"When I first heard 'Wrecking Ball,' I thought it was a brilliant song. But the video distracts too much from it."

I'm all for pointing out cultural appropriation and calling out those who perpetrate it, but I fail to feel outrage over this video. I mean at least Taylor thinks that it's a dance equivalent to ballet and interpretive instead of going, "eww black girls shaking their asses, yuck". And if all the dancers were white,…

This was fascinating. It's so inspiring to know that there are genuinely good people out there in the world loving on those who are forgotten and abandoned. God bless you and your team!

His whole argument basically boils down to "there's no gay sex because I didn't want to put any in".

The (bottle) red-head hasn't done theater since childhood,

Seemed like unnecessary snark to me.

Whose past.

This. People aren't being respectful of the situation, and it's particularly tone deaf for Americans to be judgmental. Our culture of excess and egotism has been successfully exported worldwide, and our language is no danger of dying out.

"not letting a kid have an entirely harmless name ends up making a government look rather petty."

The government of a small nation state like Iceland has a responsibility to protect their culture and language.

Why give up on all .gifs? Just make it so that anonymous burners can't post gifs and only established accounts with a minimum number of recommended posts can. It's quite a good safety net and at least a ban will be worth more than it is now ...

There's a point to Kinja? Because it's failing miserably. Comments around here were 200x better a couple years ago. Old articles popping up make it all too obvious.

It was still a nice thing to do? If someone gave me $90, I would be happy, even if $90 was like nothing to them cause it's still a lot of money for me.

Did you seriously just say "don't some Roman Catholics get into flagellation?" as a comparison to BDSM spanking? Comparing what some people choose to view as their most sacred religious practice to what others view as their greatest sexual pleasure deviance? Why is it on this site that everyone's views must be…

Uhm, Enrique Iglesias is Spanish.

Enrique Iglesias is Spanish, not American. He can be considered a "US recording artist," as described in the Contact Music article since he records and performs a significant amount of his work in the states, but it's not the same as an "American performer," which implies nationality. Shakira would be a similar…

Except Enrique Iglesias is not American, he's Spanish

This is a very sensible and humane policy.

True story:

The original article actually says hospital staff will get special training from a social anthropologist for handling visitors. So I think they're making an effort to create an atmosphere that's more, "Hey, we're doing a regular-life thing here together," than, "We're devastated, let's get plastered." Probably easier…

Since when does being famous mean you give up freedom of speech?