Good for her - she’s hilarious and definitely too good for the current iteration of TDS.

Big mistake, snooty fashion people. Huge.

In which act does the dildo go off? 🙂

“Men are afraid women will take their canoe paddles. Women are afraid of losing their spirituality.”

I’m actually going back through primary coverage from 2007 and 2008 and I’m curious to see how much of that comes up. Right now, mid-2007, I’m mainly surprised to see that John Edwards was still running for so long. It really was an eternity ago.

The thing that got him into Stanford was his speed in the pool. Had they actually taught him anything beyond athletic prowess, this possibly wouldn’t have happened. See Baylor Universities brand of Athletic Moral Compass.

Lets be honest, it was probably dad’s cash that got him in. Those post-swim-practice Ribeyes dont buy themselves after all. Dads just pissed his investment didnt pan out.

Agreed. That’s a clear usage in the sense of “an action taken.” Which doesn’t make any of this any better of course.

No problem with him being on his kid’s side. Kind of a huge problem with him ISSUING A STATEMENT when his kid just got a criminally lenient sentence. Just shut the fuck up, let your kid serve his six months, and be grateful the world still revolves around privileged white guys.

“Never will he be his happy go rapey self again”

My parents love me. They will love me no matter what. They would come visit me in jail. They would not defend me raping somebody.

The father is saying that he should not be imprisoned for only getting “20 minutes of action.”

“and that he will “never be his happy go lucky self [sic]” again.”

I could list about ten artists that sound like this - mostly from the UK, but a few from Scandinavia - but I will admit, she has a great production value. She knows where to edit down, she knows where to cut, and where to layer. And she sounds professional. Not unique. Not for shit. But professional.

I totally agree. I pictured her running out of the office in tears or in rage. I like precision in language (my profession) and often criticize here for the lack of copyediting and fact-checking, but holding the author responsible for the language used by the sources in the story she was reporting on was a really…

The DOJ might have called it rape in the case. But they ciuldn’t likely charge him with it. In general crimes are charged were they are committed (crimes against humanity and war crimes being older exceptions) but a few year back the US and some other countries entered into agreement to charge their own citizens if…

Muhammad Ali’s death has no place in a dirt bag.

It’s funny because when you click the “first self-made” link, the article states YOUNGEST self-made female billionaire in the very first sentence (also note that nowhere does the linked article state “first self-made female billionaire”). I wonder if these bloggers are trolling us readers with obvious errors or if…

You’re welcome. On the issue of reporting Brazilian news, specially the current ones, I would reccomend two people. One I just found right here, a Jezebel reader who wrote a much more complete article on this rape case on her Kinja blog, and is currently in Rio de Janeiro:

Exactly. In Oregon all of out liquor stores are state controlled, but if you want knowledge they are night and day different.