Florida State was dropping the ball like the Tallahassee Police Department drops charges

And that pie look delicious.

This is my favorite shade of the year. Martha is fucking hilarious.

Totally. I mean he said this: "We cannot have a society in which some dictator someplace can start imposing censorship here in the United States." Some dictator someplace. I absolutely love that Obama is describing the Supreme Leader of the People's Democratic Republic of North Korea as 'some dictator someplace.'…

What he's basically saying to her is "shut up and just make music." She's in no way diluting anything about her art by saying things people would rather not hear. She's just disrupting their mindless consumption of it.

totally fair. i'm the head of an educational group on my university campus and reclaiming slurs is a huge conversation we have, everyone jumping on me saying it's a cut and dry issue is a big naive I think. I really agree with a lot of your comment, and I am really appreciative of the kind reply. many people were very…

just one quick thing, I think when people talk about the homophobia it's often a bit of bi-erasure coming up. she's openly bisexual and while there is a conversation to be had about people in the queer community using queer slurs it's a conversation between queer people. like the n-word. so maybe reconsider the "fag"…

I agree. It's hard for me to take people seriously on the big issues when they get super caught up in the trivial stuff. She is making some GREAT points about the industry in this interview in particular but sometimes I want to be like "YOU NEED TO CHILL OUT!!"

I work in a bar in Flatiron that has a strict No-Santas-Ever policy. It's a nice bar with a mostly-nice clientele, but it's pretty pricey and in a fairly trust-fundy area, so we've gotta deal with a lot of entitlement on any given night. Our general ethos is "no matter what, try to make people happy", which can get…

So. That's what Cindy Lou Who looks like today.

I know people who travel to NYC for this and I actively judge them for it. Talk about being THE WORST kind of tourist you could possibly be.

Now you're just being obtuse.

Um, what?

As a white person, I can say that this result is because most white people view racist actions as nothing short of being in the KKK. They don't think the Michael Brown incident had anything to do with race because they don't view subtle discrimination ingrained over the span of a person's whole life as racism. It's…

No, I get what you mean. And yes, I think you do need a certain amount of arrogance to be good at anything - writing included. I guess I just saw your post as implying that cis writers telling the stories of trans people was not only arrogant, but that you were also saying that they couldn't do it well, and that's…

It does, actually. But, we have to. It's just what's right, and it's long overdue.

AND, even if the person is found "not guilty," that doesn't mean "innocent." That's why I hate the whole "THEY'RE INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY!" crowd. No, they're not guilty until proven guilty as far as the law goes. Particularly once they've been arrested - you're NOT considered innocent, or else we wouldn't be…

It sounds like he's asserting that statutes of limitations should not only be a legal concept, but a moral one as well. Which is technically not defending Bill Cosby, or at least, not his crimes, but rather, defending his perceived right to not be embarrassed years after the fact. Which is ridiculous. Perhaps if he…

I'm one of those guys who Jez commenters would get mad at for saying something, like "let's wait til we have more information." I just don't say it, because I don't like arguing on the internet.

then they should have reported it then — not a generation later