Please let Aaron Sorkin be next. He’s such an asshole who writes asshole male characters based on himself and no one else. This means he won the hearts of liberal bros everywhere so Sorkin can do no wrong. (Also he sucks as a writer anyway, but that’s a separate issue.)

Hell, it’s not even that.

it’s working great for Fox Sports!

She should start by fighting to desegregate schools, oh wait

She’s kidding right? So she’s gonna play into the bullshit that the violence was caused by advocates of equality and the defenders of our humanity. Fuck that. Beware of those who call themselves ally’s.

how does she feel about school integration?

She and her husband sure do love to tell people how they can and cannot protest against racism.

Will this be as successful as her campaign to prevent her kids school from more integration?

I didn’t realise how unfamiliar English people are with Irish names until I moved here. I mean, I wouldn’t expect people to be able to parse Caoimhe (Keeva) but I thought Niamh was common enough. Turns out people see it written down and think it’s Vietnamese...

Really this isn’t a big deal. My first name is Declan, which almost no one in the US could pronounce when I was growing up (heard it has gotten fairly popular now though). It was a pain in the ass when I was a kid, but kids are always going to make fun of each other for something. Now I enjoy having a unique name and…

This isn’t Gawker. Gawker got shut down. It was kind of a big thing.

Oh, good. Boring Navel-Gazing Personal Essay Saturday is back and it’s a weekday feature.

So fully realizing this is what everybody over the age of 23 has said every year for the last century or whatever: Pop music really sucks right now, doesn’t it?

The fact that labor unions are taking a beating should be no surprise to anyone paying real attention to politics for the last 35 years.

Geohell

Politicon is a series of rap battles for liberal arts majors.

It’s for the kind of people who hear Jeff Zucker’s pitch to have CNN cover politics like a sporting event and don’t immediately start retching in disgust.

“We may be DOWN with the CLOWN, but let us also be DOWN to VOTE!”

journalists (Chris Cilizza

That is one long-winded wikipedia article.