I don't think cheerfully, stubbornly celebrating your disinterest in empathy constitutes an especially genuine gaze at your own feel of clay. Your 'dang! human after all!' mea culpa sounds rather more like a cheap excuse to dismiss half the nation as subhuman and be a colossal dick to people on the internet that…

However, your avatar freaks me out. The Corgan transphobia thing was a monster bummer; I flash back to it every time I see your comments (all of which have been thoughtful and cool).

Thanks for this thorough breakdown. I really appreciate it. I confess I haven't chased all the details down. Consider my ass schooled.

Everything you say is true—for the careful and rational. I go to church with a great many people that are neither. I increasingly suspect that swift binary definitions like 'she is too a feminist' may have at least as much long-term benefit in blunting the cryptofundamentalist zeal of such folk as meaningful…

Me too. I don't presume to be able to declare him 'innocent' or 'guilty,' but from everything I've read, what constitutes 'assault' isn't something he qualifies for. A court agreed, and that's not infallible but it should matter. That she later committed suicide is beyond sad, but it shouldn't constitute automatic…

You are very quick to dismiss, viciously attack, and/or block people that disagree with you on even minor points, I've noticed. But I think you are genuine and large-hearted. So I would offer this: that foregoing the wish of a death-boon to your enemies, rather than the false token of human regard it *seems* like it…

Every time the Chamberlain whines 'plEASE? PLEASE MAKE PEACE!?' I lose a month of life. He often does it in my head. It's a household quote for my kids. Everything you'd ever want from dark fantasy.

Yeah. Do you have anything to say besides tokens of pearlescent outrage?
How much have you read into his thing? It's sticky and strange. I think reading the transcript of the conversation he had with the lady involved the day after removes the whole event from the realm of the easily judged. That's not to say he's…

I tend to find rancid internet hatred quite repellent.

I think Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Nate Parker would like to chat with you, for starters. But the greater swath of damage lies in smaller communities with less insulated people that mega-celebrities like, say, Affleck, and often has an element of underage sex—but not always. The stigma of such accusations can be quite…

I also want to know what to feel about anonymous accusations like this. I get the victim fearing retaliation, public shaming, and other horrible attendant experiences. I also feel that the consequences for the accused are too severe to expect them to suffer those consequences flung from the dark. We grant the right of…

I absolutely wish I did not know this one hysterical person who we all speculated would either absolutely be willing to falsify sexual assault charges or or else could laughably misinterpret pretty typical hookup innuendo and a bit of rowdy sex—only for said person to later do BOTH, on two separate occasions. I want…

I don't think I can upvote this enough.

An anal popper of dried whitefish cured with lye. Come on. Don't serve me softballs.

Yes?

Totally on the other side. Labyrinth is amusing, plus Bowie. But as a kid I found its sinister tones too cute to be that troubling, and thus not that fun. Whereas Dark Crystal, man—genocide, popping out eyeballs, the simpering cruelty of a Louis XVI-type court, slavery, and drinking souls to preserve youth, to say…

Coke is nothing but hope. Electric possibility shot straight up your urethra. In the 70s they were on *opiates*, especially heroin, and there's your lack of hope.

I was a ground-zero teen for the grunge rise. Loved all the big bands *except* Soundgarden, whom I always hated. I've made fun of this man as a pretender for decades. And now I see he was still a formational part of my music youth. RIP, brother. Weird to have a world without you.

Man, you guys see those Lawrence of Arabia stills? Ripping off TFA something fierce. O'Toole is too good to put up with that shit. And David Lean should be fucking ashamed of himself.

The only dish I tolerate whining to me about which noodle it needs to be correct is ramen.