That's your interpretation, yes. It wasn't mine, and I venture to say it wasn't the other person's either. That's not to say mine is more valid than yours, but based on the upvotes both the original comment and the response got, it seems that if the joke was about something else, it got lost in the delivery.

Snort. The only person I know who drives a Subaru isn't a lesbian, but she is a single mom with two kids. I must remember to tell her about this.

I know Murphy didn't write PvOJ - that's a big part of why it was great. But the people who did write it aren't coming back for future seasons. Last I heard, Murphy was taking over writing duties as well, and that gives me pause in a big way since I don't trust him to handle those issues sensitively at all. (And as…

True, but Donatella was a lot better looking in the 90s. The fuckery she's pulled on her face has pretty much all happened since then. This was her back in the day:
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Considering who is writing it, maybe a little bit. Murphy should stick to tawdriness, it's his forte. I'm not sure he has it in him to handle something as big and complex as Katrina. Besides, Spike Lee already did the definitive film on the hurricane, IMO.

No, I don't think the poster was being serious, I think he or she was JOKING about another set of dead kids. And the person you jumped all over was perhaps over-emphatically saying "Now's not the time." So: there's your example of someone making jokes about dying kids, and for whatever reason, you're fine with that…

You cease being a reporter, not a journalist. You might argue that that's semantics, but I think it's an important distinction to make. i also went to j-school and no one would say that columnists, for example, are not journalists, just that they aren't reporters.

Supposedly Ivanka and Jared were heard to worry that a Middle East peace deal probably wouldn't be concluded on this trip, although I can't find the report now so maybe it's been retracted. I hate being one of those "Well the fact that it's believable says a lot!" people, but well… the fact that that's believable says…

I mentioned the Sleeping Giants campaign upthread, and the Canadian offshoot is going after the advertisers on Ezra Levant's The Rebel, which is the Sun News successor. I don't know who is financing the site beyond its readers and penny ante programmatic ads, but I'm sure whoever it is doesn't have Mercer money so…

He's been doing that for at least a year though - was that all or was he just downvoted enough this time around, I wonder?

Saw this on Twitter a few weeks back: someone posting that a couple in the Salt Lake City airport were having the following conversation:

I would love if Sleeping Giants and Grab Your Wallet would go after Hannity's advertisers next, but I don't know if 'spreading hurtful conspiracy theories' ranks with sexual assault in terms of their goals. Plus, I'm not sure Hannity gets the same big name advertisers that O'Reilly did.

Yes, unfortunately even CBC Newsnet does this, minus the Outrage Brigade. My parents watch it constantly and by hour 3 it's like "We have HEARD this already, can we please turn it off?" Luckily by 5 pm it's then time for a different newscast or Power & Politics or something, so there's some relief. (It doesn't help…

Didn't Lack run Bloomberg for a while? And Sony music before that? Is he actually a newsman or just a numbers guy?*

You routinely tear people new ones in the WOT articles for comments that are much milder than "Columbine was great for me." I'm not saying you're wrong to do so there, but it seems really weird that kids dying is on the "okay for jokes" side of the line for you.

I have really wanted him and Harry Shum Jr to do an action film together. Whether it's in the vein of like, The Italian Job, or something more tongue-in-cheek, like Spy, is up to Hollywood. But if DuVernay casts Cho in this I will consider that wish fulfilled.

It appears to be a case of "two people having similar ideas around the same time," but yes, it was going around Tumblr back when the photo first came out.

Agreed, and I feel the same way about John Cho. In fact, I would like Cho to play the cop chasing these two. Obviously in the end he sees their cause as righteous and lets them go, or he falls in love with one of them and joins up for the sequel.

Oh Christ, really? Those weren't there when I read it yesterday. Sigh.

Yeah, apparently adults have been taking a bunch of kids who were there without parents to nearby hotels.