It looks like they are opening some schools next week, but uncertainty is still high. Wishing the best to your friend and her family!

Listen, I’m not sugarcoating Katrina when I say that this, not that, will be our ultimate historical embarrasment for disaster relief.

I haven’t seen this reported on yet: Puerto Rico is the manufacturer of like 70% of medications/prescriptions for the US. Hospitals are currently in DIRE situations for their patients to the point that they have to start selecting who gets drugs and who doesn’t.

That 43% refers to the amount of electricity being generated, not the percentage of homes and buildings with electrical power. I’d say it’s closer to 15%-18%, since the last times we went to bring supplies to a few towns in the center of our island they were completely without electricity. Stats are being manipulated…

James Bridle has some excellent questions and suggestions on what might be going on here over at Medium - https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-internet-c39c471271d2

As a parent who has literally thrown their phone across the restaurant because their kid seemed to be watching a normal Peppa Pig video that turned violent...

The conspiracy site Vigilant Citizen was the first place I ever heard about this messed up shit:

I thought it was probably true but was genuinely disappointed to hear that yet another funny, seemingly-not-stupid man was a perv. After the scene on his show where he forcibly kisses his female friend and tries to drag her into his bedroom to “get something started,” after she repeatedly says she is not interested in…

Jimmy Kimmel has been using his monologue every night this week to promote Obamacare sign-ups through satirical “commercials” for “Trumpcare” since Trump cut the entire advertising budget for open enrollment. And it’s been working: enrollment is up several hundred thousand from last year.

Customer service = quadruple Oscars.

This is everything.

It hit home for me when Trump was elected + coverage of his accusations how little men/society are able to view sexual violence as violence

Right? 20 people are shot and we dim the lights and Hallelujah is plucked out on the harpsichord and the brave late-show host stands up with one tear glinting in his eye and solemnly reports the news and, while choked on a sob, tells the nation that we should be better than this. (And we really should be! No arguments…

omg this is amazing

And you know, in fact, at this point, now that I think about it, all the women in Hollywood should win double Oscars for acting like all the men were cool all along. Every single one of them. This sh*t is insane.

While part of me wanted to be skeptical of Jordan Klepper (another white guy comedian doing political satire, cool), I’ve actually been impressed. This piece was on the nose.

Not to nitpick, but 2017 minus 1996 does not equal almost 30. DON’T MAKE ME FEEL OLDER AND CLOSER TO DEATH THAN I AM.

No, see here’s the thing. When you have power in a workplace and you “ask to consensually masturbate” someone can’t actually give proper consent because they risk losing their job if they say no.

The fact that NPR was able to drag up a Gawker article about Louis CK makes this all the more interesting. Louis CK is basically becoming the Weinstein case for comedians. How many knew? How many did nothing about it?

The exception is Last Week Tonight, where all John Oliver does is tackle hard to talk about subjects and tries to follow them up with his own brand of comedy.