of the Jezebel/Deadspin staffer swap?

I swear to God every once in a while I will look up this Tweet and stare at it on my phone and it makes me feel so, so much better.

I think it was indefensibly bad. YMMV.

The other five episodes were worth it for “Were-Monster”.