I am glad to hear that there was justice in some situations. Yes, now that I have more experience, it is a relief to know that it is the company that is often not a good fit. I imagine a lot of people working at the Ellen show feel like they cannot leave because they’re not good enough, or sunk cost fallacy, etc. For…

Flip over to Jalopnik, a car enthusiast site where half the writers now seem to hate the mere idea of motor vehicles.

Hell, the comments section is the only reason I still come here

I blame it on these youngs. The article is written like Trading Spaces was Ty’s show until its ‘demise’. It wasn’t his show, and he wasn’t even the carpenter for the second half of the original run.

It’s the trend around here. There used to be thoughtful analyses, and now there’s knee jerk complaining and reactions. They get clicks; I blame the herb.

I don’t know how much Pennington himself is to blame. Like most reality programming, it was probably driven almost entirely by producers wanting shit that looked good on camera. People forget but the original Extreme Makeover was not a home edition but a show about plastic surgery. It came from a dark place where no…

“Either way, I don’t put a ton of emphasis on how people I’ve met have described their experience. How people perceive and react to the behavior of coworkers and bosses can vary a lot.”

 One woman’s home was foreclosed on nine years after her makeover when the mortgage ballooned from $30,000 to $113,000.

100%. Have none of you seen the Larry Sanders Show?

Her image as a “nice person” and her knowledge of what happened behind the scenes on her show are, to me, two totally discrete things. I’m not going to touch the former - enough has been said already by better writers/thinkers than me - but I find it completely credible that she wouldn’t have known about her…

Having power doesn’t mean you care enough to know. Sometimes having power means you can insulate yourself from having to know.

In your heart of hearts, are you really that mad at Ellen? And if so, why?

Yep.  It’s easy to be outspoken against it in the abstract. When faced with someone you dislike getting comeuppance for doing something you think is unquestionably wrong, the impulse to be snarky and shitty about them is more difficult to overcome.  But if you have a platform, and you claim to be for criminal justice…

Jez writers are outspoken in their advocacy against the “incarceral state”, yet the glee they show about this woman going to prison tells on them.

This article eventually comes to the correct conclusion, but the getting there is rough. Federal defendants generally have the opportunity to request to be sent to a particular prison, and in my (somewhat limited) experience, as long as the requested prison is the appropriate security level, courts will respect those…

Same experience. At one time, Jezebel articles used to have great points and gave me things to think about. Anymore, it seems like I’m doing a quick scan of the articles, having a couple WTF moments, and going straight to the comments for anything of real substance. Yeah, maybe it’s time to move on.

Is this you getting the vapors because you don’t understand how medium security prison works or do you know that and are just disingenuously feeding a dumb and pointless cycle of outrage?

I think the new writers (and Joan is the worst offender, but it’s a site-wide issue) forget some of us are older and have been reading this site since there was some well-researched longform political journalism amidst the snarky hot takes. Now it’s a sea of tiresome, shallow “SmAsH CaPiTaLiSm” and “EaT tHe RiCh”…

If you didn’t know anything about Rob Reiner, you could have at least taken 30 seconds to Google him. He’s been a highly vocal (and financial) advocate for civil rights for 50 years. He helped start the American Foundation for Equal Rights. He’s repeatedly bankrolled challenges to Right-wing legal attacks on women,…

In general I agree, but Jameela has no qualifications whatsoever to advise women on pregnancy issues. She’s not a doctor, a doula or a women’s health specialist, nor has she ever been heavily pregnant. She doesn’t even seem aware of the actual purpose of pregnancy support wear, which isn’t to make you look “smaller”…