The North should secede and the world can bask in the fantastic irony of it all.

Really? We have a famously lax one-way extradition treaty. I would've thought it would be much easier to ship him from here (the UK) to the states than from Sweden.

Some days I really do struggle to believe that there are people out there who think men are oppressed by society.

Does she know? It seems like the kind of thing parents might leave out when retelling the romantic story of how they met.

Agreed in that respect.

This guy is a fucking boss.

As far as I can see, it was produced by a media firm with no connection to Eminem (other than being commissioned by the record company which may not have been Eminem's own label; the wiki lists three different companies as producing the particular album), directed by someone who wasn't Eminem, and with a story that…

It's not impossible for him to have not known that Eminem has beaten women in the past. I knew there was stuff about violence against women in his lyrics, but I didn't know he'd actually done it until you'd mentioned it just now.

I was thinking about this. My brother sent me the link when the story first broke and I checked out some of their stuff, it's pretty sweet. But I did think it could conceivably affect her vocals.

What I love is when people claim that they have the right to free speech/an opinion if you insult them over their offensive speech/opinions. Right, you're free to have offensive opinions; but by the same token, I'm also free to have (and verbalise) the opinion that holding such opinions makes you a cretinous moron.

On the plus side, his honesty is refreshing. It's almost nice to occasionally be reminded that literally all homophobia stems from people thinking gay sex is gross.

People are products of their experiences. The question is not so much "why is she so angry?" but "why is the world in such a state that the people who live in it can be so (justifiably) angry?" It would be simpler if we could dismiss her responses as an overreaction (and many people do), but from reading the…

Legalise guns... but only for women.

Nobody is harassing Jones. She chose to bring it up in an interview, which both the quoted articles seem to source their information from.

Zuma is an asshole. And I don't like this whole "you must respect the leader of your country!" nonsense. Why should I?

In this case, no. Evolutionary psychology is full of crap like this.

Cheers. I actually go on io9 a lot and I've seen that study, I just appear to have forgotten about it. It's nice to be (re)vindicated.

I'd be curious to see whether the relative mortality rates between obese people and thin people was really due to the amount of fat the people carried, or if you instead separated people into the categories of "gets lots of exercise and has a good diet" and "doesn't do either of those things", you'd find that both of…

Only 90%?

Maybe America should rethink its whole policy towards high school and college sport? Creating a bunch of highly entitled young athletes, who become famous and admired throughout their town/city at the age of 16 isn't necessarily going to turn them into wonderful, responsible people. Televising high school…