The cartoon isn’t accurate. “What about my legs” is a faulty analogy.

Nah. It’s a simple rhetorical relationship, not really arguable at all. Nobody was declaring that all lives matter before Black Lives Matter became a thing. Along comes Black Lives Matter. It’s obviously a claim that they don’t, enough. People suddenly feel the need to declare that all lives matter, which is safe…

you overlook the key rhetorical feature of this question. Black Lives Matter is an assertion. It came first. All Lives Matter is a counterassertion; it doesn’t exist without Black Lives Matter. Anyone who said that all lives matter before Black Lives Matter existed would just be saying something about lives. But…

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Every April 16 is National Horny Day if you’re married.

You continue to underestimate her, and her people. Mocking their names won’t prevent them from using their power as they like. Assuming she (or her speechwriters) are illiterate dork hypocrites is not a strategy for victory. Pointing out their wrongness with memes is what the U.S. does now instead of voting.

States of the confederacy—not even new states—could have chosen to ban slavery at any time. They didn’t, of course, but they had that power. That’s choice. It’s a stupid analogy aimed at a room full of people living in perfectly aligned stupidity, but it is not wrong to say that states of the confederacy did not have…

I feel weird, because I’m about to defend Betsy Devos, but...according to that quote, Devos referred to a “slave state’s” right to choose. Not a slave. The states of the confederacy (and the rest) did have the right to choose whether they’d be a slave state or not. (some regions within those states did not support the…

I read that they’re also going to jail preachers for refusing to officiate at the man-dog weddings Elizabeth Warren is going to encourage. If that happens, it’s going to be rowdy. Librarians will plain shank the shit out of those preachers. Probably in the entree line on Taco Night.

I propose a new editorial policy at Jezebel: I think you should not declare, uncritically or unironically, that dispensing Plan B conflicts with anybody’s religious beliefs. Plan B does indeed conflict with some people’s political beliefs, though it would be more accurate to say that Plan B is a convenient component…

umm...that’s how turtles swim. May be mesmerizing but it isn’t surprising.

yeah, sure, great. But do you have a boyfriend?

Not new. See Cousy, Bob. 

To be precise, the problem is not the prepositional phrase ‘with a minor.’ Sexual Misconduct with a Minor is the charge. There’s no such charge as ‘Sexual Misconduct.’ The title of the charge is a proper noun, but we can’t tell because of the init caps style in that hed. Blame Gutenberg, who streamlined punctuation…

OK, it looks like he was fishing out of Montauk, NY. Spearfishing with or without spearguns is legal for stripers there, as long as you comply with the state regulations for each fish species.

Massachusetts (cape cod, basically) is the place where the largest striped bass are found, though they are also found in the other states from North Carolina to Maine and the Maritimes).

OK, hang on. Scalia was a lawyer, which means he has to do the best possible job for his clients. If we criticize him for doing that we can’t complain when somebody gets attacked for serving as a public defender for a rapist or a serial killer. Really, I’m pretty sure there are other grounds for criticizing a man than…

I’m late to the story. Is the tweet above the primary evidence for her racism? because it’s a bit ambiguous. Leads to another question. If you’re challenged as a racist, should your replies to such charges be treated as unsolicited statements? Seems to me those replies occur under a kind of duress, a rhetorical…

he was WAY out of the basepath. That on the other hand would be a shitty way to lose the hit that broke up the no-hitter. So many unwritten rules...we should write them down someplace.

throw was right on.