Sorry, but she is actively promoting and supporting the expansion of authoritarianism in Hong Kong. She chose to make those public statements, she wasn’t asked to.

That’s a good point actually, although I think general audiences are probably more savvy to the differences than they’ve ever been, I still have conversations with friends who don’t understand the differences between DC and Marvel, or were wondering when Wolverine was going to turn up in Avengers (before the Fox…

This is just so sad. I just think of her little guy floating out there by himself for hours. I kind of hope he didn’t see anything - this is so traumatic already, that for him to have that memory of his mother injuring herself, or drowning would be too much for his young psyche. I saw that she had posted a pic of the…

The literal trappings, aesthetic, and general “window dressing” of the thing looks bizarre to my eyes—but given that I’m Cuban-American and was raised in Miami, which means I grew up going to quince parties, the whole underlying thing of “hey let’s play-act selling our kid at market” is not altogether that shocking to…

I think a lot of bigoted Gender Critical dogma isn’t even registered as dogmatic/essentialist by the people consuming it. It stokes the fires of some fear and then starts to make a little sense, and then a little more, etc...I have read a lot of it and could see how easy you could get sucked in . (I’m very much a…

I don’t know if it’s my computer or what, but it seems like the comments don’t even show up for me about 9 times out of 10.

I just got up and the sight of his face gave me a dry heave. But the good news is I’M CANCER FREE! But apparently gray again for some reason, oh well, can’t have everything!

Yeah I’ve been sort of following from a distance and it seemed shaky at best from the start for someone close to my age (I’m just a few years younger) to be doing this even if it WAS justified. Now... yikes. She looks so bad for this. Acting like she was doing some kind of public service for calling out what seems…

Any excavation of archaeological remains outside of the rigorous standards of the discipline can be considered looting, even when the person owns the land. These people do not dig in carefully controlled layers within designated, geo-located grids following established methods. Because of this, any important…

I’ve heard that the passenger harassment tends to a lot worse in first class than coach. True or not? I fly a fair amount, though almost always in coach, and I don’t think I’ve ever witnessed that kind of behavior back in economy. But I can imagine it up front. 

You have the correct take here and the commentariat at Splinter has lost their goddamn minds.

Good to know that is how statistics work...

She doesn’t own it, she has a licensing deal.

I know it’s a lot to ask someone like Bill Clinton to be self-reflective. He connected to ordinary Americans in large part because he’s not. However, he had to know the question was coming. Why not just have a PR person write something reasonable like, “At the time, I’d deluded myself into thinking it was truly…

Not to be too awkward on this but the situations are slightly different.

Ivelisse Rodriguez! Carmen Maria Machado (who is written about in this article) is also wonderful. Will try to think of more.

Worked on a plan for a children’s museum in China, and we had to design in big open areas and tons of seating for the crowds—not because of their inherently large population, but because we were told that each one child would be accompanied by a herd of doting adults. Eye-opening, to be sure.

I am extra glad I do not live in Texas. I’m stubborn, and would be the person who pulls the IV drips out and walks away while needing medical attention.

Oh come on -this is more than a little pedantic. Anyone with even a slight understanding of general relativity surely understands drag, terminal velocity, and can assume vacuum for the sake of this example.