And we're still doing this shit - giving "equal representation" in talk-show debates and the like to an "other perspective" that's arguing for teaching creationism in schools or for eschewing vaccinations, as though those are perfectly reasonable alternative viewpoints. Voluntarily giving a podium to horrible people…

Moreover, Conflict Kitchen's (largely conservative) pro-Israel critics are still propagating the frankly insane notion that the restaurant has some responsibility to include the perspective of both sides of the conflict.

Available at the Girls's Costume Warehouse.

I'm a World Trade Center survivor, dude. Our offices were on the 77th floor of Building One. I know exactly what the word means.

I think we benefit so much more as feminists when we say "what can we learn from this?" rather than "who can we yell at about this?" I know that puts me in the unpopular minority. I know that the idea of a "JEZEBEL" writer saying "hey, I'd rather listen to your conversation than drown out your voice with mine" is…

SA has various standards of Homicide. Those in play here are Premeditated Murder (found not guilty), common law murder by reason of dolus eventualis (also not guilty), culpable homicide (not ruled, probably guilty).

Right. And OJ and Casey Anthony probably wouldn't have "gotten away with it" if the prosecutors in their cases hadn't gone for murder-1. The US judicial system is so strange. I'd rather prosecutors go for a lower charge that they're sure will stick than go for the higher (more popular with the masses) charge that…

I could probably look this up, but does anyone know if South Africa has the degrees of murder like the US has? I can see why it would be hard to classify this as 1st degree murder given the lack of evidence regarding premeditation, but does South Africa have a Murder 2? I suppose not, if they're going straight to…

I just about died laughing. Truly you are doing the lord's work. :D

Howdy — I'm Philly Mag's digital editorial director. I didn't edit the piece, but I don't think it ever had "banned" in the body *or* the hed as published; I was involved in a discussion of the nuances of "barred" vs. "bounced" before it went up. The "ban" in the URL is either an artifact of the writer's draft hed or…

Is she really that popular, because I've never heard of herbivore.

I like that this a "non-cultural" movie and it stars a black girl. Meaning: usually, when a PoC stars in main cartoon roles, it's to tell a story related to their culture. Mulan, Princess and the Frog, Aladdin, Prince of Egypt, what have you, were all taking place in each of those respective cultural settings and so…