The way he constantly uses the term “hit job” totally doesn’t make me think of his ties to the mob. Every time. He really does have the PR instincts of a honey badger.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m pretty white. It’s just among white people full-head-of-hair babies are the exception rather than the rule, to the extent that lots of folks who live in not very ethnically diverse places could go their entire lives without seeing a small baby with more than a bit of down.

So lazy people, and people who are unable to work due to physical or mental incapacity should be denied water, which will kill them? Because that is the logical endpoint of what my former friend was arguing. I mean, I agree with “from each according to their ability,” but it’s when we disregard the “too each according…

I absolutely agree with the necessity of architectural preservation, but don’t really understand what relevance the ethnicity of people building large houses plays in your argument.

A lot of families, particularly white families with no other ethnic backgrounds, only have babies with pretty much no hair. A lot of them don’t really get any appreciable amount of hair until they are legit toddlers. While white, I am definitely not from a white family that has pursued any sort of ethnic homogeneity.…

The other way to interpret these weird leading-question questionnaires the transition team have been circulating is that this is a group of people who genuinely do not understand how the government, and frankly the world in general, works. So another reading is that these are sad fact-finding missions by people who…

It’s interesting to see people who seem so completely incoherent in their values. If she’s doing good things for others, I can absolutely see not wanting to cut her out of your life (my old friend just seems pathologically self-centered, and doesn’t do anything to help anyone else out). On the other hand, it’s…

I don’t live in the US, so I guess I don’t understand the cultural context..... but to me, anyone who voted for Trump thinks that racism and sexual assault are acceptable behavior. I therefore have a difficult time understanding how the good could outweigh the bad having people like that in your life. I mean, clearly…

If money is going to be misdirected and corruptly stolen, it will be stolen by ‘MURICANS god dammit! Specifically ‘muricans whose names start with T and end with rump.

I worked at an open-concept office and the management had very obviously assigned a couple of senior employees to have pretend life-threatening allergies to smelly foods to keep the office from being intolerable. One person was assigned fish, one was assigned microwave popcorn, and on the rare occasion that someone…

Aha - could be like bike manufacturers who buy rival companies and then essentially gut them and get rid of the competition.

The only reason I started shopping at American Apparel was because of their manufacturing practices. I eventually stopped when the skeeviness became too much too handle (and also their stock started leaning away from basic, high quality cotton goods and focused more heavily on sparkly leotards and satin hot pants)

It’s really a shame that the guy doing it had to be a sexual predator obsessed with being one of the cool kids. Because nothing that took the company down had anything to do with its manufacturing and structure, aside from the fact that AA stores apparently had terrible inventory control because Charney thought…

If they’re shuttering all of the stores, closing the factory and moving production offshore - what exactly are they buying for $88 million dollars? A tainted brand name?

Is it even a possibility that someone who abuses a child to this degree would EVER be allowed custody of any child? I can’t imagine anyone would be arguing that this woman should be allowed to have any children in her care, even if she technically only tortured one of them. Even if she doted on the children, their…

My assumption is that the dad who lived in the house is a different person, and the dad who discovered the child was not in his life, either by choice (deadbeat) or because the mother denied visitation, which a person is likely to do if the kid is being starved to death in a bathroom.

My assumption that there is more than one dad in the picture, because you’re right that the story makes no sense otherwise. The only way it makes sense is that the father who “found” the son is not the custodial parent. Any adult living in the house was complicit, but it’s entirely possible the child’s father was not…

Yes, thank you. I was scanning the comments and thinking maybe I was the only person who almost missed the obviously very important and valid point of the PSA because I spent the entire thing distracted trying to figure out what THE FUCK is going on with that lady’s face?!

People can explain neo-conservative and libertarian ideology to me until they are blue in the face, but I’ll never understand why so many people in the US are so obsessed with trying to withhold medical care from people. It’s just... I can’t understand that being one of your main life goals. What is it about the US,…

That was my impression of it, too. I mean, I get lifestyle marketing and whatever else, and I get that artists now have to do this nonsense to make money, but the whole thing smacks of taking wicking clothes WAAAAYY too seriously. Like, what the fuck do some spandex pants and sports bras have to do with your inner…