Very precise comment, I appreciate the science.

Large donors will smile oleaginously and make it possible. You need to jack the price up a whole lot higher.

She was eat-negative. I've never met one myself.

I agree. I think my mother had some odd ideas about sexuality in general and especially about homosexuality. Not the usual ones though, there wasn't the moral disapproval or anything from a bible, more a kind of late Victorian prudery and fascination and seeing advances everywhere. For example, from her female…

I hear it, it's nice, but more often people just know it's okay, because it first happens after already friends. Asking is for people who've just met and have special enthusiasm.

Oh, they're just cracking around. But I agree, this article is a cut above the usual.

So the action is like the Yes Men, but with implicit consent.

The Q&A makes Hefner look really good. It seamlessly integrates the message of respect with the 1000's of encounters without seeming parodic. That's an achievement. Indeed, it gives him a road map to the high road, and all he needs to hire the writer to totally capitalize on it.

A friend of my mother was raped by a stranger who broke into her home. She enjoyed it, or partly did (I only qualify it because I can hardly believe it) as she described it to my mother and my mother reported it to me. But it was rape. She didn't agree to it. She prosecuted and the man went to jail. The man was black.…

It's a mistake based on a lazy algorithm, not intention. Using someone's image for advertising without their consent is the real source of the problem. It is bound to lead to situations like this.

we have removed the ad and permanently deleted the advertiser's account

That is grim. People are so used to thinking of everything in childhood as both innocent and reversible, but then you come across a child who exhibits a deep pathology from early on and your constructions are out the window. The fact of childhood makes life difficult for theorists of liberty.

It is likely to be a form of satire, given the reputation of Sarah Silverman. The Onion is worse. They once advocated sending children dead ant farms to teach them that life is not all fun and goodies. What is the social utility of that, one might ask.

It's hard for me to argue against you, with some of these horrible crimes.

That's why the video is so interesting. I take it you're not so big on the 2nd amendment? I can understand that. How do you feel about racial profiling, another hot button topic? Maybe keeping guns out of neighborhoods based on race is the kindest idea anyone's had this year. Or maybe if everyone's armed it'll be a…

I would like to know more about this case. It is possible that we're just being told part of the story. It's quoted from the plaintiff's complaint, written by his lawyer, and neither Gawker nor Alternet have dug any deeper. Perhaps we could at least hear some more about the circumstances. It might be aggravated…

I was thinking that it's their job to disagree with each other, so for any issue you can at least find a matched pair, one for and one against. Whereas cops tend to stick up for each other :-)

But everyone knows these facts you cite. That's why there's so much tension on that subject in the USA. It all emanates from the fear of the young black male. And that's why the video is so funny. Otherwise you go crazy from the contradictions we see all around us every day.

Sometimes the trolls stimulate really interesting discussions. It puts the others on their game. It only works if they are more or less polite, though, or at least stay within some kind of bounds. So then maybe it's not quite a true troll, but just someone with jarring, insensitive opinions, sincerely held, who likes…

Which lawyer? There's one on each side.