Well, here’s the thing about modern sport rifles, or as they are commonly (and somewhat erroneously) called, assault rifles: Arms companies are pushing to make them the civilian standard as well as the military. Because if they do that, then manufacturing costs go down and the higher overheads on those weapons help…

Kudos to the nurses who stepped up to care for a stranger to keep everything calm.

Oh hell, that’s AWFUL. I’m so sorry you experienced that.

But, but, but....famous....school looks fancy pantsy....My former school snapped up a hotshot has-been, and she (yup, it is a woman in this case) was so hostile, vulgar and without boundaries that it gave me a stomach ache everytime that I had to deal with her. It was not good.

Philosophy PhD candidate here — It’s hard to overstate the extent of the climate problem in philosophy. I’m delighted that Pogge is finally being more publicly shamed, because we’ve all known about him for quite some time. It goes way beyond him though. Every time I meet a new woman grad student, the conversation at…

YOU ARE ETHICING WRONG, ASSHOLE.

why use ‘blind eye’ when ‘accessory’ has such a nice ‘lock you in jail for a while’ ring to it?