What's crazy is that they let this go on for months at Jezebel, but the moment it hit Gawker they shut down the commenting system completely so that no one would have to see them.

There are a ton of easy solutions to this problem. Eliminating gifs, allowing commenters to flag a comment and make the image unseeable until approved by a mod, making the gifs blurred or grey until you click on them, setting a 30 day time limit before burners can post gifs and banning IPs on occasion.

Hey. I like that you emailed Denton. Do you think that if we all started emailing Denton every time a porn gif got posted instead of help or mods or whatever, he might start taking the issue seriously? I think a few hundred emails every day might help him get the message.

I starred this purely for the username/content irony.

I am of two minds on this. It is a really ironic form of expressing piety. Specifically because on the receipt it says, "Praying in public." It's literally rewarding you for violating a commandment. It's just one more thing that buys into the embattled mindset that "they've taken God out of our schools and…

There are lots of date rape songs in country music. They call them "Love Songs."

This is amazing. He photocopied his junk. That's old school sexting right there. In relationships: a douchebag. In douchebaggery: a pioneer.

Right. He's not sorry about what he said. He's sorry you "misunderstood" what he said by thinking that his words kept their normal meanings. And he's sorry that there are consequences for his actions.

I'm a minister, and on this particular issue, my views fall more in line with the Satanic Temple than with the Supreme Court ruling.

Because blaming Title IX for the funding choices that colleges make depends on the belief that women's sports don't deserve equal treatment. Title IX has added significant opportunities for women (and men's participation has increased during its tenure as well), but there is a limited amount of funding for college…

Probably not. But "Myth debunkers" rarely have enough actual things to fill out a book, so they dredge the barrel. "Did you know that having a hand bigger than your face doesn't actually mean you'll get cancer? It's just an excuse for people to hit you in the face! The more you know, right?"

You're right. From reading the article, you can tell that the foie gras is kind of useless, that's why they're passing it out on crackers to people in line. Food banks run into this stuff all the time. When I worked at a food bank, we had a whole collection of things that people had sent that were fairly useless for…

Thanks for asking. It's been really intense. Lots of crying. I'm just trying to focus on business now so that we don't just pass stuff because we're tired. And the twitter trolling is insane. Hope your partner's ok too.

also a minor note, it passed with 71% of the vote! not 79%. Here's a link: http://pres-outlook.org/2014/06/pcusa-…

Yes, by a significant, though declining margin.

Also Presbyterian here at the assembly. The authoritative interpretation which takes effect immediately will allow pastors to perform marriages in places where it is legal. The change to the Directory for Worship, which requires the ratification of the presbyteries, will also allow pastors laboring in places where it…

Or the endless scrolling through multicolored zigzagging slashes so that your wish will be granted.

I would star this a million times. That song is awful for like a million reasons, and I cant believe that radio stations played that domestic abuse anthem.

I'm always happy to dive down an internet wormhole.

I live in Texas. I don't have any experience. But everything I've read seems to imply that statute 46.02 would apply to any sword longer than 6 inches long, and therefore open carry of a machete (assuming the courts found it to be a weapon and not a garden tool or something) would be illegal unless you are on your own…