I trust Microsoft to respect my privacy just about as much as I trust “a prosecutor.”

Oh God...worst singing ever.

Somehow, I think if the album wasn’t so overwrought and earnest, no one would have jumped on her for misusing/abusing the word.

Essay on Jagged Little Pill:

I found this opener odd:

Er, *some* men don’t have to be good at it. Not every household has the same labor distribution as this doofus’s. In mine, dad was the better baby caregiver, whereas mom was better with the toddler years.

Okay. That’s a reason.

“I’m not going to engage seriously with anyone.”

Tracey Moore wrote:

Sad game, if she’s one of the best.

Thank you so much. Sometimes, it’s like being on an alien planet.

“Artist.” Lol.

A list that includes “Squirrel Girl” and “Maria Hill” but not Wonder Man is either weird or ignorant.

Um, this view of Superman is hardly unprecedented. Neither is the idea of a Batman/Superman dustup. Both are featured in Frank Miller’s original Dark Knight, one of the most important installments in the DC universe and in comics/graphic novels more generally. Hardly “stupid ass.”

If you think this is the “hardest raid yet,” you didn’t play Sunwell, back in the day.

Technology and conditioning completely ruined tennis, something John McEnroe predicted, when graphite racquest came into the sport.

Do you think that in social science, generally, we conclude from “x percent said y occurred” that y occurred in those cases?

A poll in which 20% of respondants said that x happened shows that x happened in 1 in 5 cases?

Given that Burning Man is now overrun with cops and Feds, why would anyone in their right mind go there?

A very important article in the NYT about this. It is clear that we have not thought this through, at all.