There are situations in which no one in the group can afford to cover the check for everyone. When I was younger, my friends and I could afford to eat out/tip appropriately for ourselves, but no one could afford to cover the cost for the entire party. Sometimes check splitting is a financial necessity.

This. This. This.

I think because Hamas didn't do the trigger kidnapping plus the disproportionate response by Israel.

While I think this post is probably well-intentioned, the idea that this conflict is "too complicated" for people to understand, or "too sensitive" for anyone but a scholar or middle east journalist to comment is really problematic and part of the silencing tactic on this issue in US. The fact is, as Americans, we are…

Madonna should stop the war between the right and left sides of her face. The right seems to be winning the Battle of the Lift.

P.S. DISAGREEING WITH HOW ISRAEL IS HANDLING IT'S "SITUATION" DOES NOT MAKE YOU A JEW HATER.

It isn't quite that simple. Take the examples of a person who murders their spouse for an inheritance versus murders their spouse in a jealous rage. A large part of the difference between how we punish these people has to do with deterrence, not necessarily the horribleness of the actions. It is not better that people…

Well, technically he is correct that under the rules of symbolic logic, the statement "X is worse than Y" (or "Y is worse than X") does not require approval of X or Y. And to be fair, he is an internationally renowned tenured professor at the University of Oxford. But on the other hand, you have access to Daria gifs…

Thank you! It really throws a wrench into the point the author was attempting to make.

Call me an ass or an over simplifier but I think his point is that he's not endorsing /in favor of/encouraging a bad thing/event and everyone missed the point and started talking about how there are several degrees of badness of said thing, which he doesn't endorse at all.

Is there anything wrong with forming a judgment about under what circumstances a sexual assault is worse than another? Isn't that what we expect legislatures to do when they set penalties for different types of sexual assault? Should all types of sexual assault carry the exact same penalty?

The fact that you say "as a man who has not been raped" is so, so comical. You just said in this very article that he was sexually assaulted as a child. This is a post about there being no degrees of sexual assault in which you imply that there are, in fact, degrees of sexual assault when it is convenient for you.…

Or at least for Colbert's replacement. Nothing against Larry Wilmore, but I was pulling for her.

She could take Craig Ferguson's "late late show"!

I DIDNT think of Aisha for The Late Show, and I have shame.

THAT WOULD BE BOSS AS FUCK

I sort of get it. A few years back, I was walking with my boyfriend (he's black, I'm white) and an older black man pulled him aside to "congratulate" him on his accomplishment pointing to me and then said something to the effect of "that right there is power, don't let it go."

I'm glad I wasn't totally alone in that! In some ways it's sad that we equate being a provider and working so much with masculinity - it makes joblessness and homelessness so much more devastating. I can understand why people in that position would act out, especially if they're stuck because of mental health issues.…

Okay, yes ... because, as a woman of color who has been catcalled since I was nine-years-old and who is deeply aware of race, I've thought a lot about this. Because it feels particularly hurtful when it's a Hispanic/Latin person and I want to be like, "Man, this is why white people hate us," and then I have all this…

I consider myself a very committed feminist, but in some ways my reaction was similar to your partner's. Though to me it wasn't so much about race as the fact that some of the guys were clearly unhinged to some degree. Arguing with a clearly disenfranchised person who's apparently suffering from some mental or social…