They shelled out a billion dollars last year to buy tumblr. Yahoo is trying desperately to be cool.

But can she see why kids love the taste of cinnamon toast crunch?

"There's something different about Jenny McCarthy…"
"New glasses?"
"No, I think she's endangering the lives of thousands of children."
"Probably misses her old glasses."

I think at this point she's mostly famous as "that one antivaccine nutjob", and talk radio has long been a welcoming place for loud idiots.

Unless you're asking people to give every last cent of their disposable income to foodbanknyc, the two are not mutually exclusive. You know absolutely nothing about the people donating to Potato Salad other than they apparently have a different sense of humor than you; it's kind of unfair to assume they're all…

Agreed. It's nice that he apparently plans to spend some of it on charity, but the people demanding that he do so are ridiculous. Beyond fulfilling the promises of the campaign, it's his money and he can do with it as he pleases.

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I read the comments in order, so let's just agree to disagree on that.

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Is this what passes for homophobia these days?

Something might happen here today… and if it does, so what?

Sounds kinda stupid.

How can math be real when our axiom schemas aren't real?

I think Godzillas are just like that. I think they're just good guys.

Exactly. His whole thing is this egregious awfulness that hides behind "egregious awfulness as art". And enough people have inexplicably* bought into this that you can't call out his bullshit without someone claiming that your vitriol itself somehow constitutes validation of his career.

I feel like he does, although I'm not prepared to back that feeling up with anything concrete. I definitely get the fatigue. (Although as a sidenote: I hate the idea that writing by/about middle class white men can be of interest/value exclusively to middle class white men. I feel I've benefited from reading Tolstoy…

I will show you fear in a handful of guac.

I haven't read Eating Animals, but in his essay Against Meat he's pretty open about his on-again, off-again relationship with vegetarianism. e.g.:

I've never really understood why Franzen gets so much shit for focusing on middle-class white midwesterners. I understand why people object to him being called the next Great American Novelist (or to the basic concept of a Great American Novel[ist]) but as far as I know he's never claimed that title for himself.…

My local Qdoba had a sign outside today saying that guac is now included in all entrees. I'm used to having to pay extra for guac everywhere I go so I made a special note of this. I don't really like Qdoba but I will probably go there sometime this week to take advantage of the 'free' guac. I don't know if this is…