1) “Moral energy” here means, “This show hits so close to reality that I can’t mentally handle it because there’s so much wrong.” This is a common sentiment with white guys. My brother thought the book was “too much to handle,” and I reminded him it was based on real events. He looked dumbfounded and I said, “Oh I’m…

I podcast for the right reasons: To be creative, hang out with people I like, and to fill a crippling void in my soul that requires constant attention. That’s all it takes, folks!

I also think it’s weird that so many of the comments are “I don’t have kids [and that was the right choice for me]”. Like, that’s cool, and fine, and I know it’s the other side of this question, but I wouldn’t go on an article asking how people feel about having gotten a dog and write “Well I don’t have a dog and I…

i’m gonna be the cynical one here and say that this was a stupid proposal in the first place. there was always going to be a good chance he dropped the ring box, or when he opened it the ring. not even taking into account the possibility of drowning, this was asinine.

Jesus, just bend on one knee and ask.

Speaking as someone who teaches the discipline, you strike me as the sort of person who comes into my 100-level courses declaring themselves “a WRITER” and then drops the second I apply a few lower-level corrections to your atrocious grammar and syntax—without ever bothering to look at the higher-order concerns with…

I dunno, Monday Night Raw was pretty putrid for a while.

You can joke about whatever the hell you want. If you want to make fun of people for their race, their sexual orientation, disability or trauma, then by all means do it. However when the public at large thinks your jokes are not funny that falls directly on you as a shitty comic.

No, but Wolf of Wall Street sure as hell could have.

Usually,

There are like 50 songs that would make a better national anthem than the star spangled banner. It’s a needlessly complex song and we don’t even sing the whole thing, not that we should. And it’s been ruined by pop divas trying to elongate the notes at the cost of their larynxes. Just look at poor Xtina! And surely…

She should know that mistakes are only allowed for White candidates.

This is a direct quote from an email you received from your director, isn’t it?

I try to do this with my kids. When I hear them talk around other kids, it shows. Now I just have to get them to read so they can expand their vocabulary on their own!

“Telling my life with his words / Killing me softly with his song...”

Dude, a trigger warning would be nice.

All I feel in my heart right now is murder.

Be back in a couple years. Reading that put me into a cubicle coma.

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