The editing in the E! piece also makes it less clear that the first sentence quoted was meant to have anything to do with the last ones.

It's certainly not clear at all to me that wearing or not wearing dresses in the early 21st century has the same meaning as wearing or not wearing dresses in the early 20th century. I can't speak to what the trans community looked like then, but the Western world as a whole surely had a much neater binary in which men…

Maybe I am an antisocial jerk, but I actually love self-checkout stands. I love automated telephone response systems; maybe I don't need to wait 10 minutes to talk to a person, I just want to know when your store is open or how to get there.

Falling down once, consequence free, does not seem like "a fail of epic proportions."

The governor said that he would consider legal action to enforce the quarantine against her, which means that it would get tested in court, which means we would find out whether the quarantine meets some kind of basic constitutional standard. So, by defying the quarantine, she's actually making sure it gets tested.

Cool, so when school districts in the 80's started telling HIV positive kids that they couldn't come to school at all, those kids should've just stayed home quietly because that's what the people in charge said? Even though that was not the protocol recommended by doctors who knew what they were talking about?

No, birth control is there for people who don't want to have kids right now. It is not there so you can exclude people from happy hour.

"Babies are stupid and they suck" — good, for a minute there, I thought you might not have a good reason for this sweeping opinion.

When he was on the Colbert Report (I cringed a little at that guest selection as well as the fawning way Stephen treated him), Cosby was completely incoherent. Colbert played it as a bit, but Cosby seemed legit confused (in a dementia way) throughout the interview. Guy is 77 years old.

The doctor in NYC did properly self assess. He sought care as soon as he showed symptoms. There is no reason to think that asymptomatic Ebola patients can spread the disease. In every case of documented Ebola spread in the US, the people contracting the illness were medical professionals treating someone with acute…

YEAH, if Native Americans wanted to have a voice in how other people describe them, they should have remained in the demographic majority in this country!

I don't know what people are saying elsewhere. I certainly wouldn't frame it like that. But I would say that some very good lessons for children to be taught are: 1) I have control over my body; 2) I get to say no to unwanted touches; 3) I don't owe anybody my body. If you can teach your kids from a young age how to…

It is never too late to say, "Hey, I actually don't like being kissed hello/goodbye."

As said elsewhere, voluntary intoxication is not a defense to a crime. However, intoxication can undermine the case for showing what's called "specific intent," where that intent is an element of a crime. So, if somebody gets blacking-out drunk and fires off a pistol, and several rounds come close to hitting you, that…

A DA is a district attorney and the prosecutor. A defense attorney is never called a DA.

The problem with bullshit is not that it's phrased wrong.

Since the USDA and FDA have been regulating what you eat for decades? You may object to that role, but regulating food quality, content, and packaging has been happening for a very long time.

I'm pro-legalization, but I wouldn't have a problem with this. Yes, I realize that parents are responsible for monitoring what their kids get. But we also don't make Vicodin sodas or morphine candy that are designed to emulate popular non-drug products. The only popular legal drug that looks like a regular consumer…

I wish his movie-sux-dar had been working before they made Ghostbusters 2.