Just to clear this up: you're seriously suggesting that rape jokes actually increase the likelihood that a normal person will suddenly decide to become a violent rapist?  Really?!

What if he likes your reply?

What if he likes your reply?

I've got 4 likes already and the day is not yet over!  En garde!

I've got 4 likes already and the day is not yet over!  En garde!

A translation of my "blather":

I don't buy the argument that cancer and dead baby jokes are any less "contentious" than rape jokes.  I also don't buy the argument that some rape jokes "work" and others do not (that's completely arbitrary, and you know it).  And lastly, I don't buy the argument that this op-ed piece is the "only" intelligent…

I don't buy the argument that cancer and dead baby jokes are any less "contentious" than rape jokes.  I also don't buy the argument that some rape jokes "work" and others do not (that's completely arbitrary, and you know it).  And lastly, I don't buy the argument that this op-ed piece is the "only" intelligent…

@avclub-12a6b31534819f646bd9bf5e8a99756d:disqus Even if half the audience at the Tosh show thought that the joke was crossing some sort of moral line, it doesn't give them the right to interrupt the performance and annoy the other half of the audience. Having said that, I find it telling that the only two people who…

@avclub-694385500bdfc505ba0a4a8e3d81af19:disqus So if something offensive is in "the realm of possibility", a joke should never be made?  Ever?  So for example, a comedian shouldn't joke about hurricanes, floods, diseases, the comedy club collapsing and killing the entire audience, etc.  Or are there specific topics…

Definitely worth getting into — gold barf be damned.

Definitely worth getting into — gold barf be damned.

Ummm… a heterosexual male…?!

Ummm… a heterosexual male…?!

I actually found the review tremendously more entertaining than the actual album.  In fact, I would definitely go back and re-read this review over trying to listen to that tedious, monotonous, energy-sucking behemoth of an album again.

I actually found the review tremendously more entertaining than the actual album.  In fact, I would definitely go back and re-read this review over trying to listen to that tedious, monotonous, energy-sucking behemoth of an album again.

@ The Fully Operational Tom Bomb

@ The Fully Operational Tom Bomb

Technically, the Lord of the Rings is one book — it was only divided into 3 for economic reasonings, not literary.

Technically, the Lord of the Rings is one book — it was only divided into 3 for economic reasonings, not literary.