Yeah, I stopped watching it regularly after the vaccine episode. I do like Larry Wilmore and his delivery, so I'm at the point where I'll watch it if it happens to be on TV, or if the panel topic is particularly interesting, but if one of the panelists is sucking up too much air/saying abysmally stupid things, I…

TNR got publicly raked over the coals because people were eulogizing it in the wake of its new publisher wanting to completely retool it, and other people went, "no, this thing has always had a wide streak of terrible, why are you sad?" Slate will never get the calling-out it deserves, because it has few defenders to…

I have a similar situation developing with an ex-coworker — we know she has tried to ruin our reputations privately, and it's only legal threats that keep her from doing so publicly. It's very, very stressful and upsetting: while we know she's making it up, some people will believe her if it goes public, because we've…

But Mr. @Meth Lab Shenanigans!

I was really hoping for "The Walking Deader."

In addition to what Wafflicious says about Fry's growth through the series, I would argue that Leela grows a lot, too — at this point in the show she likes handsome, successful, selfish jerks, and it takes her a while to learn that appearances and material success aren't everything.

The most disgusting option, to Fry, is to take the shortcut: to have himself bettered, rather than make himself better. I think that is a pretty awesome lesson from this episode!

And that's why you always pee after sex!

Yes, you're right that people are projecting their issues onto Phil. You're just wrong about who's doing it.

Those things have nothing to do with each other.

To be fair, given the toxicity and vitriol directed at some female writers in these comment sections — many of which were scrubbed as soon as they could be — it may be that she's not engaging in the comments simply as her own policy, and her columns were written without looking in the comments. There's a bunch of…

I love you. A lot. Can we start a UKS 'zine about people missing the point? I want to start hitting people who think that it's too sad to see a white man verbally accost a younger white woman.

But you're supposed to be enraged by that — and then you're supposed to feel good at the end! Kimmy gets blamed, and then she solves the problem because of the same abilities she's always had that people blamed her for it!

Not only are the articles you linked great, because of them I just found out that Azie Dungey of "Ask a Slave" is in the writers' room, which is one of the greatest racist-skewering series I've ever seen.

I really liked this article about watching UKS by a Native American female activist: http://www.dailydot.com/opi…

You're right! I'm sorry, I genuinely thought it came out in September 2001.

Didn't Scarlet's Walk come out *on* 9/11, so it couldn't have been influenced *by* 9/11?

I haven't listened to a new Tori song since The Beekeeper came out (2005?), and this sounds exactly like what I'd expect from a Tori song.

Wow. That was judgmental. Are you sure you're not an INTJ?

I'll admit, that I/my org regularly get attacked by Religious Right assholes is the thing my parents like most about me.