I’m awful at parties, too.

Swift is hailed as a genius for “A Modest Proposal” - but what if we find out someday he actually DID roast a little Irish child for dinner ? 

Refreshing when trolls admit they’re just trolling.

I love that it gets mostly 2 and 3 star reviews.

Not sure if that’s the copy, but there was one posted that stated in the description “All proceeds from this book will go towards promoting national socialist ideals”.

I’m completely unaware of the author, but my initial reaction to this article is that I’m not down with Amazon 451'ing books. If the works are fiction or do not target an individual, should they be pulled?

There’s an op-ed in the NYT that completely disagrees with you.

She was legitimately losing.  That’s so unfair to Osaka to say otherwise.  

Nope. The coaching exchange came very early on in the second set. Serena busted her racket in anger only when Naomi broke her serve — beat Serena to win the game in which Serena was serving — in the fifth game of the second set. And only THEN did the official penalize her a point.

I have not enjoyed this controversy because I have ended up agreeing with a lot of unpleasant people.

The irony of Serena partisans playing the race and gender cards to distract from and undermine the historic accomplishment of a black woman should be lost on no one. 

Martina Navratilova’s take is far more thoughtful and measured, with this point at the heart of it:

Okay, and here’s all the times he did penalize them:

Her bringing up her child was all the proof I needed that she probably WAS cheating. I’ve never heard an innocent person pull that emotional non sequitur out of thin air as quickly as Serena did.

There has been several articles about Naomi. But to your point it’s a small fraction of all the other drama.

The NYT has a couple of good articles about Osaka and her life.

This is what drives me partially nuts here. It’s not even the active ignoring of Osaka and the amazing thing she accomplished, but the seeming complaint how Ramos’s actions somehow stole the attention from her.

This is a really important point. She is a mother. Have any of you known a mother who cheated? So Serena obviously was not cheating.

The umpire was a dick, but he’s a pretty consistent dick (to the great men’s players as well), and Serena came back to yell at him about the same issue 3 separate times before calling out the tournament umpire and WTA ref. What was she hoping to gain? If a basketball or football player went off on a ref because of an…

King saw a woman realizing how unfairly she was being treated in comparison to her male colleagues and then refusing to accept that treatment