there have been plenty of other All Stars who were having worse years than him.

Bench player?

Did you notice how I started that sentence?

Oscars so white and black:

“the Master of None bit in which Aziz Ansari’s Dev Patel complained that “people don’t get that fired up about racist Asian or Indian stuff ... you only risk starting a brouhaha if you say something bad about black or gay people”

Exactly. Suppose someone raped Nassar or Jared Fogle after their crimes but before their arrests. Is that just cool now?

Sometimes in movies, I hear the judge say, “I instruct you to reach a guilty verdict.” Is that actually allowed? Does that really happen? Or is it a Hollywood fiction? Or am I just not accurately remembering this? It seems to me that if a judge can instruct a jury on what verdict to come to, what is the purpose of…

I think some people commented recently on Jezebel that NDAs can be broken, and you suffer only a 10% loss of whatever the settlement was. Sorry I can’t be more definitive. People have been speculating for decades that the Kennedy brothers had Marilyn Monroe killed because she was threatening to go public about having…

I wonder if there is a category for “Best non-sexual role,” for like the hotel manager in a porn movie or whatever. I really would be down for a non-porn role in a porno movie.

Are prison rape jokes really included in children’s tv shows and movies?

I wonder if high profile child molesters like Fogle, Nassar, and Geoghan receive extra protection from the prison? If Nassar is murdered in his first week in prison, the public might very well applaud. But, doesn’t that look rather unfavorable upon the prison? If you’re the warden wouldn’t you want to avoid such news?

In all seriousness, why do you think he will be killed almost immediately? Jared Fogle is still alive. Fogle was attacked in prison, but he also has a sort of gang of followers in prison. It is also entirely possible that Nassar will not be in general population because of the risk of his crimes and his high profile.

Thanks for this. Whenever people say, “This person deserves to be raped in prison,” I always cringe. Does that mean that a serial prison rapist deserves to be commended for his commitment to justice? Should this be mentioned at his parole hearing as a sign of his strong sense of right and wrong? Clearly not, but most…

I wonder who are the primary consumers of interracial porn? I speculate that it is mainly white men who enjoy watching minority women worship white men. Also, white men who kind of get off of being “cuckolded” by black men. And frankly, I think a sizable proportion of “interracial porn consumers” are just random men…

I think that calling a white person a “race traitor” is neither like calling that person an “Uncle Tom” or a “sell-out.”

Yeah, I don’t have any evidence. Neither do you. Neither does anyone commenting here. Which is why I don’t think we should be praising the kid and condemning the teacher which is what many people are doing here. Nobody here knows exactly what happened, except that the journal entry was needlessly confrontational. You…

I doubt anyone would encourage, “chastising him over one tiny word choice or excoriating him for the tone of his journal entry.” But I think that most people, including myself, would privately speak with King, acknowledge his fair points, while guiding him toward making his arguments in a more respectful manner.

Hi, yeah thanks. I loved teaching history, but I switched to math because 1) the humanities classes are incredibly labor-intensive, 2) there is much more room for controversy and “hot water” in history, and 3) when you teach history, even in elementary school, every Tom, Dick, and Harry feels compelled to grill you…

I am not sure if I responded to you or not. You say that the point of school, particularly English class is to learn how to express yourself. Definitely. This student was expressing his opinions. He was factually correct, but he went about it in a disrespectful manner. Also, I find it very hard to believe that an…

Yes, thanks. It is just so hard to believe that an American adult would say that Columbus was the first European in the Americas without acknowledging that indigenous people were here at the time of his arrival. I am skeptical that this child is presenting a 100% accurate account of his teacher’s lesson. And I am…