Maybe explain that last line more about Rita? It sounds like a not-so-backhanded slap, and it smacks of punching down.

I think what needs to exist is a system that allows both objective, quantifiable data and language as well as a "comments" section that allows subjective comments. I understand the fear of litigation in such a system, but if you're not doing something fucked up or possibly illegal in the first place then you've got…

By and larch you're probably right.

You're so knotty!

You're just aspen for it.

Before you go in to buy one you should spruce up your appearance. Something tells me they don't sell these things to any ol' Tom, Dick or Jane.

Just leaf me alone.

Oh fir shit's sake.

I've been pining for one of those. I feel certain they'll be very poplar.

Can we stop calling these threats "trolling" though? Trolling is winding people up for the hell of it. It's seen as trivial and we're all kind of trained to brush it off. Rape/death threats aren't trolling they're threats.

This guy hacked a friend of mine. She wound up nationally humiliated. She won't tell us where she is and she is not healthy any longer. She wound up pleading no contest to something she didn't do because no one could help her.

AVClub had a first-hand story on what it's like to win Price is Right. Long story short, it's a pain in the fucking ass.

http://www.avclub.com/article/what-h…

There are taxes. My cousin Angie was on won Price Is Right about 20 yrs ago. My uncle flew his family to California for Spring Break because Colorado didn't have enough snow for good skiiing that year. She made it to the end and guessed within $100 and won both packages. She won carpet for an entire house, a white…

Hmmm...

Tortoise shell glasses and ascot included for the first 100 5th graders to sign up! Call now!

Could be a little of column A, little of column B. When I was a tiny little whateva, my mom was really politically active trying to get levies passed in our school district (which were needed badly! I have no idea if that is how you spell the plural of "levy") and back then, we were too poor for her to afford…

It'd be terrible if we thought of the issue as involving real people with real lives and real children.

You think that kid isn't afraid her dad might be deported without any intervention from 'activists'? Or do you merely object to her hoping to do something about it?

when I was a kid, I was quite precocious.

I agree with what you're saying, but eleven is old enough to understand some basics about her family's situation. Her fears about her father being deported are quite reasonable.