I wanted to comment on the financial aspects of this. The calculation you should do before you move out on your own is 30%. You should not pay more than 30% on rent. Even if you run the numbers and you think you can make it paying 50%, don't! The unexpected expenses, car repair, medical bills, wanting to buy a sofa…

It also ignores the central truth of this era: RENT IS TOO DAMN HIGH

People do and say strange things in the middle of a crisis. They just do. We like to think that the things they say illuminate their characters in a moment of perfect clarity, so we finally point to them and know without a doubt they are horrible, terrible people. Because it's so comforting to know that we can…

I'm not going to hold teenagers accountable for an untenable situation.

I'm unstarring your comment because the state police don't do a good job of investigating or prosecuting rape either.

What the poster is saying is that there are no real benefits to reporting, it's not Jackie's fault, it's not her friends' fault, but that is the reality, and pretending that some good can come of it is ignoring reality. The onus on getting a better outcome for Jackie is not on her friends', it's on the college, the…

So, who were you accusing of lying?

I think you're right. If it were even 70 percent possible that the rapists would be punished appropriately, I'd would personally wish (to myself, not out loud to a victim) the victim would report, but the rates of conviction are so abysmal and the chances of the victim being harmed further throughout the process so…

So, you can believe that a woman was punched in the face, gang-raped for three hours, but not that the rapists were said some shitty things, too? Really.

I hate you most of all. And no, you don't feel for her at all, or give a shit that colleges are hot beds (nice, asshole) of sexual assault. If you did, you'd be more concerned that an 18 year old woman, who was gang-raped, was not assisted through the process, which has been characterized as totally lacking, rather…

I loved how good all the actors were in Pitch Perfect.

What do you think these inevitable suits result in? Besides having to Uber having to pay? Do you think they will just chalk it up to the cost of doing business? Do you think the public will? Because historically that is not the case.

Yes they are. They build or use facilities that meet state and federal regulations and they purchase and provide equipment that meets state and federal regulations and they carry insurance to cover claims and they cannot absolve themselves of the risk if they hire a known rapist or other criminal offender.

What risk is the consumer absorbing in gyms? The only consumer risk is whether to use the equipment or not. They are not assuming the risk of whether the facilities or the equipment are safe to use, or the risk of whether the employees they encounter will harm them. Those are risks that are absorbed by the company.

The bureaucracy involved in taxi companies is the remove the risk from the user and place it where it belongs, with the company. What Uber is doing is off-loading ALL the risk to the consumer. That's how it makes money and why rides are cheaper. It's a completely unsustainable business model.

Is that yours? It's excellent!

I've been thinking about the heifer thing, and the reason why I don't object to it. It doesn't feel like an insult to other someone, or to shame them. It feels like a warning from people within your same group that you have stepped out of line.

I've been thinking about the heifer thing, and the reason why I don't object to it. It doesn't feel like an insult to other someone, or to shame them. It feels like a warning from people within your same group that you have stepped out of line.

Wasn't it Gawker who did a story on visiting a KKK group? It turned out they were powerless and pathetic.

Praying doesn't solve problems, especially medical ones. But to illustrate: Let's take poverty. If you are a humanist working to solve poverty one of the foundations of that would be reproductive rights and access to abortion, because control of reproduction is a key element to economic freedom, and you would be…