I love their covers. So much awesomeness!

C'mon, Rigs, at least hold out for some beer!

Yup. O negative, CMV negative, perfect for newborns and vampires with discriminating palates. (CMV is a flu-like illness that most adults are exposed to at some point and isn't harmful to them, but can be serious for low birth weight babies.)

I think your eligibility to donate as a woman who's had sex with MSM (WSMSM?) may depend on how you answer other questions and/or may also depend on the organization collecting blood. I read a great answer to this question once on another Gawker-related blood but can't recall it precisely. Hopefully someone will come…

As someone who's short all over but has a super short torso, I hope low rise jeans stick around for a long time. Super ultra low rise jeans actually hit on my waist, whereas regular rise jeans pretty much come up to my armpits. I regularly wear pants to work with the waist rolled over and hope my shirt doesn't ride up…

I really wish there were more Alamo Drafthouse-like theaters out there. If I could be virtually guaranteed a decent moviegoing experience, I'd actually go to the movies.

Ooh, yes. And someone probably wears flannel and/or has sketchy facial hair. I can see that.

Rugged Escalator Individualism would be a good name for a band, though I have no idea what kind of band they'd be.

Good point about baggage!

Nope. I'm guessing this is mostly a city commuter thing (I've spent a fair amount of time flying through major airports and haven't seen these mythical escalator climbers), and the odds of me ever living in a city are pretty slim, so I'm probably not likely to ever infringe on anyone's commute and thus require…

I'm in my thirties and didn't know people climbed escalators until a few months ago. In all my life, I think I've seen it done less than half a dozen times. (And yes, you're right if you guessed I haven't lived in cities.)

Did anything else ever come out (unfortunate pun) about Kenny Chesney and the fraud bit? Has he dated anyone since Renee Zellweger? I don't follow country as closely as I used to (and his island schtick wore thing pretty quickly), so I have no idea what ever happened there.

Gotcha. Fair points, all of them.

I'm not sure what you're saying here. I personally don't think gonzo is the hot new trend, but I think it's what's most easily pirated and disseminated on free sites, and therefore what a lot of laypeople think of as representative when they think of professionally made porn.

Obvs. It's not like I have a PhD that I earned from a feminist-identified program that involved doing academic research on this very topic or anything.

I haven't yet run across research (and I've looked long and hard for it, as it's relevant to my own research) that porn has gotten more violent. Anecdotally, what I've seen is a rise in gonzo porn (the kind that's cheap to make, as it only requires performers and a handheld camera). Gonzo porn tends to be a bit…

Are you familiar with Malamuth and Bridges' publishing history? They both have a broad body of work when it comes to pornography, and some of it shows that porn is not the bad guy. There really is more nuance to this issue than it seems you're willing to see.

I think it depends on the criteria you're using. A phone sex operator has a fair amount of anonymity and no physical contact with her customers. Anonymity and safety can be more valuable than financial security at times. I don't remember what particular documentary it was (perhaps After Porn Ends?), but I recall a…

You're citing a lot of older research in your comment. I don't have the time (or the desire) to argue research with you for the rest of the afternoon, but this is a topic I've researched extensively within the last few years. More recent shows that pornography does not make men (because that's the population the…

It continues to surprise me that this is the kid who went on to have a successful career and seems to be a generally decent, funny, happy dude. Who the hell would've predicted that?