This. I don’t like the idea of this kind of comparison. They are each good at what they do. Let’s not pit two women against each other this way.

Yeah, I don’t get it. She clearly likes him so what is with all of the funkiness? I think that his awkwardness is charming.

This. When you’re amazing people, you get let off the leash, but once you’re no longer amazing, the leash comes back and is way shorter than you remember.

I agree. Let’s not forget, an Egyptian judoka was sent home for refusing to shake hands with his Israeli opponent. On the flip side, it awarded medals to the two runners who collided on the track. For all of its flaws, the IOC does take sportsmanship seriously. That Hope Solo made these comments during the Olympics…

Is Hope Solo really a hill worth dying on Jez?

Hope isn’t being suspended or released because of the Sweden comment. Rather, she’s being released because she’s been given slaps on the wrist over and over again because, up to this point, she was valuable to U.S. Soccer. But she is no longer the goalie she once was.

Has anyone ever had to take disability leave? I have chronic DVTs that are disabling, and I went to see my doctor this week and he said I can’t work for a while—like six months. He also said that it may be that I can’t go back at all.

I’m so sad. I have good disability insurance (although I’m still worried about it…

Seems to me a post explaining things would have rather solved the issue.

Probably because we’re all discovering it at different times.

Yes. Yes, we are.

The KinjaHelp Twitter said they’re merging follow lists, so for instance if you were already followed by one of the Jez subblogs, now you’re followed by all of them, and same for Deadspin, Gizmodo, etc

So sadly correct. I may not get suspended without pay if I weigh in too heavy as an airline’s stewardess, but no male coworkers or managers will take my input seriously unless it gets recycled and spat out through the mouth of a man, however less senior than me. I’m constantly ignored and undermined by my male bosses…

Thank god I’m a librarian. The day they enforce a ban on Easy Spirit shoes and threadbare cardigans is the day I turn in my retirement papers.

I’m so glad I don’t have to work in a restaurant. In my line of work, people only feel entitled to comment on my hair, my weight, my voice, my nail polish, my make-up, my clothes, my shoes...but they can’t fire me for it.

The track had a slight current.

You are not wrong.

These items were first show in 2003.

@NerD:blogOtaku: Why would you say this? We're you not entertained? WE'RE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?

@hdgotham (Hannah Wilson): I love thinking about this. And you're right, history was a really unshaven, unsanitary, smelly place, but Damn, did they know how to party!

I've long felt that when people try and imagine history they never picture it with enough colors. Or smells. History really stank.